i recently discovered 365 blogs, and i was intruiged. being that it was new years time and all, i though i might give it a go as well. so here's the skinny on my blog.
as you may have already noticed, this blog is called 'mind. body. soul. 2012'. let me explain. no, there is too much. let me sum up:
first, i have been feeling a little behind in a few areas of my life, and i want to play a little catch up. second, i'm obsessed with compartmentalization and the number 3 (hence the 3 categories into which just about everything in life falls: body, mind, soul). third (there's that number 3 again), i feel like graduating from college is like the beginning of a new stage in my life, and i want to start 'cleaning out the closet' in my life and get rid of some bad habits and start some good ones. basically i just want to take control of my life and become something.
so....
apparently publicly posting unflattering information about oneself is a great motivation for change. every day in 2012, im going to post about my progress in my three areas of life: mind, body, and soul. let me break it down for you:
mind
graduating from college is great until your mind starts to atrophy due to lack of broad mental exertion. therefore, i've decided to exercise my mind in 2012 by learning a bunch of new stuff. i want to learn how to train my dog really well, i want to learn more web programming. i also want to learn spanish. i scored advanced-high on the opi for russian, so i figure i can take a break from that for a while and move on to something new, and spanish it is. i want to broaden my horizons and learn everything i can about everything i can. so ill be posting about that.
body
i have never really taken physical fitness that seriously, and im finally fed up with having a mediocre body and only being able to perform on a mediocre level physically (im talking about sports and such). so the second part of my daily posts will be about my progress with earning the body i want to have. i'll post pictures of my progress (and i apologize for the first couple of months in advance...me + topless = not attractive). my goal is to be able to do 100 consecutive pushups, 25 consecutive pullups, and run a 5k in 21 minutes (beat my personal record from high school). For this ill post running times and exercise results as well as everything that i eat every day.
because a huge part of physical fitness is eating right, i am going to implement a plan to get me to the point where i naturally distinguish between foods that i should and shouldnt eat. basically i want to instinctively NOT eat crappy food. so im going to blog about what i eat so that i will be more ashamed about eating crappy food and excited about eating good food. i think the plan itself will be interesting as well, so stay tuned for that.
soul
the soul is the hardest to improve because its the hardest to understand i think. it wasnt until recently that i really developed an interest in seriously developing the spiritual side of my life. im not talking about the religious side of my life, although i think that plays a part. im talking about getting in touch with my inner self and really exploring the worlds ideologies in search of all the truth that i can get my hands on. ill be focusing a lot of time on grounding myself in the beliefs that i already have, but im excited to test out new philosophies and ideas and see how the work with what i believe. i feel like my whole life has been lived from a very narrow perspective, spiritually speaking, and i want to explore everything that the world has to offer.
2012 is going to be a year of discovery and a year of refinement. i hope some of what i say or do will be inspiring to someone somewhere. heres to another year of life!
as you may have already noticed, this blog is called 'mind. body. soul. 2012'. let me explain. no, there is too much. let me sum up:
first, i have been feeling a little behind in a few areas of my life, and i want to play a little catch up. second, i'm obsessed with compartmentalization and the number 3 (hence the 3 categories into which just about everything in life falls: body, mind, soul). third (there's that number 3 again), i feel like graduating from college is like the beginning of a new stage in my life, and i want to start 'cleaning out the closet' in my life and get rid of some bad habits and start some good ones. basically i just want to take control of my life and become something.
so....
apparently publicly posting unflattering information about oneself is a great motivation for change. every day in 2012, im going to post about my progress in my three areas of life: mind, body, and soul. let me break it down for you:
mind
graduating from college is great until your mind starts to atrophy due to lack of broad mental exertion. therefore, i've decided to exercise my mind in 2012 by learning a bunch of new stuff. i want to learn how to train my dog really well, i want to learn more web programming. i also want to learn spanish. i scored advanced-high on the opi for russian, so i figure i can take a break from that for a while and move on to something new, and spanish it is. i want to broaden my horizons and learn everything i can about everything i can. so ill be posting about that.
body
i have never really taken physical fitness that seriously, and im finally fed up with having a mediocre body and only being able to perform on a mediocre level physically (im talking about sports and such). so the second part of my daily posts will be about my progress with earning the body i want to have. i'll post pictures of my progress (and i apologize for the first couple of months in advance...me + topless = not attractive). my goal is to be able to do 100 consecutive pushups, 25 consecutive pullups, and run a 5k in 21 minutes (beat my personal record from high school). For this ill post running times and exercise results as well as everything that i eat every day.
because a huge part of physical fitness is eating right, i am going to implement a plan to get me to the point where i naturally distinguish between foods that i should and shouldnt eat. basically i want to instinctively NOT eat crappy food. so im going to blog about what i eat so that i will be more ashamed about eating crappy food and excited about eating good food. i think the plan itself will be interesting as well, so stay tuned for that.
soul
the soul is the hardest to improve because its the hardest to understand i think. it wasnt until recently that i really developed an interest in seriously developing the spiritual side of my life. im not talking about the religious side of my life, although i think that plays a part. im talking about getting in touch with my inner self and really exploring the worlds ideologies in search of all the truth that i can get my hands on. ill be focusing a lot of time on grounding myself in the beliefs that i already have, but im excited to test out new philosophies and ideas and see how the work with what i believe. i feel like my whole life has been lived from a very narrow perspective, spiritually speaking, and i want to explore everything that the world has to offer.
2012 is going to be a year of discovery and a year of refinement. i hope some of what i say or do will be inspiring to someone somewhere. heres to another year of life!
