I had one minor slip up today, looked up a map and a quick vacation price, about 3-4 minutes online. It was outside of my rules, and I knew it. Staying off the PC games, staying away from TV, all seem to be REAL easy at this point. But those 5 minute pops online to quickly look at something seems to be my hardest obstacle at current.
I had less of these mistakes near the beginning of the challenge, and find that now I am fighting even stronger urges to do this or that. My husband is shopping for a new dirt bike for me, and I desperately want to look up info on it, shop around for prices, look at accessory costs. We were talking about going out of town in the summer, and I want to research that. People are chatting on Facebook, and I did not turn off all email notices, and so I am tempted to go make a comment or two (namely because they are from long lost friends I haven’t chatted with in years….who I want to at least tell I am ‘unplugged’ and will chat later….but don’t know if I should do that…grrrr).
So I think I am at just another bump in the challenge, and I just need to take a deep breath, and plunge forward with my rules and goals still firmly in place, unchanged, unwavering. I managed just fine the first 10-12 days with rarely even a teeny mistake, so I just need to hunker down and stick to my guns at this point.
Starting to get a little frustrated with my lack of ability to ‘look up’ info, and even have asked my husband to look up several things for me because I HAD to know, as I knew a small look up could turn into an hour of browsing if I wasn’t careful. Must say this is really the first time in this challenge my energy about it has faded a bit, but I am determined to do a full 30 days. Keep reminding myself of those who said I could NOT complete this challenge, because sometimes the ‘goals’ get fuzzy, but sometimes I can get additional energy from the competitive aspect of completing this challenge.
Day 16 Results:
- Work Productivity – High
- Home Productivity – medium
- Energy about challenge – Low (seems to be a large crash from the day before)
- Physical Energy – Medium
- Mental clarity – Medium
