22:45
- Check-in — I can’t really give myself a tick for this, as I really haven’t had a proper focus for each day yet this year. I have just got up and got on with whatever I felt like doing. Clearly, there is plenty of room for improvement here — no tick.
- Fuel — I’m not sure how healthy Weetabix are — they are at least whole-grain, but there was no fruit, and what kind of breakfast starts at 2 p.m? Having said that, now that I’m putting up all these posts on this blog, I really don’t think I can let myself get up so late in the future, not if people I know are reading this! With such a late breakfast, I never had lunch, and as I’ve said above, dinner was pizza and chips, but I did at least wash it down with a Diet Coke and have some peas and sweetcorn with it. I took my medication at 10, but one of the side-effects is that this makes me hungry, so I have been having a bit of chocolate on the side, but this is at least the 86% Cocoa stuff, which is supposed to be a lot more healthy than milk chocolate. On balance, I think I’ll give myself the tick here, but I should really be having the five portions of fruit and veg.
- Maintenance — considering that I didn’t sit down at the computer until 2:45, to leave for a jog at four was pretty good going — tick.
- Takeoff — clearly, no tick.
- Cruise — concentration has been excellent, tick.
- In-flight entertainment — it is now 11 p.m., and I have just about been at my desk for the same length of time that might be expected of a typical office worker. As I said above, I should unwind with a bit of TV before going to sleep, but I had a massive TV session yesterday, so that wouldn’t count as a tick. Sod the routine, I might well just watch a bit of Family Guy anyway! Although I have kept myself to myself most of the day, the time I did spend online was dedicated towards actually meeting people, and I made some good plans for next week and the one after, so that would qualify for the tick.
- Land — When I have got back into a decent routine, then I’d really want to be heading to bed at 10 during the week, but I’d be a bit more flexible on a weekend. But right now, the routine has gone out of the window, and there’s no point in going to bed when I’m not tired. So for now, the jury is out on this one, but I am going to keep on blogging for a while yet.
As far as the weekly activities go, the only one I could take so far is tidying the kitchen, and I did also take the rubbish out on Wednesday. This is the first time I’ve attempted to do an update on the Mind Pilot routine since October last year, so I haven’t set the other seven tasks for the week. It would be a bit hard on myself to just give myself a fresh seven, I think there are a number of things I’ve done this week which were quite important, but I don’t need to list those here. Why I do need to make sure of is that now I have put the Mind Pilot routine up online, I get back into the driving seat as such I make sure I follow it. I’m not going to promise I get all 100 points right for next week, but I should at least be ready to have a go. You might be wondering why I would want to bother going to what seems like such an extremely detailed routine, but why I have been so lousy at following it. All I can say is that this is something that has worked for me in the past, but which is very easy to allow to lapse. By devoting all of my time today on updating this blog, I have been able to remind myself of how many different strategies I have for managing my chaotic brain, and I’m sure that things will go a lot better next week when I start putting more of these strategies into action.
(23:16 – a straight hour)