In case you, my numerous and avid readers, hadn’t noticed already yesterday was one month since I began this endeavour on my 22nd birthday. From here on there is one year, one day less. How do I feel about this so far? Well in truth I feel positive and negative. If I am honest it has been a busy month and I have still managed to make a number on some aspects of my life and have been able to see some of the practical difficulties of this great attempt. I think there is still more I could have done especially over the last two weeks where I have been off the ball. I think one thing that I have come to realise over the last two weeks and even today that the hardest thing about this is the thing I want to improve the most. My motivation. I have also discovered that some tasks I have been naïve about, for example reading two books at once. Another thing I have noticed about how I have been tackling this is that I have heavily looked at improving myself intellectually through activities and increasing my general activities. Despite my initial plan I have done as much work on my physical or mental-emotional state. So moving into the following year I realise in several areas such as my learning of guitar and Spanish I need to up my game, however in the department of reading and some craft areas like knitting I think that I can calm down. Do I have any exact and more refined goals? Well from two books a week I shall be scaling down to a guarantee of just one book a week unless it is a particularly heavy book in which case I will state before I start. I will be buying a book on Spanish to increase my ability there and will hopefully be purchasing a guitar. I also now have the first part of my student loan in so I can begin to better control my finances following the plan of putting £100 into savings and taking out £100 to spend after each pay, leaving any left within my account to help cover any bills etc. I shall also look to follow tasks that will help engage the aspects of my person beyond my intellect that I want to challenge.
Looking more closely at the week been and the week to come what can I say? I have completed all but one of the tasks which was to translate a piece into Spanish. I feel I have done well to an extent though I will not lie and admit the last too weeks have been full of the laziness I detest. As for next week I expect only to finish one book, I am knitting a scarf though I know that won’t be finished. I do plan on acquiring an acoustic guitar as well as a study book for Spanish, I hope to have finalised my decision on what to do as entry to the gallery exhibition. On top of that I shall post my first short story with aim to have all done and one chosen as a base for my full book by Christmas.
As for my task of deciding upon the circumstances in which I can drink I have drawn up my list. I shall allow myself to drink at event where I am performing, I shall allow myself to specifically drink WITH a meal of particular significance and I shall have 6 events over the next year where I shall allow myself alcohol. However I imagine from what I have heard of the walk I intend to take across Spain that drink will be difficult to avoid, I therefore may allow myself drink on that trek of tradition. The first occasion where I will allow myself the joy of consumption will be on the 16th of October which shall be the date of my day of honesty. Yes I shall spend the entirety of the 16th of October telling only the truth and shall openly answer all questions no matter how awkward, the only exception being I shall not answer questions about other people only my personal interactions. I shall spend the day in my usual routine but shall settle myself in a pub for the evening, either the Illicit Still or Somewhere with reasonable and comfortable seating, perhaps Triple Kirks.
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