Day #163 - Not Born To Pay Bills and Die

I was borned to live a life.
Looking forward to my trip~

Goals of the Day:

• NZ trip planning until Day 8 (Have quite some insights while planning during commute for the past few working days)
• Achieved until Day 7
• Exercise (since I skipped it yesterday)
• Achieved
• Meditate and Sleep early
• Achieved
• Reading for at least 15 minutes
• Achieved

Managed to push myself to attain most of the goals I have set out.

Jia you, me.

Today's Small Wins:

• Achieved most of the goals
• Exercised (3 x 1:40m, 3 x 1:50m, 50 sit-ups)
• Read for 15 minutes (on The 5 Choices)
• Meditated for 10 min
• Quality leisure time (looking at a new manga)

Today's Small Losses:

• Spent too much time on leisure
• Woke up slightly late
• Slept late

Day #162 - The Cause, and The Effect

Have a taste of Adversity,
Drink a cup of Humility.

Goals of the Day:

• Be focused at work
• Achieved
• NZ trip planning until Day 7
• Not Achieved
• Meditate and sleep early
• Meditated, but slept late

Had something to rush at work.

So stayed back until 9.30pm to finish off the work.

By the time I reached home, it was too late to do anything else but rest.

Today's Small Wins:

• Efficient at work, took initiative to do report formatting
• Did NZ trip planning, but not until Day 7
• Meditated for 10 min

Today's Small Losses:

• Didn't spend enough time on NZ trip planning
• Didn't sleep early
• Didn't exercise

Day #161 - Making Today Fruitful

I strive to do this today; to make my Sunday well spent.

Goals of the Day:

• Have a fruitful wedding prep discussion with Dearest
• Achieved
• Devote at least 1 hour to NZ trip planning
• Achieved
• Plan for next week's schedule
• Not Achieved

It was rather late when I got home.

I figured it would be better to rest instead of pushing myself over my fatigue level to stay up to do planning.

Today's Small Wins:

• Quality time with Dearest
• Spent time on wedding preparations with Dearest
• NZ trip planning
• Meditation for 10 min

Today's Small Losses:

• Woke up/Slept late
• Didn't plan for the coming week

Day #160 - Feeling Rather Refreshed

What is the place that I feel the most alive?
Hmm... at the moment, I could think of the mountains, the sea, and the breeze that engulfs my body.

Goals of the Day:

• Work on NZ trip until Day 7
• Not Achieved
• Meditate
• Not Achieved

Didn't manage to achieve my goals for the day -_-"

But it's okay.

Was quite a nice day anyway.

Today's Small Wins:

• Worked on NZ trip
• Quality time with friends

Today's Small Losses:

• Didn't continue on my habits (waking/sleeping on time, meditate)
• Only got Incentive for my IPPT

Day #159 - Last 10 days in this month

The month passes quickly.
And I realized I didn't really do anything for my personal growth or learning.
Time is really a precious entity.

Goals of the Day:

• Plan out the details from the brief itinerary
• Achieved (still on D3 though)
• Clarify doubts using tripadvisor/edmw
• Nothing to clarify yet
• Rest early for tml's IPPT
• Going to sleep now

Friday has been rather peaceful, which is good.

Today's Small Wins:

• Focused at work
• Did research for NZ trip
• Meditated for 10 minutes
• Resting early

Today's Small Losses:

• Woke up late

Day #158 - Focusing on Intentions

I will practice this today.

Goals of the Day:

• Come out with a report draft
• Achieved
• Brief plan for NZ trip for Day 3 to 6
• Achieved for entire trip
• Rest early
• Somewhat

It's been a somewhat emotional day.

But I'm glad it's over =)

Today's Small Wins:

• Drafted out most of my report
• Managed to come out with a brief plan for the entire NZ trip

Today's Small Losses:

• Didn't meditate
• Didn't wake up on time
• Didn't sleep on time

Day # 157 - Persistence, not Luck

So I will have to just keep going on in whatever I do.

It's an important day today for me and Dearest.
Hope everything goes well =)

And although it's a public holiday, I would be going back to work for a while.

Goals of the Day:

• Have a good meet-up between my parents and Dearest's parents
• Achieved
• NZ Trip Planning
• Achieved
• Be focused in office work
• Achieved

Thankfully the meet-up went well.

Today's Small Wins:

• Had a good meet-up session between the parents
• Did some focused work back in office
• Did some serious planning for NZ trip

Today's Small Losses:

• Small pockets of time lost to distractions (i.e. Facebook and Youtube)
• Didn't meditate