I've been a bit bitter for a while, with the feeling of having all the time in the world and not knowing how to take advantage of it, wanting to do things in my mind and not being able to realize them in real life. Simple things eh, draw more (without pretending to be a new 'Picassa'), write more and better (leaving aside articles that talk about what to see in Prague for free), have more time for me ... buah seems very simple but not It is so much. Or if?
Maybe I have an imaginary master in invention of excuses, this I know how to do well. Anyway. I set out to challenge myself. And how verba volant scripta manent I have decided to make it clear in this post, you know ... I better publicly commit myself to have more pressure to end my attempt! The push was given to me by Maga when I read her new creative madness in a Lebanese restaurant in Skopje, it was when I had it clear: To change things you have to start with changing yourself.
This mini-challenge of a complainer with good will will last 21 days * it will not be days in a row, it will be 'improvised weeks' * and it is divided into 3 parts ... this week the challenges are:
1) MEDITATION
It was never something that caught my attention but the truth is that lately I am seeing / reading / receiving many signals to keep running out of reaction. I am a very impulsive girl, who loses her nerves easily and who also has a constant mental cocoa. Maybe learning to meditate helps me listen more or maybe not. For this I will try, to take away my doubts.
2) DRINK ONLY WATER AND TEA
What nonsense, you will say. Yes, it is. But the coke is so rich, with those sparkling bubbles, I love her so much that I'm even happy to have brown eyes, as she * doesn't mean her eyes, that I know she doesn't have *. The bastard is so good and so bad. So the idea is to fall out of coke and drink only water and tea. Cleaner impossible.
3) EAT MORE VEGETABLES
Oops the vegetables. For a few years I have learned to eat -some- vegetables (lettuce, cauliflower, beans or cognates) but it is true that I am more carnivorous than vegetarian ... and I want this to change. I also learned to make some vegetable meatballs that would drive Chicote himself crazy that is I think I'm going to get along well 🙂
4) DO EXERCISE EVERY DAY
Ah ah ah. I laugh. If I said before that I could have a master's degree in invention of excuses, now I have to say that I have a PhD in invention of excuses for not exercising. Yesterday I made a handful of abs and today I have laces. I'm crap and this must be changed * I still think about how I could finish the Tongariro trekking without doing the harakiri during the tour and without throwing me which suicide moth to the cone of the volcano *. The idea is to do a light exercise routine because I know myself and I can become obsessed the first two days and leave it all the third time. Little by little, so that I don't get bored and don't leave it in half, as always.
5) WRITE A POST A DAY
I love to write and every time I realize how therapeutic it can be. I will take advantage of this challenge to write more (both on the blog and offline).
6) KEEP CALM!
What I have to learn is to count to 10. I have a special character and I usually jump more than a Masai during a party * buahaha, anyway *. I hope that meditation can help me a little to breathe, calm down and relax before setting up World War III for any bullshit. Oooooommm
7) 10 'MARATHON WRITING
Write for 10 minutes without stopping, without raising your hands from the keyboard, without thinking too much about what I am doing. 10 minutes are not many but nice things can come out, in the past I made a creative challenge in diary of a travelholic it was called 'eravamo 4 neuroni at the bar', I could do it to backpacking too, it can be fun.
8) PAINT EVERY DAY
Something I really miss is painting. When I was little I did a lot, so much that my mother told me that it cost more in brushes, watercolors and colors than in food * and I was never a girl who ate little huh? *. On the last trip through the Balkans, I really wanted to sit down and paint, so now that I am home again, I will take my heart off.
9) 1 HOUR OF B&B (BEACH & BOOK)
Living in Andalusia is a real joy. Today, November 3 there is sun, blue sky and 24 degrees that feel divinely, and we live 5 minutes from the beach ... we are going to enjoy a beach for me and a book this week. At least one hour a day! This is not going to be much sacrifice, really.
10) FINISH THE CHALLENGE
The hardest part: will I get to finish this mini-challenge? I almost never finish what I start ... to see if this time is going to be different. On paper it does not seem difficult, what happens is that reality is sometimes a bit damn, or is it me?
In a week I will publish the results * suspended, nooo * and publish the second part of the challenge of a complainer with good will.
Good luck to me!
