Resolution Quarter One Tracking
Back at the start of the year I set a number of resolutions across various parts of my life that I wanted to be making improvements in. These broad themes (finance, food, reading, fitness, lifestyle) are all important to my day to day living and making improvements at the margins here I am hoping will help my progress towards building more discipline and small improvements in the way I live my life.
The point is to track and follow these targets to measure progress. As I have discovered over the last three months, some of these were poorly targets (I relied too much on an app that I’ve now decided I don’t like) and some of the targets I think may need amending but contain a value that I am following (more focus on vegetarian eating).
The important thing is to try to remain consistent with these resolutions and make the improvements I can in order to take steps towards the more disciplined world I am trying to create for myself.
The last quarter has been busier than I thought it would be an I am finding that balance between work, home and social lives is needed. Taking a step to just commit to some of the resolutions I am falling behind in, especially in fitness and finance are likely quite easy and could be resolved in the next quarter if I simply apply myself to them.
Maintain emergency cash fund worth 3 months of income
- I have this amount of cash in savings but not in a dedicated fund (which I am fine with). Next step is to expand this across myself and Isabell’s income and explore setting up a dedicated fund.
Organise a joint bank account for wife and I.
- Some time taken here but discussions had on what we want and an email sent to the bank.
- Actually a small backtrack here, largely due to a drop in cash. However, a more aggressive investment strategy may be to blame here as I have put more funds into risker stocks. This should be monitored.
Establish annual financial plan with wife
- Monitoring in place, but no clear plan. Work needed.
Build a weekly budget as a couple
- Not enough work done here.
- Well on track: currently 19 down of 52.
- Having seen a poor record from last year, I spent the last quarter exclusively reading books by female authors. I’ve read one book that wasn’t from the 19 so far.
Read at least ten books exclusively on recommendations from friends
- Limited here — probably (limited information due to poor memory) but likely two. Behind the eight ball here.
Find a new area to read more than one book in
- A couple of areas I’ve read that are new for me: New Zealand fiction and a period drama novel which is a nuanced difference from historical fiction!
Read at least three books written over 100 years ago
- About 1/3 through Meditations but more work to occur.
Contact family at least once a week (or 52 times) when living in separate cities.
- Poor. More needed. Semi-regular conversations with mum and dad.
- Habit app revoked my membership and I got annoyed so am dropping this resolution.
Set regular work goals to measure against
- Good progress here — largely required to manage workloads!
- I need to push this into a regular habit during the day.
Compile all debating resources and make public
- No progress. Sad.
Find a charity to either donate to or volunteer with
- No progress.
Identify an new club or hobby to begin
- No real progress, but have begun a routine involving regular running.
Play at least one game of a new sport that I do not regularly play currently (so not indoor netball)
- No progress.
- On track.
Do 20x10km cardio sets (walking and running allowed but must have both)
- Have completed five times. On track, more deliberate work needed.
- I need to be more deliberate about this but have completed four times.
Achieve 100kg bench press sets
- Good progress was being made but a shoulder injury has disrupted progress.
Achieve regular 100kg standing squat sets
- Good progress was being made but a shoulder injury has disrupted progress.
- No progress. Poor form.
Use five or more reipes from Agean cookbook
- One regularly done but more work to be done here.
- Not done. Would be good to make the commitment. Likely some days that were close but failure to track has been an issue.
- I haven’t done this, but I have adopted a much larger focus on vegetarian food. Most dinners are vegetarian and we rarely buy meat. However, allowing for some flexibility has been easier to manage, so keeping the target but happy with the pathway I am on. ‘
Regularly track my food in the Fitbit app
- Pretty consistent — some off days though where I treat it as a write off which isn’t the best habit to be in.
Limit alcohol to deliberate occasions
- Fairly good at this — but can work harder.
