Body: walking, diet, sleep
Mind: documentaries, organization, errands
Spirit: walking outside, games
Social: visiting with friends, corresponding with family
Yesterday was mostly dominated by two events: first, a visit from the plumber, who did some work in the bathroom as part of the repairs for the unit one floor down from me; and second, a belated visit to the Double Greeting with my friend Shane.
The earlier part of the day had me just hanging out at home, so I watched a lot of documentaries, sent some thorium and economics links to a relative of mine (a second-cousin-in-law), and did some organization of several tasks (I accomplished one of those tasks later in the afternoon).
After dinner, I played a game called XCOM; Enemy Unknown, which is actually really fun. Fans of the original XCOM game find that it isn't quite the same as the old one, but the new one, while different, is fun in its own right.
Overall, yesterday was a good day. So good that I almost put a win in the Social column for no particular reason. Then I remembered an important change that I'm making to the check-ins: instead of treating it like a score card with passes and failures, I instead want to change it to a gratitude list. Expressing gratitude towards people and things in your life has proven benefits for mood, energy levels, and productivity. Also, game designers have increasingly discovered that gamers hate losing xp but love gaining it. So marking things as pass/fail is actually fairly unimportant for an experience point system, where all that matters is rewarding the positive actions.
So these are partly things that I accomplished, and partly things I am simply grateful for.
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