Brave New Life

Day Twenty-Six

It was my day off, yay! Although I am finding myself already thinking about how tomorrow is my last weekend day and how I want to spend it, I am trying to be positive. I got up and immediately made my bed today and that made me feel better about my slacking the days prior. If you didn't make your bed today. Do it now, yes now right before you climb into it for the night. I swear you will feel better about your room and your effort in the day just from that one small act. 

I did not exercise today, but that is in preparation for a bigger hike than usual tomorrow morning. I'm stating that here and saying it out loud to increase my chances of follow through. I did run all of my errands, pay my bills, and got all my meal prepping for the week done. I had to switch it up this week because if I have to eat one more bite of chicken anytime soon I'm going to lose it. I'm having red meat this week and that's that. 

The most important thing I did today was reach out to another school to inquire about a program. Well, actually I reached out to the same school I already graduated from about a different program they offer. I figure that I am already very familiar with the school and know all of my credits will transfer, so why not see what else they offer? I am very much looking forward to hearing back. 

I also did something today that I haven't done in far too long. I wrote. I don't mean this here. I like to write fantasy stories (although I've never finished one) and today I wrote a chapter in the last story I was working on for the first time in ages. It felt good to stretch my creative muscles and immerse myself into a different reality. I think I will set a new goal for myself: Finish this story by the end of the year. This will be extremely challenging on top of all my current goals, but I think it will be good for me to strive for it. I believe being creative in itself has value to me. It gets me out of my regular thinking patterns for a bit and relieves negative thoughts for a time. Ultimately, taking time to be creative allows the brain to think more creative when faces with challenges in reality as well. At least, that's my theory. 

I ate okay today. I didn't eat anything unhealthy, but I did that thing again where I didn't eat until late in the day on my day off. I also never even really ate a full meal. I just wasn't feeling it today and I think that's okay. I was relatively inactive and didn't need the calories. Plus if my body doesn't tell me I'm hungry then why should I force it? 

So even though I didn't put as much effort today into my other goals, I put effort into other aspects of growth and maintained a really good mindset. Therefore, I am giving myself a 4 for the day on the growth scale. 

Til tomorrow my brave comrades,

-C.