Diet: WIN! (fruit and vegetables, relatively little added sugar)
Exercise: WIN! (walking, yoga, chin-ups)
Sleep: IMPROVE (adequate sleep, but needs to be earlier)
Mindfulness: PASS (meditation after yoga, practising presence in daily life)
Love & Support: PASS (visiting with friends, Facebook)
Learning: WIN! (Toastmasters, French)
I gave my first speech with Toastmasters (since 10 years ago, anyway) this afternoon and it went really well. I introduced myself and hopefully convinced everyone that it's worth thinking about robots. :)
I've been doing yoga semi-consistently for several days now and it's already starting to feel really good. I'm also up to about 3 (ish) chin-ups on a good run, which is the best I've ever done, I think.
I've gotten back into Facebook which is a mixed blessing. On the one hand, it's good to manage your online profile in the modern age. On the other, it can be distracting and sometimes discouraging--there's a lot of blatant misinformation out there, and it's hard to resist the urge to correct all of it. Or rather, any of it, because correcting it can only ever result in making people feel defensive and even more committed to the misinformation.
My favourite was a post that made it sound like the niqab ruling recently is going to allow armies of militant Islamic women to blow up half the countryside. Not one of the people sharing the meme seemed to realize that the citizenship ceremony only occurs at the end of the citizenship process, that there are security checks, and that the women have to have lived in Canada to even be eligible, rending any security concerns utterly moot.
I guess the reason this one bothers me a lot is that this behaviour, the targeting of minority groups with lies, is reminiscent with some very frightening regimes in the past.
Anyway!
I myself am good. I just need to practice my meditation and manage my emotions. There will always be, and have always been, people who are wrong on the internet. :)
In fact, I've started reading The Art of War by Sun Tzu, and I think he would advise that arguing with people on Facebook is not a particularly effective strategy, on multiple levels. Speaking of which, I'm still reading and studying my face off, and my brain has this wonderful "growing" feeling in it. That's worth putting effort into.
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