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I've never been good at habits...
And that's really an excuse. It's not a reason. It's a cop-out.
I'm autistic; that's not an excuse to be an asshole. (I don't use it as one)...
But it holds true to the above. I know that I have a substantial number of
signs pointing me to ADHD, I know that. I also know that if I don't start
trying to get my shit together now, with or without medication, I won't be
able to get it together ever.
I'm slipping.
So I'm trying. I'm going to keep this gemlog, or try to. I'm using apps to
track my habits and my needs. Next... I need to find some people to help
keep me accountable. I need some accountipality (lol). But that comes with
time, and having people who can do that.
I'm starting small. It's November 29th 2021, the only habit I want to develop
is that by December 31st 2021 I want to walk my walking trail every day.
It's a fairly short trail (about 1/4 mile). When the pandemic hit I realized
that I needed to get shit together, so my spouse and kiddos and I bought a
farm. It's a real farm. We hydroponically grow vegetables. We have bees making
honey, some dairy goats, some egg-chickens. We're doing OK. But we also cut
this trail.
My spouse is an ecologist. She's pretty badass about everything she does but
when it comes to ecology and naturalism, she's even more so. She's got this
plan to restore our lot, and (non-native honeybees aside... she'd want me
to say that) make it a local natural paradise to attract wildlife and become
a more sustainable plot.
I love the idea, both of having the wildlife to watch, and of the concept of
being able to grow native foods, and trees. To have my own sustainable forest
for our woodstove, and building projects. Being able to take a hike through
our impending nature reserve sounds more and more appealing to me. The problem
is that I'm out of shape. It's partially because of a medical condition, this
is true, but I also know how to work out in spite of my condition... I just
don't.
So my goal is to get back to being in reasonable shape. To start with that
I'm going to hike my trail more often.
Weeks:
S M T W T F S
1 1 1 1
2 1 1 1
3 1 2 1 2 1 2 1
4 1 2 1 2 1 2 1
So for the first two weeks I'm going to hike 1 lap a day, M/W/F
The second two weeks, I'm going to hike 1 lap each day, with 2 on M/W/F
This, I hope, will be enough to establish the beginnings of a pattern. I will
be starting this the second week of December this year, and will, thus be on
week three by the end of the month.
Starting next week, I'll do my daily blog with a tracker of what habits I am
keeping up with.
I've got to get myself back together, so I can get everything back together.
Until tomorrow!
J4yC33