Blog 13 Pushing through

I have been quite sick since last week and barely able to sleep at night. I am having really bad nightmares that wakes me up every night around 3-4 AM. It has been terrible!! Moreover, I have been feeling very low lately with my boyfriend moving to another country , a close family member being seriously ill and just a lot of things going on together! I try to manage study, work, health but I am barely keeping up..

Study goals : I have been clocking only about 2 hours of study everyday and it has been mostly math! Most of my day goes into procrastinating or trying to distract myself from everything going on by watching netflix or YouTube. For now just making sure that I show up everyday for my studies and work is also seeming tough!

Health and fitness goals : I tend to binge eat junk when I am going through something and that’s exactly what has been happening past few days! It’s not helping that I am sick too. I don’t remember when was the last time I saw sunlight (probably last sunday when I took these pictures!)

It’s been a tough week honestly! But we don’t back down. We can’t walk so we crawl but we move forward no matter what!!!! I am still proud of myself for pushing through even if it means I do the bare minimum for few days, I still show up and that means something!! (Pretty cloud pictures attached)

Trying a new reward/bribe/motivational system

Each card has a task

Card can be taken off board after task is completed

August 10th

Blog 12 Breaking breaks

I was on a break since Friday , August 7th and didn’t get much done during the weekend or today. A long break usually throws me off and it takes quite some effort to get back to routine, so somehow I always work best in extremes , which is not healthy at all , but you gotta do what you gotta do and when you gotta do! 😭

Study goals : Didn’t get a lot done but I did give a mock test in the weekend and analysed the quant part of it. I scored decent so there’s some hope for improvement which is good news! I have completed geometry revision and I just have data analysis and permutations, combinations left. Verbal is still something I am struggling with!

Health and fitness goals : I have not been quite well past few days so I hardly have the energy to workout, but hoping I get there this week. I have been trying to eat healthy but I went out a lot this weekend and ended up having junk here and there.

It has not been a very productive day overall. Regarding my sleep schedule, Alarmy is working good for me so far. The only problem is I am sleeping very late to actually get up early. So gotta fix that.

Blog 11 Morning Miracle

I could finally wake up on time today!!! I slept around 5 hours but that’s okayyyyy cuz I got up at 6:30!!!!! Tried Alarmy after a long time and Ig the app was updated with some very cool new features and it totally rockss 🤘

Study goals: I had to commute an hour to office and then back so I only managed to study about 3.5 hours today, most of which I completed in the morning. I competed one section of Geometry and mugged up 60 GRE words. I was in calls for like 4-5 hours straight today so I am happy with what I got done despite.

Health and fitness goals: Well I didn’t workout, but I did eat pretty good though and walked a little today which was nice.

I have absolutely 0 complaints today because I FINALLY WOKE UP ON TIME AND IT IS NOTHING LESS THAN AN ACHIEVEMENT FOR ME!!! I hope I can maintain this going forward.

3rd and 4th August - Missed few blogs because I fell sick and couldn’t get much done apart from completing the Algebra section.

Blog 10- When I wake up

I studied for 3 hours, worked out for 40 mins, spent time with my family, I am still tracking my entire day on paper, completed all my pending office tasks and meetings. A fairly productive day, I can already see progress.

Study goals : I completed coordinate geometry today. I had a lot of work meetings today and couldn’t get much time to get anything else done.

Health and fitness goals : Completed a workout sesh, meditated for 5 mins, ate fairly okay ( didn’t have very balanced meals today) . Overall 3/5 day .

The biggest struggle is still waking up early, I feel everything else depends on that right now, I can study so much more and I want to! But balancing work with it is very difficult. I usually work the US Shift - which means busy evenings so I have to complete most of my personal tasks in the morning. Once this is fixed , I can actually achieve so much more in a day!

2nd August

Blog 9 : Slight setback

I did not check off anything I had planned for today, but I still studied 3.5 hours effectively today. I faced a bit of “unforeseen circumstances”

Study goals : I could not complete the arithmetic section although I did make a lot of progress, the last section has more of note taking and things I am not really good at (complex word problems) so I am taking my time .I decided not to give the mock today as I didn’t want to waste the inventory by giving a poor mock. I also struggled with 1 question for almost 2 hours today so that’s where all the time went!

Health and fitness goals : Today was a rest day so no workouts, I did eat healthy though and squeezed in a quick meditation session too.

Honestly not a bad day, but not what I had planned at all. But it’s okay cuz we are getting better everyday 💪. I am just gonna take my melatonin now and sleep by 12 so that I wake up by 6-7:30 AM tomorrow.