Heeeey everyone, it's been a while, wut?
Long story short - I've been keeping up with my 30 days of new things plan but since none of those included active blogging I've been very poor at keeping up with that. It was a classic case of a couple days' notepad files getting lost and then my motivation tanked.
For those of you curious about what I've been doing recently:
August - Promise Loop. It's a thing my work does, essentially stating that you make a series of commitments every day to people, saying you'll get X done by Y time. The important part is it realizes not everything can be met as initially stated so you have the ability to renegotiate with whoever your 'requestor/client' is. Anyway, goal for this was to meet all promises I made for the month.
Adding it to my 30 day plan kept it in the front of my mind more and made me more aware of my actions. I have a habit of willy-nilly agreeing to everything as my first response and that's come back to bite me in the butt a couple of times recently. Enacting a proper promise loop made me think more about the time-frames I was agreeing to.
September - Spanish! With the help of a really cool app (it's free, too!) called Duolingo I practiced my Spanish daily. I'm not functionally fluent or anything but it was a very good refresher and helped get my basic grammar back down. I need to stop being lazy though and keep up with it daily, even if it's just for one lesson.
October - Back to the fitness with T25. From the same guy who made Beach Body Insanity and the company who put out P90X comes the new hotness in kicking my butt... T25! The premise is simple; 25 minutes of high intensity workouts five times a week.
This has been a fun month so far because I suckered Malia and Peter into doing this with me as well. It also helps to have the peer pressure to keep me going during the workouts; there have been times I wanted to just call it a day but I can't look like a sissy in front of other people, can I?
The workout itself is pretty great, too. My biggest issue with P90X was the required 70-90 minutes a day; it was just a huge time commitment. 25 minutes is much more manageable and they really cram the exercise in there. Where normal ones would have a couple of breaks and stuff, this just keeps you going at high intensity for the entire time. It's been about half a month on it and I've lost 4 pounds of my bad food pudge and my calves are looking quite well turned if I say so myself.
Going forward - I'm going to try and update this a bit more regularly again as I noticed I just pay more attention to the 'soft' 30 day things if I have a way to hold myself more accountable.
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