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<h2>Latest gomepost</h2>
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<h3>I love my new keyboard</h3>
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<time datetime='Fri, 21 Jul 2023 20:30:00 CDT'>21 Jul 2023, 8:30 PM</time>
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<p>My first mechanical one</p>
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<a class='journal-link' href='journal/goals-2.html'>
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<h3>New-year goals postmortem</h3>
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<time datetime='Wed, 9 Aug 2023 21:30:00 CDT'>9 Aug 2023, 9:30 PM</time>
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<p>How did that go?</p>
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<h1 id='title'>New-year goals postmortem</h1>
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<time datetime='Wed, 9 Aug 2023 21:30:00 CDT'>9 Aug 2023, 9:30 PM</time>
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<p>
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Back in January, I set some <a href='goals.html'>goals for the year</a>.
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Some of them I ended up dropping pretty quickly, especially those I wasn’t holding myself to daily.
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A few of them I pretty much just forgot about.
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On the other hand, I stuck with some of the daily habits for surprisingly long.
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That being said, I’ve since dropped off on most of those in the last few months.
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<figcaption>Photo credit: <a href='https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flower_field_-_De_Zilk.jpg#Licensing'>Joris</a></figcaption>
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Here’s an item-by-item breakdown of the list from <a href='goals.html'>the original post</a>:
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<h3>Idly using my phone less</h3>
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Before 2023, I used to use my phone last thing at night or first thing in the morning fairly often.
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I broke this habit enough. I still occasionally do it, but not so often that it really becomes a problem.
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Still, I have a ways to go before I’m using my phone as little as I’d like, ideally.
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<h3>Getting proactive about dental health</h3>
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I flossed regularly for a really long time.
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I was pretty pleased that I was able to go six months doing it consistently.
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Unfortunately, I got a nasty tangle in my most recent capsule of floss, so I just thought, “I don’t want to fix this tonight”, and didn’t.
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Then I went on a trip where I was busy enough to not want to bother with it.
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After that, I pretty much lost the habit.
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But I think if I just get some new floss I should be able to pick this one up again.
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Even with a lapse of a few weeks, if I finish the year with a steady flossing habit, I’d call that a win.
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<h3>Regular quiet time, where I mainly do nothing</h3>
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This one really didn’t pan out.
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During the day, for some reason, slowing down and doing nothing is the last thing I want to do.
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But it seems to help me feel a lot better when I do it.
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It’s kind of a mystery to me currently, but I don’t know how to get this one to stick.
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Maybe I need to put it at a consistent time of day, like “12:00–12:20 is always my quiet time, no matter what”.
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<h3>Working out regularly</h3>
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This one is going fine, actually.
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I definitely worked out less during the winter, but now that it’s nicer out, I have more energy and I can go outside.
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I go for runs, walks, & bike rides fairly regularly, and then I lift hand weights maybe once or twice a week.
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<h3>Regular journaling and recording of my daily activities</h3>
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Unfortunately, I don’t really journal anymore.
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I only did daily logs (short descriptions of my day) for a few weeks.
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I did journaling a few times a week for maybe a little longer.
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It seems like if I don’t keep a consistent streak going with it, I drop journaling habits pretty fast.
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Also, journaling on paper makes my hand hurt, cause I think faster than I can handwrite (I think faster than I can even talk).
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<h3>Various monthly and year-long goals, including reading a book monthly, learning 500 German vocab words, and identifying 50 trees</h3>
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One of my big lessons from these goals is that any goal with a scope larger than “daily” is actually really hard to keep sight of in the face of daily life!
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On the other hand, I have identified a number of trees with this great field guide I got, so that’s cool.
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But I totally forgot I was going to study German again.
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And I certainly haven’t read a book monthly.
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It’s possible I’ve started a book about once a month, though.
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I just end up doing most of my reading on the internet these days.
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I will say, I’ve dropped the habit of reading Twitter recently, which is promising.
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For a while, I actually got a lot of enjoyment out of Twitter and learned a lot from reading it, but it’s not the same for me anymore and it’s better that I drop it at this point.
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So maybe that will open up more room for me to read.
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</p><hr /><p>
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You may judge for yourself how my goals went, but in the end, I’m glad I tried to do them.
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I learned about what works and what doesn’t, I proved to myself I can hold habits longer than I thought, and all the positive things I did were worthwhile, even when I didn’t keep doing them.
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So with all this in mind, I’ve recently been thinking again about how I want to manage my priorities and time.
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My mom said the first & last hours of the day are really important for setting up the rest of the day well, so I might try to come up with a consistent routine of good habits for just those parts of the day.
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<h3>Side note: an idea for managing personal projects</h3>
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I’ve also thought about how to set myself up for success for future <a href='completion.html'>projects</a>, including things I want to do here on my gomesite.
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I think I need to set a limited amount of time to do a given project, and then budget out that time over a reasonable time span.
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Like, if I want to write some program, but I don’t want to sink too much time into it, I should decide up front that I’ll only spend, say, six hours on it.
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Then I can spread that time over a few evenings, commit to doing it for that limited scope, and reevaluate if I want to carry on at the end of it.
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It’s a more structured approach than I’m used to, but it might help me execute on more of my ideas.
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And the addition of structure certainly <a href='challenge.html'>helped me with writing</a> on my gomesite.
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How are your 2023 resolutions going?
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What projects or habits are you currently working on?
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What projects or habits have you recently dropped?
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Let me know your thoughts at my Ctrl-C email: <code>gome<span style='user-select: none;'> ​</span>@<span style='user-select: none;'> ​</span>ctrl-c.club</code>.
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Did you set any goals for 2023?
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What were they, and how are they going?
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Have you noticed yourself improving in depedability with age?
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Have you noticed yourself improving in dependability with age?
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Let me know your thoughts at my Ctrl-C email: <code>gome<span style='user-select: none;'> ​</span>@<span style='user-select: none;'> ​</span>ctrl-c.club</code>.
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