My April challenge was meant just for training my self-discipline, for finding out if I
still had it. Now I have to share the results.
1) get up right after the alarm-clock
(must learn not to be late
everywhere and I've discovered that staying in bed for too long after the
alarm-clock is the only thing that prevented me from being puctual)
All done. But it was easy. I work from 1PM, so I had to get up either at
10.30AM or 11AM (depending on the sort of workout I was going to do before
going to work).
2) exercise at least 20 min every day
(need to lose 5 kg)
Skipped the 28th of May. When I was ready to do the exercises, everybody has
already fallen asleep. That didn't prevented me from doing them when it was the
beginning of the challenge (and I'd say it's not an easy matter to do workouts
without music and in complete dark
), but on the 28th day I thought 'to hell with
it!' (I did the 29th and the 30th days though). Those exercises got me - it was too
booooring to do them every day! However, all this lead to strong desire to do
workouts 3 times a week.
3) don't eat for 2 hours before going to bed
(again, those 5 kg. 4 hours
used to help me much because this way you dicrease your appetite the next day. I
wonder if 2 hours would work as 4 hours were a bit exhausting)
All done. But I realized that 2 hours=0 hours, so in May I won't be eating for 4
hours before going to bed (I know it works).
4) write 100 words of my new composition
(want to participate in the
contest for young writers that starts in September)
All done. But it was uninteresting. My sister suggested brainstorming - so, for 21
days I was sitting in the kitchen and writing about washing machines and
micro-ovens. Surprisingly, just on the 22th day it struck me that I could write
about my future composition - describe characters, conflicts, etc. That was
exciting for some time. It's a pity I didn't manage to make up the plot.
5) do special exercises for my back (I have some problems with it. This habit,
however, will last for 2 months because I'll do this exercise routine every other
day. Perhaps, it's a violation from the challenge rules, but I'd like to follow my
doctor's prescriptions).
All done. This is a very necessary habit and I'm proud I could do it as it was
terribly hard ecause my back muscles were too feeble. This habit continues till
June 1st, as I said, and I must confess I could do it only because of the challenge
(otherwise I'd find a lot of excuses not to do it every other day).
So, all in all, this challenge wasn't in vain, I even became more optimistic in
general. I'll do one more challenge in May, but then, probably, I'll drop this idea.