Day 1525

Day 1525 Record Keeping
Day 1496 Fixed Meditation (15 min, metta)
Day 1371 Writing (DID NOT DO)
Day 910 Rowing (DID NOT DO)
Day 651 Mobility/Stretching (DID NOT DO)
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Great sleep. Did all my habits yesterday, but had a busy day, getting home really late, so did not record. Today I had a lot of appointments to to view houses downtown, so didn't end up able to do any work or "rowing". I think the issue is that I'm trying to push my writing, so I don't have a set cut off point after which I record. So recording just gets done at the very end of the day with no trigger. 

A lot of self help books talk about having a "before you go to bed" ritual, but it seems to be a difficult thing behaviorally because there's no set event to kick off the routines. Short of having an alarm, I really don't see a way to kick it off, unlike events during the day - waking up, taking a shower, etc). That's something I need to solve, because I do believe a bedtime ritual is important, and has great potential to double up on habits.

Anyway, I think these gaps and interruptions are going to occur in the first few months being back in the States what with getting settled.

Day 1053

Day 1053 Record Keeping
Day 1025 Fixed Meditation (on the go)
Day 899 Writing (DID NOT DO)
Day 439 Rowing (DID NOT DO)
Day 180 Mobility/Stretching (back smash & hip stretch)
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Eating
Day 277 Pantry Check (DiD NOT DO)
Day 275 Food Recording (DID NOT DO)
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Early to Rise
Day 208 Water
Day 208 Sleep Recording  (11:40|12:20|7:50|8:20)
Day 179 Bedtime Curfew
Day 17 Wakeup Alarm 69
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Bad sleep, ok wakeup. TONS of errands that lasted the entirety of the day. Talking to Lydia on quality of sleep had her bringing up a Mark’s Daily Apple post where he talks about drinking bone broth/stock right before bed. Mark apparently experienced some great sleep, and linked to a study on glycine and quality of sleep. Tonight I just happened to have some broth I got from the local Vietnamese restaurant, so I did my mobilization before bed and drank a small cup of the broth. We’ll see how it goes tonight!

Day 1052

Day 1052 Record Keeping
Day 1024 Fixed Meditation (15 min)
Day 898 Writing (DID NOT DO)
Day 438 Rowing (100 25 lb kb swings, 4x25, Russian style & bike ride)
Day 179 Mobility/Stretching (back & hip smash)
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Eating
Day 276 Pantry Check (DiD NOT DO)
Day 274 Food Recording (DID NOT DO)
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Early to Rise
Day 207 Water
Day 207 Sleep Recording  (11:45|12:20|8:30|9)
Day 178 Bedtime Curfew
Day 16 Wakeup Alarm 68
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Great sleep, bad wakeup. Did a back smash before bed last night, based on the idea that mobilization activates the parasympathetic nervous system and is great for relaxing you. It did relax me, my quality of sleep was great, but my wakeup was pretty bad in that I felt pretty groggy and as though I could have slept more. Now that waking up seems to be pretty consistent, I really want to look into what increases my quality of sleep. I feel this involves a solid before sleep routine. I don’t know if that should include mobilization - I think that the parasympathetic nervous system is invoked constantly by new age practices that may not necessarily be true - but I’m willing to experiment.