Sorry for the long delay again. The last several days went by really quickly.
Diet: WIN! (fruit, vegetables, moderate added sugar)
Exercise: PASS (walking)
Sleep: PASS (regular and adequate sleep)
Mindfulness: PASS (general mindfulness and irregular meditation)
Love and Support: PASS (visiting with friends, corresponding with family)
Learning: PASS (French, news)
The scores here are hitting a bit of a lull and that's being reflected in my mood, in that I'm feeling a little stressed out and down today. Though that may be partially due to my current frustrations with the market: I want to liquidate some stock and the prices keep dropping. In the long term, the stock market will be fine, it's just annoying that it's doing this right now.
That's risk I suppose.
But to focus on the positive, I'm heading out for French class shortly, I just did a little meditation and some very brief but nevertheless endorphin-releasing exercise, and had a good text-chat with my mom. If I can pay attention to the categories above and push one or two in to the win column, I'll probably be back to my chipper self by tomorrow. In fact, just what I've done in the last hour or so is already helping.
Jane McGonigal, who has popularized the idea of gamifying mental health and other real-world challenges, was on the CBC yesterday morning, and it was interesting hearing her take on things again. In particular, she uses more gamey elements like creating a "secret identity" and identifying "power-ups" and "monsters". The categories I list above are essentially my power-ups.
I think I'll play with these ideas a bit. Maybe I can bring in the vision board notion when dealing with the secret identity.
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