Journey to stopping procrastination

I am a chronic procrastinator. I want to change that so for the rest of April. I want to chronicle the opportunities I have and the moments I have chosen to procrastinate or not. This bad habit also causes me to be habitually late. It really is the one thing that if I can change in my life would make everything else in my life so much better! I am going to chronicle things into 3 categories 

• neutral: things that I can be late to or not, issues where Procrastination does not have any significant effects 
• Neutral: things with negative consequences when late
• Positive: On time: things with positive consequences when on time
• Positive: Early: things that such as first time going to a location or etc that would benefit from being earlier than appointed time

So Day 1:

1. Event: wake up at 6am… actually got out of bed at 7am. Negative, mom yelled at me. 
2. Event: drink smoothie, I bought a smoothie and didn’t drink it till two hours later procrastinating. Neutral.
3. Event: meet at noon at youth Buddhist club to meet mom. Negative: mom was upset and had to call me. 
4. Event : read 2 journal club papers, arrived home at around 2:30pm didn’t start reading til 6pm, ended up late to journal club arrived at 8pm instead of 7:30pm. Negative: Susan reprimanded me for being late. 

Day 1: 3 negative, 1 neutral, 0 positive 

Tomorrow I have 9 more opportunities to be positive. 

1. Wake up at 7am. Negative

2. Go to Brooklyn boulder by 8am. Call doctor see if I can come in earlier. Negative

3. Start working on manuscript by 9:30am, leave around 11:30am negative

4. Go to doctor’s at 11:45am positive

5. Go to youth Buddhist after about 12:30pm positive 

6: go home and work on manuscript by 2pm negative

7. 4pm paint nails scheduled break negative

8. 4:30 manuscript writing negative

9: 6:30 go to moms for dinner??? Negative

Day 2 7 negatives 2 positives

Introducing my cat….. the amazing Po-Po

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His little primordial pouch swaying on his way back to my mom is the cutest thing everrr!

Beauty: February 2017

In addition to the Konjac Sponge, I have also added an apple cider vinegar tonor to my beauty routine. Hopefully, I will be able to review how results are with this new addition. 

1month on my TSL sustainability diet

Dear all, 

It has been about a month since I have had started my sustainability diet. I wanted to cut down on my meat consumption by eating vegetarian Monday-Friday. I am not a hundred percent sure, but I believe I started 2017 at about 128 pounds and now, I am about 124 pounds. So I do not see any significance in weight loss. I do however feel like I am doing my part for the environment. A big part of maintaining this diet was the fact that I told family and friends and they were helpful in reminding me of my diet restrictions. Many times on weekdays I would want to eat meat. Go get a cheese burger at McDonald’s or sometime. The truth is, I rarely go to fast food restaurants and I haven’t had one in a long time. I also sincerely, am poor and crave meat. 

I am a little concerned about whether or not I was eating enough protein daily. Other than that I do not think there have been any significant major changes. In general I was not a big meat eater before, but it did feel different restricting meat off weekdays. I couldn’t wait for the weekend to eat some meat. 
This month for February I want to go sugar free for one month. I plan on continuing the vegetarian weekdays menu, but for this month I will be more mindful and keep track of my daily proteins and refined sugar consumption. 

I want to hopefully remove refined sugar from my diet by the time I am 30. This has always been a health goal of mine since I was young girl. Hopefully I can make it. 
For this month I will not buy refined sugar products,but ones I already have that are perishable. I will consume.
For February, I also plan on losing weight. I am current roughly 125 pounds and I am 5’2″. According to the BMI standards for Asians, I hover just on the preobese and healthy borderline. I would like to cut back into the middle of the healthy BMI range, so that I have some cushion above and below. My ideal weight would be 115 pounds. To do this, I would like to cut back sugar and start a new exercise routine this month. This month I will start a running routine. 

Cookie Jam is addictive!!!!

Dear all,

I am the kind of person who gets addicted to games easily. Cookie jam, sucked me right in.

I downloaded the game yesterday and played 32 levels. I stayed up til 3am playing because I just couldn’t stop. Since I just graduated with a master’s in science in the fall. I have been job searching and currently unemployed. Cookie Jam is a time sink for the unemployed person.
To stop I had to tell myself. ” I am not a drug addict. I don’t get addicted to drugs, I will not get addicted to this game. And then I stopped playing, deleted the game from my phone, and went to bed.

I’m gonna give myself a pat on the back. I had moments where I could’ve lost my composure and kept the game on my phone or worst yet woke up and continued playing.
I will admit I did want to download the game again today. But I didn’t, I stopped and exercised my self discipline and control.
~ TSL

Konjac Sponge Update week 1

After one week of using the Konjac Sponge day and night I do feel like my pores are cleaner than before. However, I do not think my acne has improved dramatically. Of course I am using the white Sponge which is the most basic without thenactivatwd charcoal. I have purchased the activated charcoal Konjac Sponge and will compare next month. I will continue using the white one for the rest of the month and update weekly. 
This is where I keep my Konjac Sponge on the bathroom. I ordered it from art naturals and it came with a nice little hook you can attach to your bathroom mirror. 
~TSL

Using the Konjac Sponge

Have you heard of the Konjac sponge? It is a Japanese natural exfoliater. I’m am going to try to use it in my face washing regimen. Okay, let’s be honest here. I’m am going to actually try to keep up a regular face washing regimen. 

This is my sponge purchased 2 for $7.50 at art natural soaking in warm water.  I had yet to see the benefits as I have only used it for one day so far. But it is very soft and feels nice against my skin. 

Week 2

Week 2 was the hardest. Although I was only vegetarian for 5 days a week. The first week was really easy, I don’t know why but the second week was a lot harder. I totally was so excited to eat chicken wings! I’ve never been that excited to eat chicken wings before. 

Since then I think it has been hard because I have not been planning my meals. If I plan my meals, it would be a lot easier to be vegetarian for 5 days a week! 

Lately I’ve been reading about the 300lb vegan. It looks like being vegan is the easiest thing I can do for the environment, but I’m at still not sure. I like cheese and I like eggs. Vegetarian might be as far as I go. Or perhaps I can be like, I met someone who said they were pescatarian for 3 years. Perhaps I can just be either vegan or vegetarian for a couple of years. I really still not believe we all have to cut meat from our diets, but I think more limited consumption of meat is better for our health and  our planet.

Sweetness binge

Okay it’s a weekday so still going vegetarian strong. But I’ve got the cravings for something sweet. So my personal promise to myself is to eat something sweet and then go to the market to get a bunch of healthy food that I can cook at home. 🙂

It was extra sweet with the locals discount!

Insecurities

Fall 2016 – “The Bean” Chicago, Il

We all live in our head, narrating our lives, interpreting and seeing the world through our own perspectives. Sometimes I convince myself of my own insignificance that I do not notice the impact I have on the lives around me. 

We are all connected and influence each other in these microcosmic ways. When we become too wrapped up in our heads feeling alone and insecure we convince ourselves that we are powerless, that we are not influencing and changing the world from our mere existence. But the truth is you are. Whether actively or passively we are all influencing the world and the people around us. When we feel insecure about ourselves, the people around us who care will try to help you, but they do not live inside your head, they cannot refute every negative thought that passes through. Only you are there, only you will always be there to shine some light and bring in some positivity. Of course occasionally, your friends and family will be there as well to boost you up. But ultimately you have to present as well, you have to accept their positivity, you have the responsibility of carrying that positivity into your heart. When we don’t accept their good will, when we continue negativity despite support from friends and family, we are hurting them. Being kind to yourself is also being kind to others. 

Of course some people in the world do not have supportive people around them to help, but all is not lost because this positivity ultimately is from within and therefore does not require external influences. When positivity shines out of you, it is reflected in others around you

First we must take care of ourselves before we can take care of others. Similar to the drop down respirators on an airplane, please asssist yourself before you assist others. When I am not taking care of myself and that means identifying my goals, identifying my wants and needs in life, acknowledging my virtues and flaws, taking responsibility for myself by expressing these thoughts and desires to others around me, I am hurting others around me.  When we let insecurities rule our lives we cannot fully share ourselves with others. 

We cannot connect with those around us when we do not first connect with ourselves. We have to work on identifying our personal goals so that when we are in a group other people do not push their agendas onto you. Your goals should align with theirs and together synergistically you achieve your goals together. Of course it is also important to be supportive of each other when our goals are different. But ultimately, we gotta get ourselves together! 

Thoughts for today!

Sincerely,

TSL