Actually, I’ve been having more random thoughts recently and I thought to myself.. I need to get it all down somewhere. Just seems a waste when they occupy your brain for a few days, where you’ve spent time and energy thinking, processing, working it through only for those thoughts to be forgotten. I sometimes find these thought resurface at a point in the future and then I go through the whole process again of massaging the information and going through scenarios in my head.
Ok, so just going to put some down here in this….
My Vlog / TikTok venture
I was thinking of logging my achievements of the year… not that I have any particular goal that I want to reach but I do think it’s important to log some progress. I actually started a TikTok channel at the beginning of the year as a video vlog to do this and it was meant to be anonymous… I didn’t link it to my contacts, I didn’t use my name, I didn’t tag anyone I knew in my real life but yet, at one of my childs birthday party, this dad came up to me and said “Hey, I saw your TikTok channel.. I let my son watch it! I’ve followed you!” I was mortified, not that I had anything too personal or incriminating but because I wanted an outlet where I can blurt out whatever I wanted anonymously. I only had about 3k followers at the time so have no idea how he managed to find it. I did ask him and he said it just came up on his fyp (for you page – I learnt this on TikTok). Anyway, I’ve disabled it now.. seems a waste of the 3k follower build up.. took a lot of energy and I also learnt how difficult it is to speak off the cut to a fixed camera.. people say that I’m quite good speaking to people but talking to my phone camera which doesn’t provide any visual feedback is not easy!
Fitness
I’ve joined a local Crossfit gym.. I use to go to Crossfit before I had kids. I noticed the dadbod was getting out of control so wanted to take back control. The great thing about Crossfit is that it’s totally accessible.. yes you get some crazy ultrafit 20 year olds but everything is scaleable and now that I’m coming up to my 50s.. I’m finding that I can’t do all the moves but it’s fine… Crossfit is fine like this.. it’s a really inclusive vibe. However, I started off with a niggling backpain which I saw off with a chiropractor and now I have this muscle pull / pain in my forearm so can’t lift heavy weights.
Illness
Usually I get ill once a year.. but this year, I got ill (when I say ill, I don’t count the small colds) like 3 times. When I’m ill I’m miserable and have no motivation to do anything. I eat a lot too when ill.. not sure if that’s because the body needs more energy to fight it. Still, the illness meant that I couldn’t get to the gym and it slow my progress down generally this year for all my endeavours. Wondering if it’s an age thing or whether the bugs out there are more contagious / harmful.
Time and Money
We all want more time and money in life! However, time at work is how most of us make money.. it’s a trade off. I work as an independent consultant so I get paid to work.. if I take day off to give myself more time, then I don’t get paid. When we book holidays, it’s usually around the time when I can maximise of public holidays (this is usually Easter or Xmas) and then I just take the minimum. I finally got the thought in my head that I need to take more holidays… don’t worry about the money.. money I can get back but time I can’t.. my kids are growing up unbelievably quickly! I want to enjoy with them as much as I can whilst they are young and I’m still relatively fit and mobile.
