The athletic feat I’m marveling at right now is that Kelsey Pfendler broke the record for fastest solo row (for any gender) across the Pacific (California to Hawaii) at 43 days. I had no idea such a record even existed until my childhood friend rowed on a team with her a couple years back in World’s Toughest Row.
On a personal level, what’s working is actually committing to strength training. I talked my wife into getting an InBody scan with me last month with plans of getting another done at the end of summer. Even though it isn’t a perfect way of measuring muscle, psychologically it has kept me honest about eating enough and getting consistent with going to the gym.
I am on the third audiobook in a series, The Winter of the Witch, after not listening to fiction since childhood, and it’s been 10/10. I would not get the Russian names right at all if I read it with my eyes. Since the books are so long they’ve been keeping me company for over a month now. Shoutout to the Libby app and my library.
Silence has also been working. And eating outside. I deleted the Instagram app and have only been using it in a browser which is a bit like eating the off brand version of a guilty pleasure food; it doesn’t really scratch the itch and it always leaves a bad taste in my mouth, which is more or less the point. I’m approaching job interviews like the online dating I did back in the day (sometimes I really want them to like me and sometimes it’s just a funny story to tell my best friend). I’ve been soaking up time in the rec pool after my kids’ swimming lessons and delighting as they actually learn to swim(?!) which I did not realize would be so important to me as a parent. I had some plans and hopes for this month that do not seem to be aligning with reality, so I’m trying to make the most of what is instead of fighting it. And let’s be honest, if I can actually get better at savoring what is, it would probably be far more consequential than whatever SMART goals past me had in mind.
I hope the best for your time away!
The athletic feat I’m marveling at right now is that Kelsey Pfendler broke the record for fastest solo row (for any gender) across the Pacific (California to Hawaii) at 43 days. I had no idea such a record even existed until my childhood friend rowed on a team with her a couple years back in World’s Toughest Row.
On a personal level, what’s working is actually committing to strength training. I talked my wife into getting an InBody scan with me last month with plans of getting another done at the end of summer. Even though it isn’t a perfect way of measuring muscle, psychologically it has kept me honest about eating enough and getting consistent with going to the gym.
I am on the third audiobook in a series, The Winter of the Witch, after not listening to fiction since childhood, and it’s been 10/10. I would not get the Russian names right at all if I read it with my eyes. Since the books are so long they’ve been keeping me company for over a month now. Shoutout to the Libby app and my library.
Silence has also been working. And eating outside. I deleted the Instagram app and have only been using it in a browser which is a bit like eating the off brand version of a guilty pleasure food; it doesn’t really scratch the itch and it always leaves a bad taste in my mouth, which is more or less the point. I’m approaching job interviews like the online dating I did back in the day (sometimes I really want them to like me and sometimes it’s just a funny story to tell my best friend). I’ve been soaking up time in the rec pool after my kids’ swimming lessons and delighting as they actually learn to swim(?!) which I did not realize would be so important to me as a parent. I had some plans and hopes for this month that do not seem to be aligning with reality, so I’m trying to make the most of what is instead of fighting it. And let’s be honest, if I can actually get better at savoring what is, it would probably be far more consequential than whatever SMART goals past me had in mind.