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| Upgrading my Habits. (get it? get it? lol) |
It's a good thing...except when it isn't.
I've improved my fitness level, and my writing discipline. I meditate more, and watch less TV. I eat more vegetables and fruit, and less sugar. I check my calendar more, and social media less...
These are good goals, right? But, geez Louise...there's always room for improvement isn't there? I think I like, enjoy, and accept myself more than I ever have. I think I have more patience and compassion for myself than I ever used to...but it's sort of an 'all evidence to the contrary' thing.
I do seem to put a lot of pressure on myself.
More Room For New Stuff Again
It's partly because habits that were once hard...just don't take that much effort after a while. They just become part of what I do in a day. Things that were once my all-consuming tasks for the day, get done as easily as I used to sit down and scroll through my phone for hours. So, in a way, I have bought myself time. And, in a way, these goals take up less bandwidth to maintain than they did to set up.I know when to put things on a back burner and just blow them off. Yesterday, for instance, I took an un-planned exercise rest day, ate less-than-perfectly, and basically slept alllll dayyy looonnnggg.
It was AMAZING.
It followed four days in a row of flying and I enjoyed every minute of it...but I did make sure I got my new goal in, because new goals are the easiest ones to lose.
There's also the fact that the hardest, most all-consuming parts of the house renovation are coming to an end. We might actually get to live there and enjoy it.
So now I'm going to really get to enjoy the local community.
Viva Español!
So...I'm back to learning Spanish! 
I've needed it more than ever in this past year, but had zero headspace to think of much more than work, and Casa de Llaves. My brain was filled with room dimensions, curtain rod lengths, color swatches, chair cushion dimensions, where plugs and switches should go, water filtration system options, how to get things we've acquired here down there, how to get ourselves packed up and down there too.
Plus those things that need to be taken care of here, while we're there, and taken care of there while we're here, ...and so on and so on and so on.
And then, of course, there's the rest of life and family and friends and activities and events...blah blah blah.
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I already reduced my Spanish goal to just doing one DuoLingo class per day on my phone. This takes all of about ten minutes, but it still felt like a lot of pressure just to remember to do it, and more than I could take in once I was doing it.
But this week I'm back with a vengeance. Today I hit seven days. DuoLingo is great about keeping you motivated. As with everything, I get very driven by hitting a daily goal.
Learning New Ways to Learn
I also watched a video about immersing yourself in a language...even if you're not actually surrounded by that language. He had a lot of suggestions and I am already implementing the first one.
Tecnología en Español
His first suggestion was to switch all of your electronics to the language you want to learn. The guy was very specific that it must be ALL of your devices.So I switched my phone and my laptop.
Wow. (I'm learning a lot!) First thing I've learned is: I don't know any Spanish. You don't realize how much you don't know...until you're trying to maneuver entirely in another language.
Only a moment ago I learned that the label at the top of my browser page saying: 'Nuevo Pestaña', translates to 'New Eyelash', but really stands for what I formerly knew as a 'New Tab'.
So, yeah...lots of gaps in my knowledge. Big, gaping, gaps...huge ones.
But...it has definitely amped up my studies.
How do you say: 'brain melting down' in Spanish? (Asking for una amiga.)
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