It’s the fifteenth day of November and at the very beginning I laid out some thirty things I would love to do this month. It’s ambitious of me, given how easy it is to consider a thing done just by talking about it ( that’s why I haven’t been consistent with working out and fitness).

Here’s what I have done and loved doing every day :

• Tune into more podcasts (Speaking of Psychology, On Purpose with Jay Shetty, TED Talks Daily, Huberman Lab are some of my favorites). I also discovered some new podcasts (shared here)
• Participating in Nanowrimo 2022. I have written 12392 words so far.
• Design a logo
• Read more books from my Netgalley shelf
• Stretch in the morning
• Wake up at 6am
• Go to bed by 10pm
• Finished watching the Chinese Drama Ashes of Love- on Netflix. This was a roller-coaster of emotions for me and the only relief was that unlike The Untamed, it had a good ending.
• Wear more brass earrings
• Drink more water and often
• Speak my mind
• Read more blogs by Kenyans ( if you know any that you’d love me to follow let me know)
• Reward myself for what I did achieve this year. Yes, bought four pairs of shoes.
• Review my retirement and savings plan.
• Cook for myself more often- instant noodles is not the only thing to eat.
• Call and talk to my family often

Here’s what I haven’t been able to do:

• Eat more vegetables
• Dance more
• Eat out
• Cut down on processed sugar
• Take evening walks because it rains almost every evening!
• Cut down on noodles ( you can miss a host of things in my house but never a pack of chicken noodles)
• Forgive myself for not fulfilling some of the dreams I wanted to achieve
• Throw down- best explained as the act of cooking and serving a buffet of meals for the people you love
• De-clutter
• Donate some of my books

I got to work on a simple logo design using Canva and learned that there is a lot to colors and fonts that I know nothing about, and in the end- I resorted to black and white.

I am still working on:

• Praying often
• Completing Nanowrimo
• Forgiving myself for not fulfilling some of the dreams I wanted to achieve