Wow, here we are at the end of June. An update on what has happened, or is happening, or not happening, so far:
- Build the habit of putting down my phone when I am with people. I’ve been conscious of this and I’d like to believe it’s been a positive change for the people around me!
- Put friends and family birthdays into my calendar so I remember birthdays. I’ve been quite good about this – better with family than friends, but am counting this as a win so far.
- Do Storyworth with my grandmother. My grandmother is b”H finding this so enjoyable and meaningful. We are a few weeks behind but have done a lot, too. I feel very grateful to be doing this with project with my grandmother and it has significantly deepened our relationship.
- Call friends (at least) twice a month. I haven’t been keeping track but I do think this has happened.
- Give attention to relationship weak areas: saying no, apologizing, forgiving. Yeah, really haven’t worked on this. Like I mentioned, it wasn’t a great goal as goal-setting goes.
- Donate blood. Have not done.
- Don’t sign up for any extra courses. I haven’t signed up for anything outside of work.
- Do 10 minutes of strength training on my WFH days. I…no, I haven’t done this this quarter, almost at all.
- Get sunglasses. Did this last quarter.
- Average 5,800 daily step count for the year. Yay, I think am here! When I got to France my phone did a funky thing and added 500 steps to last year’s average — I’m hoping it fixes itself when I get back — but before I went away my average was at about 5,800.
- Learn more about my birth chart. Have not done.
- Read the halacha section of Reclaiming Dignity. Done!
- Learn Sefer Yehoshua & Shoftim. My Partner in Torah and I are still a few parshios out from finishing Sefer Devarim. I may start this on my own.
- Review CPR book on a biweekly basis. I am not thrilled to share that I haven’t done this at all.
- Read through A Poem for Every Night of the Year. I am a few weeks behind, I generally read these in spurts (so much for making a nightly habit of this!) I do still think it’s a nice way to consume poetry, in theory.
- Learn some Latin. Have not done.
- Watch season 6 of ACGAS, AND re-watch previous seasons. My mother and I finished season 3. I do want to get back into this, it’s been awhile.
- Thoroughly visit the Bronx Zoo. Not yet.
- Go to at least one Yankees game. Not yet.
- Walk up Broadway (Manhattan). Not yet.
- Visit the south of France for my birthday. In progress bH!!
- Set up my journaling business website. I haven’t worked on this since last check-in…but it’s there.
- Reach (surpass?) 100+ email subscribers. Haven’t set up a newsletter yet.
- Publish one article. I replaced this with a conference presentation, which is done.
- Make a praise file. Did not do.
- Defend dissertation proposal. Still working on this! The goal is early fall.
Last time, I said I was thinking about replacing numbers 5, 11, and 16 and I didn’t do that because I haven’t given the list a ton of thought, but — maybe I’ll do that before next quarterly check-in.
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