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2023
Looking forward to 2023, these are the key habits I want to instill in my day to day life:
Listening to more audio content (audio books, podcasts, and music) Walking more (probably whilst listening to audio content) Less time unconsciously ‘consuming’ I posted on Mastodon recently that my theme for 2023 is ‘Distraction Free’, and these habits should help me achieve this.
Listening to more audio content is key.
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2019 Goals
Here are my goals for 2019. Most of these involve self improvement of some sort, and crucially don’t involve simply cutting things out, or a fixed number of things to do a week or whatever.. Each year I’ve said ‘exercise 3 times a week’, ‘no energy drinks’…. Well that doesn’t end up happening.
2018 was a great year, and 2019 will be even better!
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Spend time improving yourself mentally and physically Lose 3.
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An update to how I use Exist.io (Android Edition)
Twelve months ago I wrote a blog post that explained how I used Exist.io with all the various services and hardware that I owned. That was iPhone centric, but I now use a Galaxy Note 8 so there has been some fairly major changes to my workflow. Read on…!
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The biggest change was obviously changing from iOS to Android. The Exist app on android is just as great as the iPhone version so this was no big deal.
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Swim not gym!
I tried the gym. I hate the gym. I keep trying, but it’s always awful!
This time, I joined the local leisure centre. This is better. The pool brings back nostalgia from my childhood. I used to be a pretty decent swimmer when I was a kid. Not so much anymore, but it’s a nice memory.
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The first time my wife and I went swimming sucked. I managed ten 25 metre lengths.
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Life Tracking with Exist
I’ve built up quite a collection of health and fitness apps over the last few years. MyFitnessPal (MFP) tracks my eating habits, Withings tracks my weight, my Apple Watch monitors my heart rate & my activities.
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All that data! So many apps to view it all. Well, not really. Thanks to Apple Health and everything starting to talk to each other, all these disparate services can share their wealth of data with each other.
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Executive Order Ban the Beer - First Month Goals Update
Over a month has passed since my last post, and in that time I have been (slowly) working towards those goals I mentioned.
I didn’t go to the gym that much, but I have been doing exercises at home (and on the road) with the help of my girlfriend who does 30-60 minutes a day in our flat. I even have resistance bands, and a roller!
I have almost completely stopped drinking beer.
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Biking, biking, biking!
+Laurence Andrews already posted about our latest biking escapade. I’ve made a point to go more days this week than last, and so far I’ve equalled my current stats.
Tonight’s ride was pretty cool, around 6.6 miles. It was starting to rain, but wasn’t that bad really since it was fairly light. I had my new waterproof bike jacket and glasses I got from Aldi’s for less than a tenner so to be honest I was pretty comfortable.
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Day 5 of reduced caffeine
So nearly a week has passed with energy drinks! I did have Lucozade Cola at lunch today which apparently contained 0.012% caffeine or some small amount but I’m not going to count that. I didn’t have a red bull or monster, relentless or rockstar! Pretty proud of myself! I’m actually pretty tired now which is nice, time to go read a book (A Game of Thrones!) or play a game (Dragon Quest IX!
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Day 3 of reduced caffeine.
Ouch. I think I realised I had a problem after I took this photo at the university library the other week.
I was probably drinking an average of 1 to 2 cans of various energy drinks daily. (Rockstar Guava is the best energy drink ever. No debating.) It’s never caused me much problems until this week. It just continued the vicious cycle which crashed and burnt spectacularly this week. Withdrawal fucking sucks.