2024 Week 9: Status and Photos
2024-03-04
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I tend to start a lot of projects and tasks, only to stall on them after a few weeks. I might forget about them; I might become distracted with other things; I might lose motivation; I might become disorganized and lose track of how I'm doing. Last week I've redoubled my efforts to stay organized and on-track. I have three primary methods of task tracking, and each contains reminders to keep the others up to date. As a result, I've gotten a lot more done in the last seven days than I had the entire previous month. I feel pretty good about myself.
I've tried to analyze the times I've stalled out on personal projects to see if I could spot a pattern. One fact seems surprinsing to me: I can rarely sustain momentum for more than two weeks. Considering that most improvements I want to make in my life take much longer than two weeks, I understand why I see so few changes.
One prominent example of a stalled project is my weight loss efforts. I dropped from an all-time high of 256 pounds in May 2018 to a low of 207 pounds in May 2022--a change of almost 50 pounds! But by November 2022, my weight was back up to 227, and it's been stable ever since then. It's good that I'm not gaining over time, at least, but a year and a half is quite long enough to make no progress. I've tried and stalled many times before, and I can't guarantee that it won't happen again, but I never want to give up.
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Photo of the week:
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One of my cycling routes takes me through an industrial park on the outskirts of town. There are many large warehouses and a bustling train yard nearby, but undeveloped farmland surrounds them, and I don't have to share the backroads with pedestrians or other cyclists. Of course, most of the warehouses are designed with intermodal shipping in mind, and stacks of containers are littered everywhere. This one seemed rather najestic to me, like a series of cliffs.
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