Okay, I admit it. I'm an overachiever, and like most of my kind, I'm a failed one at that. At least, that's what I believe in my heart of hearts.
With that confession over, this unique environment we're in--being discouraged from going out in public unless absolutely needed really provides opportunities to overachievers like me.
I already talked about my reading and writing time. No surprise, I track all that on spreadsheets and daily journals.
I haven't returned to coding since my dad passed away in August 2018. Nothing to do with his dying, per se, though that was indeed horrible. Contracting pancreatic cancer while one is in their mid-80s leads to a real cruel ending. Even though my dad was a professional programmer (a career I pursued for thirteen years until circumstances derailed me into a management position I never escaped from),
I don't have a mental block or anything. I just stopped doing it, instead devoting more time to my writing.
Same on the art front. For a time, I was creating digital abstract art like mad. I downloaded apps (mostly free) to make these pretty far-out "paintings" and had slowly developed my own style. But I stopped a year or so ago and haven't been back to it since.
Again, there's no reason. I just stopped.
I've been pretty consistent with my home workout program which supplements my gym workouts. That hasn't changed in any meaningful way in the last three years.
As I'm being bombarded with emails from Coursera and CreateLive (among others), luring me with short-term classes promising to teach me all manners of things I'd love to learn, I decided to be judicious and pick one new activity: yoga.
Now I'm already doing some yoga poses as part of my home exercise. I've also downloaded yoga apps to my iPhone, fully intending on starting a program of daily yoga. However, the price just to try the course out to see if I could stick with it prohibited me from using them.
Enter Sunsa Yoga, an iOS app that at least has beginning sessions that are free. I started out with the 16-minute yoga sessions for beginners and have enjoyed them so far. The only downside of this app is they don't have an iPad version (your tablet will run the app, it's just not in designed for the form factor of the larger screen).
So while I'm not taking up watercolors or knitting or learning Icelandic, I am doing something for my physical health...and that's all right with me.
Yours in flexibility,
Michael
With that confession over, this unique environment we're in--being discouraged from going out in public unless absolutely needed really provides opportunities to overachievers like me.
I already talked about my reading and writing time. No surprise, I track all that on spreadsheets and daily journals.
I haven't returned to coding since my dad passed away in August 2018. Nothing to do with his dying, per se, though that was indeed horrible. Contracting pancreatic cancer while one is in their mid-80s leads to a real cruel ending. Even though my dad was a professional programmer (a career I pursued for thirteen years until circumstances derailed me into a management position I never escaped from),
I don't have a mental block or anything. I just stopped doing it, instead devoting more time to my writing.
Same on the art front. For a time, I was creating digital abstract art like mad. I downloaded apps (mostly free) to make these pretty far-out "paintings" and had slowly developed my own style. But I stopped a year or so ago and haven't been back to it since.
Again, there's no reason. I just stopped.
I've been pretty consistent with my home workout program which supplements my gym workouts. That hasn't changed in any meaningful way in the last three years.
As I'm being bombarded with emails from Coursera and CreateLive (among others), luring me with short-term classes promising to teach me all manners of things I'd love to learn, I decided to be judicious and pick one new activity: yoga.
Now I'm already doing some yoga poses as part of my home exercise. I've also downloaded yoga apps to my iPhone, fully intending on starting a program of daily yoga. However, the price just to try the course out to see if I could stick with it prohibited me from using them.
Enter Sunsa Yoga, an iOS app that at least has beginning sessions that are free. I started out with the 16-minute yoga sessions for beginners and have enjoyed them so far. The only downside of this app is they don't have an iPad version (your tablet will run the app, it's just not in designed for the form factor of the larger screen).
So while I'm not taking up watercolors or knitting or learning Icelandic, I am doing something for my physical health...and that's all right with me.
Yours in flexibility,
Michael
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