Day 2 - Retail therapy

Highlight of Day 2 of my blogging and trying to stay consistent with my habits and daily routines included flossing, buying shoes, applying to about 10 jobs and gardening. Well atleast on the 10th day of October, I applied to 10 jobs and I am happy I started.

 Started my day with job applications and knocked those out before I got distracted! In the morning, I did some gardening, which makes you feel grounded literally and metaphorically! Spent sometime swimming in the pool where I am definitely getting more comfortable and agile in the water. And I am so happy to make progress with bilateral breathing. The power of consistency!!

Also ended up tasting some luxurious cookies - vegan french macarons from Veron. Oo laa laa!! Those tasted luxurious and also made me waste a lot of time looking for vegan macaron recipes!!!😛 Gotta give those another try sometime!

Can't believe I bought yet another pair of running shoes, this time it is Saucony's Endorphin Pro 3 and my 5th pair of shoes for this year!! Oh boy that calls for it's own blog post altogether. But yes, I invested in one after I heard rave reviews about it and it was called the 2022 shoes of the year and I have an A race coming up at Big Bear where I want to PR and break 4 hours marathon time.

Basically I yielded to FOMO as I did not want to miss out on a great deal and regret for the rest of my life lol!

How do I feel?

Much better compared to Day 1 although I didn't accomplish everything I set out to.

Gotta keep making progress. Motivation gets you going but discipline keeps you growing. I will be pumped to do more when I stay consistent. Gotta keep at it.  

Day 1 - Flossing

 This is a title I want to remember for a while and think about it one day that it all started one day with flossing.

Context 

In a pretty bad state mindset wise where I feel pretty useless most of the time and at times it does get overwhelming when I do break down and let it out to my crazy partner! Being out of a job sucks! Being out of a job for over six months sucks big time! I can’t seem to get over the fact that it happened to me and I am now in a state where I feel kinda stuck while everyone else moves on. I don’t want to think and overthink about what others might think of my state or not! I want to live in peace and not be robbed of happiness because of a silly job. It is a job and it will work out but today I need to be patient and not worry and waste my time future tripping! 

After a meltdown I decided to start with baby steps. 

1) Drank water (which I don’t do enough!!)

2) brush and flossed my teeth (As mundane as that is, I don’t do it consistently and haven’t flossed in months!!)

3) Oiled my hair 

4) Put a bandaid to my right toe wound in prep for the upcoming marathon 

5) Decided to blog about my intrusive thoughts and also have a plan on what I want to accomplish.

Need to mention a little bit more about flossing because it’s not easy for me. It’s not easy to get started with it, to do it, like everything about flossing seems a fluster for me! It took about 12 minutes for me to floss my teeth and I could see that there was a lot of bleeding when I did it. I couldn’t remember the last time I flossed but I remember telling the dentist at Hemamalini Dental Clinic that I would floss everyday!!! And that never happened!! 👎 

But patiently flossing every teeth although a painful and bloody process was satisfying to be able to stick through and complete it!! That led to a chain reaction of other things including me resuming to write about my blog which I’ve only thought about doing but never got to it 

Plan for tomorrow (want to start with baby steps)

1) Clean up clutter ( basics, nothing too deep)

2) Swim for recovery

3) Check out Long Beach Marathon course

4) Decide on a book to read

5) Meditate for 5 minutes 🧘‍♀️ 

So if I accomplish these 5 things on 10/9, I consider it to be a win! Good luck. 🍀