I’ve been reading the book “Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time” by Brigid Schulte. Somehow, despite some detailed descriptions of uber-busy life situations that made me feel stressed out, reading it has made me calmer.
Schulte brings up the concept of “contaminated time”--that even when people (women in particular) have leisure time, it’s often “contaminated” by thoughts of to-do lists, remembering other tasks, etc. Her point is that people live in overwhelm because they rarely get to relax during their leisure time. I have two questions for you all: 1) do you have “contaminated time” during work/leisure/both? 2) do you have times during work and/or leisure that feels “uncontaminated”?
Just as a reminder for format:
Topic
The past week’s goals report
The coming week’s goals
Allan Wilson:
write every day for one hour, and exercise every day.
2. Think about the project (ie the questions behind the spreadsheets).
Amstr:
1) 3-6 hours of work on D2B (some intro work; some polishing proposal chapter)
2) 1 hour on book proposal (reading/drafting/TOC)
3) exercise 5x
4) eat well (figure out a couple small, specific steps toward this)
Contingent Cassandra: (goals from week 3)
--Continue exercising (add weights); try to keep to regular sleep schedule
--Cook/freeze a pot or two of soup
--Figure out exactly what I need to do when for DH class; create 2 more exercises; begin work on demonstration items/exhibits and assignments.
--Submit proposal for talk on DH class if it's not too late.
--Finish dismembering tree & remove from apt.; other apt/garden work as possible.
--At least some work on finances.
Daisy: (goals from week 3)
1) Send paper A (easy goal for positive reinforcement)
2) Draft B
Earnest English:
-keep up the great Get Serious work with daily writing and weekly typing!
-grade a little each day (papers coming in Tuesday!)
-1 hour on scholarship: soon I'll have to do 2 or 3 hours to catch up
-get travel for upcoming conference all scheduled and done
-make food
-Artist Date on Wednesday???
-try to get out of the house each day unless it's actively snowing
-unpack boxes
-meditate/do yoga
Elizabeth Ann Mitchell: (goals from week 3)
1) Write 100 words at least 3 times during the week.
2) pack and prepare car for conference that begins Friday
3) prepare my moderator script for Saturday, by writing the bio for one speaker on Monday, another on Tuesday, another on Wednesday, and the last on Thursday
4) Monday, call to schedule one doctor’s appointment; Tuesday, call for another one; and on Wednesday, call for a third.
Good Enough Woman:
1) Help daughter get to the finish line with her presentation.
2) Draft central piece of the conference paper that I present on 2/13.
3) Track daily water, exercise, spending.
4) Do at least 7 minute of exercise (even if just stretching) every day.
Humming42:
1. Finish the conference paper and submit
2. Submit creative piece
3. Write every day
JaneB:
1) aquire or print out a calendar page and some coloured stickers, post them where I can see and use them to record my chain efforts
2) 5 minutes every day of house related stuff
3) 5 minutes every day of some kind of exercise
4) 2 lots of 30 minutes on Crunchier
Kjhaxton:
(1) Get the fabric cut because I need to buy more I think.
(2) transcribe the paper
(3) continue the progress of writing daily, perhaps with some blog posts rather than just comments (to be fair though, a lot of the TRQ tasks are pretty writing intensive and writing programme regulations seems to suck the creativity from anyone's fingers).
Matilda:
1) Week 3-2 of Belcher's book.
2) Review one important book. Try again.
3) Write the introductory part of the review article.
4) Exercise for 5 minutes everyday.
5) Have healty snacks, avoid unhealthy ones.
Susan:
1. Read two plays
2. Start the writing
3 Re-read one essay for prize competition, review essay for journal
4. Keep up on the slow de-clutter/garden plan
5. Walk 5 days
Thoughts on the topic: Both work and home time are “contaminated” time for me. The culture at my place is that one cannot say “no” to anything until after the tenure vote. Unfortunately, many of my projects have due dates within days of one another, so I can rarely concentrate on one project, but have to juggle four or five chainsaws at once. The constant worry that I will disappoint someone who will then vote against me, or say something negative in my tenure meeting, contaminates every waking moment. My only uncontaminated time is my ten minutes of meditation every morning.
ReplyDeleteLast week’s goals: 1) Write 100 words at least 3 times during the week. 3x the first week, 2x the second.
2) pack and prepare car for conference that begins Friday. That week, three snowstorms hit the Northeast US, with more than a foot of snow, making it impractical to drive. I was not surprised to find flying was too expensive, and actually might not have worked any better, with thousands of flights cancelled as well. No conference for me. :(
3) prepare my moderator script for Saturday, by writing the bio for one speaker on Monday, another on Tuesday, another on Wednesday, and the last on Thursday. I did get the bios written, and delivered to the back-up moderator.
4) Monday, call to schedule one doctor’s appointment; Tuesday, call for another one; and on Wednesday, call for a third. Only made one the first week, as several offices were closed due to storms. Made another the second week. One more to go.
Next week’s goals: 1) revise tenure documentation, which is due Tuesday.
2) Start writing March presentation, 100 words 4 times this week.
3) Make third doctor’s appointment.
4) Start meditating at night, in hopes of better sleep.
It sounds like you're making steady progress on the writing. That's good!
DeleteSorry the snow made you miss your conference. I've actually been hoping for a snow day or two (and even wrote some "wiggle room" days into my course calendars this time, after spending the Spring '14 semester constantly rewriting calendars), but so far all the storms have hit to our north. All we've gotten is cold rain, which is admittedly easier to deal with than snow in some ways, but. . . .
I am also sorry to hear about the missed conference (unless, in the end, missing it turned out to be a blessing in some way). With your other goals, you seem to be making steady progress, despite cross-contamination and stress! Evening meditation (and/or stretching?) sounds like a great idea!
DeleteI'm glad you got some writing done, and am sorry you missed your conference. (Though sometimes not being able to travel is a real gift.) Good luck finishing your tenure file. And I hope that soon you can have some respite from all the pressure. It's not fair to keep asking untenured people to do things when they don't think they can say no.
DeleteI wish you all the very best for the tenure process Elizabeth Anne. My thoughts are with you.
DeleteThat meditation time, even at only 10 minutes a day, sounds wonderful. It is very sobering to realise how few of us have much uncontaminated time. allan w
Topic: I, too, fell like much of my time is "contaminated." A 4/4 load into which I've incorporated one beyond-the-requirements teaching project means that when I'm trying to concentrate on one class/group of classes, I'm always worrying (or knowing) that I'm neglecting something crucial for the other group. Add to that the fact that I live in a studio apartment surrounded by various in-progress household projects, and it's easy to feel overwhelmed. With teaching prep, I have long found that writing detailed to-do lists (in a program that allows individual tasks to pop up only when they're due/nearly due) helps a good deal (though not, of course, when there are simply too few hours in the day/week); knowing that I know what I need to do, and more or less when I'll do it, alleviates anxiety, and gets the tasks off my mind. It's much harder to deal with household tasks I really should do, but that I can't find a way to schedule, when they're staring me in the face. There is, however, one kind of time that feels uncontaminated: when I'm walking. Even if I'm mulling over/remembering tasks, I feel like I'm doing something productive at the moment, and gaining perspective on the rest. Gardening mostly falls in this category as well (except that it has a way of generating mental to-do lists, and worry about when I can accomplish the tasks).
ReplyDeleteSo, I guess I should spend more time walking. But I knew that : )
Last two weeks' goals:
Delete--Continue exercising (add weights); try to keep to regular sleep schedule
--Cook/freeze a pot or two of soup
--Figure out exactly what I need to do when for DH class; create 2 more exercises; begin work on demonstration items/exhibits and assignments.
--Submit proposal for talk on DH class if it's not too late.
--Finish dismembering tree & remove from apt.; other apt/garden work as possible.
--At least some work on finances.
Accomplished: not as much as I'd like, especially considering these were the goals for a week ago, stretched over two, but I have made some progress on the DH class; submitted the DH proposal and had it accepted by the organizer for inclusion in the panel proposal (which still needs to be reviewed by the conference committee, but, given both the quality of the panel and how panel reviews for this conference usually work, I think it has a good chance of acceptance, which means that (1)I'm likely to have travel funding for this conference, and (2) I have a strong incentive/structure/deadline for being able to explain the DH experiment to an audience); walked twice (in the space of two weeks, so not so good) but not lifted weights; sleep has been variable (better this week than last); made two pots of soup (building on bases I had frozen, so, the easy way, but it'll do); dismembered tree and put in bags but haven't yet taken to garden; didn't work on finances.
The bottom line is that this semester is turning out to be as intense as I knew it would be. Add to that the fact that there are going to be few "normal" weeks (without extra days on campus for meetings, travel to conferences, etc., etc.), and you have a recipe for my feeling somewhat overwhelmed. All I can think of to do is to keep plowing ahead, and try to expect a reasonable amount -- not too much, but not too little, either -- of myself. Having the reminder that keeping up with TLQ activities like eating, sleeping, and exercising counts as progress, too, is definitely helping (as is thinking of the DH class and associated activities as TLQ as well as TRQ).
So, goals for the coming week:
1)Continue paying attention to sleep routine, exercise (walk at least once; lift weights at least once), and cooking healthy foods (freeze current pot soup; make another).
2)Do what's necessary (assignments, sample materials, logistics) to get students started on DH projects.
3)Do something (anything!) to make incremental progress on finances (at the very least, decide which of two spring professional trips I should use available travel money on).
You have a lot going on. Have you been doing DH for a long time? Are you self-trained in that area? Developing that curriculum while teaching for classes must be a real challenge! More walking sounds like a GREAT idea.
DeleteGood luck -- this all sounds pretty overwhelming, so I'm glad the DH class is working for two purposes. And good luck walking.
DeleteWalking is such a good thing for me too. I'm glad that keeping up with TLQ progress has been helpful.
DeleteTopic: yes I'd say both work and free time are contaminated by the other. At work, particularly when there are important family things to be done, it can be difficult to focus. Free time can be easily ruined by thinking of all the other things I'm not doing. As one of my students says, she can't get the things done because of all the things that she's not doing and she feels she should be doing. all. the. things.
ReplyDeleteLast Week:
(1) Get the fabric cut because I need to buy more I think.
Yes, done and I need another 2 metres - enough cut for 28 bags, need to make 40.
(2) transcribe the paper
No, no progress.
(3) continue the progress of writing daily, perhaps with some blog posts rather than just comments (to be fair though, a lot of the TRQ tasks are pretty writing intensive and writing programme regulations seems to suck the creativity from anyone's fingers).
Yes done, but largely through the TRQ stuff like prog regs, new lecture prep etc. I've read a lot of really cool stuff for the new lectures which has been useful.
This Week:
(1) Pin, press and hem the cut fabric.
(2) do something about the untranscribed paper
(3) writing daily
Pinning and pressing the material is the worst job, the visible seams need to look professional but I'm not used to working with synthetic fabric with glittery bits so fear it may go wrong (or I may end up covered in glittery bits).
I'm worrying less about the paper because I read another paper in the intended journal that was so weak on data and showed no clear effect. It was (presumably) accepted only by virtue of the quantity of theory woven in. And writing daily will continue.
I so know about not feeling able to work because of all the other things you need to do. Good luck with the sewing!
DeleteIt might work to put a time goal for your "do something," even if it's only 20 minutes.
DeleteI can totally relate to your student!
For me, I think the level of contamination depends upon the week. This week, there was a lot of contamination since when I needed to be working, I was also trying to acquire photos for daughter's presentation and sort out how to order prints of digital photos that I could pick up at our local store. Since I hadn't done the latter before, it was all very interruptive. And I had to interrupt other work time to shop for proper 4-H clothes for presentation day. Lately, it's been rather difficult to keep to my schedule, which contributes to the sense of contamination. Home time is also often contaminated, for which I feel much guilt, but I've been working on being more present at home. I'm not too bad, I don't think. But still.
ReplyDeleteDo I have uncontaminated time? Sometimes. I guess my grading time is often uncontaminated, but I'm not sure that makes me feel any greater joy doing it. I have a lot of uncontaminated time with the kids during vacations, and on Friday nights, and here and there. Occasionally, I get uncontaminated time for PhD work, and I need to seek out more of that.
But it is now confirmed that I will have sabbatical in fall, so I should have a LOT!
Last week's goals:
1) Help daughter get to the finish line with her presentation. YES. And she was great.
2) Draft central piece of the conference paper that I present on 2/13. SORT OF. I cut and pasted from a chapter, and now I have this week to cut out at least four pages while still adding necessary material.
3) Track daily water, exercise, spending. I tracked spending and exercise fairly well. Water is more difficult.
4) Do at least 7 minute of exercise (even if just stretching) every day. I think I missed about two days.
This week's goals:
1) The conference paper is not on the border between TRQ and TLQ. It would be easy to prioritize other things until Wednesday, but I want to make sure I don't do that, so I'm still listing it here. Finish paper by Wednesday night!
2) Track water/exercise/spending.
3) 7 minutes exercise everyday.
4) Ask husband for true amount of time I need to do work this week. Let go of guilt for time away from the family this week.
Good luck with the conference paper. I always find such deadlines helpful. I think naming the true amount of time you need is really helpful -- I'm inclined to be optimistic on such things, and then am overwhelmed when things take more time.
DeleteCONGRATULATIONS ON THE SABBATICAL!!! Woohoo! And congrats to the girl on her presentation!
DeleteMy husband was reminding me that I asked him for the time I needed right before exams--four days to write up my docs--the week he had to turn in his dissertation! He was a champ and finished his diss in the two days before the deadline. I hope the time negotiations are smooth and that the paper writing goes well.
I love the concept of contaminated time. And I think most of my time is contaminated. But if I walk, I often focus on the podcast I'm listening to, and am just there. And with anything -- work or leisure -- when I get there, I'm really there. But there's a lot of time when I'm settling in to work that is contaminated, or when I'm relaxing. The one thing I am pretty good at is being present when I'm with other people. I don't look at my phone, or check email, usually. I am really working on that -- even when I'm bored in meetings -- because it drives me nuts when others do it.
ReplyDeleteGoals for last week:
1. Read two plays NO -- started, but never finished
2. Start the writing YES, a little
3 Re-read one essay for prize competition, review essay for journal: Finished prize competition, but journal review not done
4. Keep up on the slow de-clutter/garden plan: yes -- I've managed to not accumulate a new frightening pile, by dealing with all the mail. And my pile of magazine reading has shrunk. I had one really good afternoon - a whole hour -- in the garden and got the whole walk weeded. I think a few more hours would get it all done.
5. Walk 5 days - 4 days. Weather, and laziness. But even the days I didn't walk, I did something -- some yoga, very heavy garden or house work, etc.
Reflection: There are real challenges with this chapter, and the subject is sufficiently complicated that I feel like it keeps wanting to escape. So I've now written the piece that will, I hope, frame how I'm corralling it. But (speaking of contaminated time) I got easily distracted by a number of things, all of which were professionally useful (i.e. writing an abstract for a conference) but which took my attention away from the chapter. I think I just need to allow for the time those things take.
I'm spending this week at my favorite library, surrounded by beautiful grounds and lots of colleagues, and a terrific collection. So I'll be picking people's brains about my work, and feeling connected as a scholar.
1. Read the ms. for the journal -- that review is due on the 16th, as the editorial management software reminds me.
2. Read primary sources at library
3. Get going on writing, expanding this chapter
4. Walk or other exercise daily -- given the gardens I'll be working in, the walks are inevitable. And one day, there will be yoga in the garden.
I like what you say about the transitions between kinds of time being contaminated. I find that, too. Congratulations on keeping walking and movement a priority.
DeleteI hope you have a wonderful week! Maybe a change of scenery and scholarly connection will work some magic on the chapter.
The library time sounds wonderful! As for transition times, I'm in one at this very moment!
DeleteUncontaminated time: When my kids were really small, I was studying for exams, and my husband was finishing his dissertation, I got really good at separating out my time. When I was with my kids, I was really with them. When I was working, I was really working. I have times--when I have one specific task, when I get into “flow” state--where my time is uncontaminated so much that I will be late picking up the kids, or I’ll miss a meeting. Much of the time, though, I have three zillion things on my mind, and I can’t decide what to do. Or whatever I’m doing is only in the foreground with other stuff going on in the background. I’d like to practice the skill of chunking my time so I can really focus.
ReplyDeleteLast week’s goals:
1) 3-6 hours of work on D2B (some intro work; some polishing proposal chapter)--½ hour while on a stationary bike, but I did get started
2) 1 hour on book proposal (reading/drafting/TOC)--½ hour
3) exercise 5x--6x! Joining a gym 2 blocks away turned out to be a really good thing.
4) eat well (figure out a couple small, specific steps toward this)--sort of. Girl Scout Cookies thwarted my plans. I did figure out my small, specific steps.
Wow, this past week is sort of a blur. I had some evenings out, I’ve been stretched in a lot of different directions, and I stalled out yesterday. I feel a lot of ambivalence about how I should be spending my time, so it makes me less effective overall. We’re leaving next Saturday for a big week-long trip, so my week will be a bit wrecked with planning and packing. Also, my poor daughter has been sick today--fever, sleeping all day, upset tummy. Fingers crossed the rest of us get it really soon or not at all!
Next week’s goals:
1) regular bedtime (between 10:30 and 11pm)
2) 1 hour or more on proposal chapter
3) ½ hour on proposal
4) exercise 4x
I like your description of flow state -- when I finally get into something, I'm really in it and not paying any attention to time. And it's great. But getting there is really hard. I'm glad you made some progress both on the chapter and the proposal. My experience is that when I'm just getting going I really can't concentrate, and then suddenly, I know what I'm doing and I just do it.
DeleteFingers crossed that the rest of you don't get the illness, and that your daughter recovers quickly!
DeleteHello!
ReplyDeleteMissed check-in last week, and I'm officially waving the white flag for this week and the next two. Last week was a lost one, got sick, stayed sick.. This one is lost in traveling for most of it, also a sick child. Next week is traveling for lab work, so also gone. All good travel (please let the snow gods stay out of my region for 2 weeks!), but getting ready for going has been rough. But, all classes have stuff to do, sick child has medicine, sick partner will have to suck it up (I do feel bad about taking off with both of them a mess!) and I will concentrate on work.
Uncontaminated time... I think my time with my child and at home is pretty uncontaminated - they know when you're not fully there with them. I think I'm pretty good with keeping things separate between home and work, but work time is more scattered because there are so many things competing for attention and it just ends up being paralyzing. I am sometimes quite terrible at making choices about what I should be spending time on... And how much time I should spend on things - sort of a cost/benefit ratio. Too high in many instances.
I'm feeling so incredibly behind on everything that I am struggling just to keep my head above water. So I'm calling off everything for the next two weeks that is not bare minimum level of classes and maintenance to leave space for thinking about lab research, otherwise I will lose it.
Goals: NONE right now. I'll be back in three weeks, after adding a catch-up week after these two.
Good luck everyone!
Safe travels. And I hope everyone gets healthy! Sometimes the TLQ is just staying sane -- I think we all feel so much pressure (as you say, so many demands from so many directions) that it's hard to just say "I'm doing one thing now", but that's what we do.
Deletegoals 1) aquire or print out a calendar page and some coloured stickers, post them where I can see and use them to record my chain efforts 2) 5 minutes every day of house related stuff 3) 5 minutes every day of some kind of exercise 4) 2 lots of 30 minutes on Crunchier
ReplyDeleteachieved: 1) acquired, but not used - still lying around on my desk. Sigh. 2) not really. 3) three days 4) yup, but as one extended session on one day. Still progress!
analysis: contaminated time is definitely a big issue here - stress, interruptions, meetings and uncertainties are all eating into my ability to focus on pretty much ANYTHING. It's hard to get into the zone at the office - I don't like my current office, plus there's too much else going on (mostly unbloggable. But conversations got to the point of collectively agreeing a date on which a delegation will approach a Higher Authority to declare No Confidence in certain processes and persons. Which in a wierd way is helpful, as at least it's some kind of clarity!), and too many students who did barely any work on their projects LAST semester but suddenly can't wait a day or two for help THIS semester. SIGH. Also, since my stress-response tends to be physical, I find it hard to get in the zone on mental things when my physical-self is signaling that all is not well. I too used to love walking and find it a great way to smooth out mental waters, but hip-cramps, lower back spasms and urgent, unpredictable needs for bathrooms make walks another source of anxiety. This is one reason I am getting my yard redesigned - when it's done, I'll have enough outdoor space (which is barely overlooked by anyone except pigeons) suitable for doing some simple marching on the spot or T'ai Chi or stretching in, so will be able to move under the sky even on days when I'm not confident enough in my body's reactions to set out in public, or just when I want a ten minute break. Also, I contaminate my OWN mental space by having a very yammery kind of brain. I'd wonder about ADD/ADHD, except that I DO have the capacity to enter flow and stay there for hours when I'm not too stressed or anxious, so I know it's possible (and worth looking for).
goals for next week: 1) use those pages to track: a) 5 minutes every day of house related stuff b) 5 minutes every day of some kind of exercise and c) 5 minutes a day of deleting/filing/curating old emails and 2) 2 lots of 30 minutes on Crunchier. TRQ is to complete all of last semester's administrative paperwork for one of my roles... sigh
Such an eloquent account of the things that get in the way. My office is very sociable, so it's not a good place to work. But I know it's even worse when there is discontent: the only thing marginally good is that it's shared, not individual. Good luck on the house and exercise, and I'm looking forwrad to the cool colored stickers!
DeleteIt sounds like the new garden will be a wonderful thing for you (once it's done of course). I understand that some ADD/ADHD forms include hyperfocus as on element.
DeleteGood luck on TLQ and TRQ stuff this week. May all your paperwork be orderly.
I seem to have lost my comment, so here goes again. . .
ReplyDeleteAllan Wilson:
Contaminated time: yes yes and yes. Work time crosses with play time, and yes my children know when I am not present, but it still happens. Walking is more like a free range idea time when I don't feel pressured, that's why I love walking. Pleasure in thinking, without the pain.
More generally, though, I feel as though I am in a rut of slow progress which is paralysing me- I can do small immediate tasks, but falling behind on completing papers, for example, and becoming even more freaked out with the lack of progress and how to change the pattern. which definitely contaminates my joy in non work time. tips on getting out of paralysis, and finishing papers most welcome.
So, this week, my goals are
1. exercise every day (aka stay sane)
2. do one analysis on a TLQ paper to my satisfaction, so I can get it submitted by the end of next week. I have contracted with my awesome boss for chocolate if I do it.
allan w
Goals:
1. write every day for one hour, and exercise every day. Writing, no, this was a disaster as I got caught up in immediate and urgent tasks. Exercising- four times, which I am happy with. It was the best I could do.
2. Think about the project (ie the questions behind the spreadsheets). Not at all.
I wish there was an easy answer to getting out of paralysis. I've gone through several bouts of it over the years, and the key for me is finishing *one* thing. That allows me to build momentum. I suppose it's about being generous with myself. So maybe don't begrudge incremental progress. Good luck! (And I'm curious how others have dealt with this. My sense is that it's very common.)
DeleteOne element of paralysis for me has been the idea that whatever it is I'm working on has to be more excellent in proportion to the delay. I have to go into "shitty first draft" mode, or expect multiple revision passes, or just go in and fix two or three things to get started. It's really the starting that's the hardest part for me.
DeleteEvery once in a while I have to get a pep talk from GEW that the paper doesn't need to be done to some really high standard, it just needs to be good enough. I was a student who had a really hard time shooting for anything less than an A, but when I was stuck, if I tried to write a C paper, I usually made good progress and ended up with something better than I expected.
My husband's trick at dissertation time was to read the worst dissertations his department had graduated in the past few years. After reading those, he was convinced he could at least do that. I know it's different for peer-reviewed articles, but lowering the bar for the most immediate progress is still possible, I think.
And chocolate is always motivating for me.
It seems like the benefits of walking are a common theme! Too bad we can't live the life of Emerson (or maybe Wordsworth)--lots of reading, writing, and walking.
DeleteAmstr, I am glad I helped you lower your standards ;). I'm trying to do that for myself right now. And you have helped me learn how to research without reading every word of every damn book. (Still working on that, but getting better). After all, "Perfection is the enemy of the good!" (Voltaire).
Thanks you all so much for replying. It helps - I don't feel alone with this any more. And will be trying to take these ideas on board mentally. Along with the chocolate of course :)
DeleteI know what you feel, and I am also cheered up by the comments. Along with the chocolate, too ;)
DeleteHello. I am checking-in very late. Mmm...
ReplyDeleteTopics:
My time is always contaminated, actually. I sometimes long for relaxing time for myself, perfectly alone and without feeling guilty, but on the other hand, thinking about my to-do list has become a habit. Maybe I just cannot concentrate.
Last goals:
1) Week 3-2 of Belcher's book.- Some. I think I have a few good points to think. To do is the next task.
2) Review one important book. Try again. - Started to re-read the book.
3) Write the introductory part of the review article. - Not yet.
4) Exercise for 5 minutes everyday. - 5 days. Good. I think I have made this tiny exercise session my habit.
5) Have healty snacks, avoid unhealthy ones. - Not done. I had looots and looots of dangerous sweets.
Next goals:
1) Week 3-3 of Belcher's book.
2) Review the important book.
3) Write the introductory part od the review article.
4) Exercise for 5 minutes everyday. 2 sessions, if possible.
5) Have snacks, but not too much. You can do it!
Have a happy week, everyone!
Congratulations on starting and maintaining your exercise habit! Feed on that success. You can do five minutes of just about anything, and once you get started, you've done the hardest part.
DeleteWishing you good progress this week.