This week is flying back with busy work load. I feel like jumping like Sofia (2019 in Vienna) while in office, and then flat when I get home. Fortunately, spending time with the family calms me and makes me feel loved and cared. Lizzy is very caring about my work buddy leaving Jakarta. She keeps checking on me and talks to me about different ways to cope with losing a friend. Very cute.
Engie asked how I keep track of my goals. I use two journals, one to track workouts as it helps me identify things that make me improve and feel better, and things that make me feel tired/sore more than usual. I write down my workouts, fueling, and how I feel during and after the workout.
My daily page in Hobonichi. I track daily habits a la Sarah, tracking time spent reading, podcast/music consumed, daily tasks, meals, and if I have an appt that is non-work related, I’d put it in the left side. I use my work calendar for work related meetings.
I use monthly page to keep track of my goals, books, movies, favorite podcasts, new recipes tried, something I did to cultivate relationships (new in 2024), and fun things I did with the girls.
I also track sickness, mood, period cycle, symptoms (acid reflex, dry eyes) in other pages of the planner.
I agree with Sarah that writing things down makes me more mindful of what I am consuming. It also helps to remember things and find correlations. For example, my energy level is always lower during my second half of the hormonal cycle, my digestive system gets slower, my mood swing bigger, etc. It helps to not blame whatever happens in one day nor one person, but acknowledge the cyclicality of things.
I listened to this podcast and found it interesting. We may have different definition of friendship. What does friendship mean to you? I haven’t found a way to articulate what friends mean to me. It is an area that I feel I’ve neglected in the last decade while busy with establishing at work, getting married and having kids. It may be that things are turning and I am more curious about friendships again.
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Wow. That is a commitment to tracking. When do you do it? At night? In the morning? I have a similar paper planner that I use to track some goals, but it’s not on this level!
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I love seeing how other use their planner and track things! I don’t track much – just my workouts and what days I am in the office in the Gantt area of my planner.
I imagine moving around has been hard on friendships. It takes so much more work when you live further apart. It’s easier these days with email, FaceTimes, etc but still takes conscious effort. I got married later in life (36) so I spent a lot of years forming and focusing on friendship. I don’t have nearly as much time for friendships as I used to but I still feel like I have a lot of close and fulfilling friendships. I am glad I’m entering a stage where things like girls trips will be more possible though!!
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Your planner looks a lot like mine used to! I love having the information to look back on, and also like you said, to see the routines, the patterns, the gaps etc. Also I think it is a good thing to keep track as it makes you realize how much you do get done, what you can accomplish etc.
I no longer keep a paper planner, but have not yet found a perfect electronic version, so I now have a notes app where I keep to do lists and other things like that, and a calendar for a lot of the other stuff but I need to figure out a good system.
Regarding friends, it is hard to find people who “get” you, especially if you move around a lot. Luckily there is technology and we can still keep in touch with friends who are far away!
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I don’t track much- meditations and movement, mostly. Hmm, friendships… They change as we age, and we come in contact with people for that season of life, and come out of contact when change comes or we move away or our kids grow. Like some moms friends of mine from when L was a baby- I only still keep in touch with one. But as kids grow, more friends come into your path. In addition to that, I have three friends who really are like sisters- we’ve been friends for… 13 years? Those are the ladies that know me well. We make an effort to chat, to connect, to get together.
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Thanks for sharing your tracking habits. I always love to see how other people do it.
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