INTRO
I had some specific resolutions for the year, but so far I have only updated you regarding one specific goal: fitness and health. So in these posts I’ll quickly go through the others. But first of all, here were my five main objectives for the year as spelled out here.
- Lose 50lbs. Get fit.
- Finish editing my poetry collection and get it ready for (self-)publication.
- Enter some poetry competitions.
- Carry on with learning Basque and meet my specific goals.
- Get back into Spanish: Glossika every day; TV, radio, Netflix and podcasts every day; reading; take an official B2 practice test.
I talk about goal 1 in most posts, so I’ll skip that here.
GOAL 2
The poetry editing is coming along well. I really only have three poems left to edit before I go through the final process of deciding which poems make the cut, the order of the poems, and so on.
GOAL 3
This isn’t going well. I looked up some competitions, but foolishly didn’t enter. Let’s see if I can set that right before the year is out.
GOAL 4
My Basque language learning journey goes up and down, but in general it is going well. I am regularly watching stuff in Basque, if only for a few minutes a day. The last three months were also probably the most productive I’ve ever had.
GOAL 5
Errr, ¿qué? This could be going better.
SUMMARY
Routine is key. Routine is king.
Fitness: I go running (more-or-less) at the same time every day, when everyone else is in bed. I do exercises — push-ups, crunches, and so on — at the end of that run.
Poetry: my routine is to have a look at one poem just before / after completing admin tasks at home (at home! I don’t slack off work, I’m a teacher so much of my work is done off-the-clock).
Basque: I do part of my programme whilst I am working out. I do another part of the programme at bed time.
Spanish: Whoopsie. No routine means no real gains. My idea was to do it after dinner, but for various reasons that routine is not sticking. Back to the drawing board? Maybe. but this routine worked before, so let’s see.
I should also say that I work full-time, work at home (as mentioned), and am a father and husband, so yeah, time management is tricky but key to the routine.
P.S. Check out my other posts in this series: update one here, update two here, update three here, update four here, update five here, update six here, update seven here.
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