Only three more runs coming this year. Hard decisions to make: Should I aim for 8,500 kms? [This would mean: ~32 kms/day for the coming three days.] Or should I just run as it pleases me and end the year on an odd number of kilometers…? [I‘m not Monk, so I could live with that.] Maybe I should do a poll… 🤔 #Running#applewatchultra2#goals
I'm getting Google, Facebook and Amazon out of my life.
Starting last year and continuing until it's done, in manageable increments, I've been gradually disentangling myself from three of the worst tech monsters. After 15 years of letting them embed their fangs deeper and deeper into my leg, it's daunting!
Finding an alternative for audio books and ebooks tonight was a nice step. I still have to un-DRM my books from them and find a non-proprietary e-reader, but I'll get to that.
Even seemingly little things like removing Google Analytics from my sites and installing the (paid) non-tracking app Plausible Analytics felt like a big thing at the time. I had to first look to see if there was such a thing as privacy-forward analytics — there is, with multiple options! Then pick one, then sign up, then install and configure...
So I'm taking this step by step. It'll take years. But each additional step feels liberating.
Living more mindfully is a common New Year’s resolution. This year, try gifting it to others. Listening with compassion to another person describe their experiences. Putting away your phone. Turning off social media. Setting aside other common distractions.
Pay attention to the patterns in your life. Which ones serve you? Which ones are unhealthy? The good news is that YOU are the one who creates those patterns, so you are the one who can change them if you wish.
Friends:
Set ambitious goals.
Then give yourself time to grow into them.
#altText a tiny white kitten sits in the large plant pot of a ficus benjamina house plant. Almost all we see is the stem, the leaves are high above, out of frame. The kitten looks waaay up, with a determined expression. She know that one day she'll climb that tree, tip it over, make a huge mess, evoke a scream ... she can see her success so clearly, already. #mmm#goals
Got that December half in. Treadmill run, ran 7.8//8.0 mile “intervals”, eked out the sub-100 min! Feels good taking it easy through the holidays knowing where I’m at.
I'm not where I want to be, but I'm definitely getting closer. No dream is built overnight, it takes good and bad days, the important thing is not to give in to the first bad experience. Be persistent. ✨
A friend of mine posts occasionally something on FB he calls the “Monday Morning Memo.” This was his MMM for this week. #DeepThoughts #Goals
“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well and the world is a better place for you passing through it. For it's not the length of life, but rather the depth of it that most matters." ― Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)