Montag, 28. März 2016
I thought I add another video for the musical enjoyment
That's, where I got it. It was in the Channel of Letterkundige Museum. Just to say: don't own it.
Breakfast-Habit-Challenge
I'll try, if I can add every day by editing this text. That way it won't be a one word post every day. That's only causing clutter. Not neccessary. ANOTHER CHANGE: it will last until the 26th of April, since only then I will have completed 30 days.
So to start:
28.03.2016 Done
29.03.2016 Done
30.03.2016 Done
31.03.2016 Done
01.04.2016 Done
02.04.2016 Done
03.04.2016 Done (Sundays I sleep in)
04.04.2016 Done
05.04.2016 Done
06.04.2016 Done
This was day ten and so I decided, that tomorrow I started another 10-Day-Round. I tweak it a little.
From tomorrow on, I'll have one small green Smoothie with my breakfast and some vegetable. Salad, cucumber, that sort of thing. Unless of course, when I have Oatmeal for breakfast, then there will be some fruit or nuts or something similar healthy.
Thank you all for accompanying me on my way to a healthier living. I can say, that I have already lost 3,2 Pounds or as I way it 1,7 Kilos. Though the Pound way sounds somehow better. :)
07.04.2016 Done Though I had to hold back not to switch to my desk to go online.
08.04.2016 Done Day off today. Wanted to post photo, but didn't work from mobile.
09.04.2016 Done Today with porridge, fruit, smoothie and hot water to drink
10.04.2016 Done Today I hope, the photo works...
It did. Hooray
So to start:
28.03.2016 Done
29.03.2016 Done
30.03.2016 Done
31.03.2016 Done
01.04.2016 Done
02.04.2016 Done
03.04.2016 Done (Sundays I sleep in)
04.04.2016 Done
05.04.2016 Done
06.04.2016 Done
This was day ten and so I decided, that tomorrow I started another 10-Day-Round. I tweak it a little.
From tomorrow on, I'll have one small green Smoothie with my breakfast and some vegetable. Salad, cucumber, that sort of thing. Unless of course, when I have Oatmeal for breakfast, then there will be some fruit or nuts or something similar healthy.
Thank you all for accompanying me on my way to a healthier living. I can say, that I have already lost 3,2 Pounds or as I way it 1,7 Kilos. Though the Pound way sounds somehow better. :)
07.04.2016 Done Though I had to hold back not to switch to my desk to go online.
08.04.2016 Done Day off today. Wanted to post photo, but didn't work from mobile.
09.04.2016 Done Today with porridge, fruit, smoothie and hot water to drink
10.04.2016 Done Today I hope, the photo works...
It did. Hooray
Now for identification of the greenish stuff: that's my smoothie. With basil, salad, cucumber, banana, pineapple, orange-juice and apple. You don't actually taste the green stuff. It was only important to have it in. Not to taste it. :-)
11.04.2016 Done And yet another monday. Have to be in early, too. :-(
12.04.2016 Done A hasty breakfast, yes. But at my table at home
13.04.2016 Done Today I have off, so it was leisurely :-)
14.04.2016 FAILED I'll have to start fresh tomorrow...
15.04.2016 Done I told you, I'd start afresh today. And I did. :-)
16.04.2016 Done Porridge with nuts and banana and tea. On the balcony. :)
17.04.2016 Done Scrambled Egg, bread with mustard spread, Avocados and
black tea with milk. It is Sunday and I had time to "cook".
And yes, it is the same mug I used yesterday. I do clean my mugs after use. :-)
18.04.2016 Done Only just realized, after posting yesterday, that I have started
the last 10 days. Amazingly, only one failure-day. :-)
19.04.2016 Done A hastier one then usual, but a breakfast at my table.
20.04.2016 FAILED just didn't have any time this morgen, which is why I failed.
21.04.2016 Done Pick yourself up, dust yourself off, start all over again
22.04.2016 Done was a little rushed today, so I'm late updating. Sorry!
23.04.2016 Done tomorrow we have a brunch, so I will be very late again
24.04.2016 Done o.k., I could have written earlier. I'm sorry.
25.04.2016 Done was rushed again. :-)
26.04.2016 Done! and this concludes the official part of my habit change.
My next change will be: getting up before 6.00 am every day. That will be hard, but it will be.
There are so many open and hidden advantages, that I decided on tackling this next.
Sonntag, 27. März 2016
Zen Habit Change Style
One my way to minimalism and simplyfying I came to the book by Leo Babauta: "The Power of Less" and apart from writing, what I knew, that you need about a month to change a habit, since I wrote that somewhere else, he also wrote, that one should change one habit at a time and make oneself accountable.
So I decided to make myself accountable in this blog. But with what habit? You will doubtless wish to know. Well. Since I am to start small, I start with having my breakfast, every morning at home at my dining table.
This may sound weird, but I do not always have my breakfast, if I have it, it is not always at home and then it isn't always sitting down. For some time I managed to have my breakfast as described above and it was good for me. I had a regular meal, I did not feel the need to eat before lunch and I steadily lost weight, which is very good for me.
There is another reason to choose breakfast. The book or rather its author stated, that one should find out ones values, goals, what one loves, what is important to oneself, what has the most impact, what the most longterm impact. What do I need and what do I want?
In my case: among several other things I value my health. My goal is to become healthier and keep that way. Again, among other goals. I love my family and friends and my health, which is important to me, has the biggest and the most longterm impact on my life. What do I need? Health, what do I want, eat what I like, when I like.
So what would you say? Health is uppermost in my life and so I made this one big goal: Get Healthy and stay that way. BUT that's not all, or rather quite a lot. So I divide it into subgoals.
Change my eating habits.
Change my sleeping habits
Change the food I eat
Start excercising
Loose 19 kg = 38 Pounds (in Germany, we usually count in kilos, not pounds or I do)
All these Subgoals I can break into projects and since I am to have no more than three projects, that take no longer than a month, but of which one is at least goal related, here are my projects, starting tomorrow, Easter Monday:
1. have breaktfast every morning at home, at my table, sitting down.
until April 25th 2016
2. research green smoothies = find out about vegetable smoothies to get more iron in
until April 1st 2016
3. finish the task from last week at work
until April 3rd 2016
I don't think, that it'll take me so very long to find green smoothies on the internet and I
can buy supplie on my local farmers market on April 2nd. So that's done. I can have a smoothie every morning with my breakfast.
As to what I eat for breakfast. At the beginning, that is determined by what is in my pantry and my fridge. But since I have already stopped buying the very unhealthy stuff for breakfast and have eliminated (the unhealthy way of eating it up), what I had, it is not such a bad choice.
So!!! Wake up:
For the coming month in the light of accountability you will have a blogpost every day, just to tell you, wether I did have my breakfast at home, at my table sitting down.
It will be:
done for success
almost for breakfast at my office desk
at least I ate breakfast for breakfast on the run.
lost for no breakfast at all.
Let us - or at least me start the games. Although, I started yesterday, but I wanted to start on a monday officially.
Oh: I do not set a particular time, since my wake-up-time-habit-change comes later. :)
All the best and for all the christians or those who hold the feast: Happy Easter!
So I decided to make myself accountable in this blog. But with what habit? You will doubtless wish to know. Well. Since I am to start small, I start with having my breakfast, every morning at home at my dining table.
This may sound weird, but I do not always have my breakfast, if I have it, it is not always at home and then it isn't always sitting down. For some time I managed to have my breakfast as described above and it was good for me. I had a regular meal, I did not feel the need to eat before lunch and I steadily lost weight, which is very good for me.
There is another reason to choose breakfast. The book or rather its author stated, that one should find out ones values, goals, what one loves, what is important to oneself, what has the most impact, what the most longterm impact. What do I need and what do I want?
In my case: among several other things I value my health. My goal is to become healthier and keep that way. Again, among other goals. I love my family and friends and my health, which is important to me, has the biggest and the most longterm impact on my life. What do I need? Health, what do I want, eat what I like, when I like.
So what would you say? Health is uppermost in my life and so I made this one big goal: Get Healthy and stay that way. BUT that's not all, or rather quite a lot. So I divide it into subgoals.
Change my eating habits.
Change my sleeping habits
Change the food I eat
Start excercising
Loose 19 kg = 38 Pounds (in Germany, we usually count in kilos, not pounds or I do)
All these Subgoals I can break into projects and since I am to have no more than three projects, that take no longer than a month, but of which one is at least goal related, here are my projects, starting tomorrow, Easter Monday:
1. have breaktfast every morning at home, at my table, sitting down.
until April 25th 2016
2. research green smoothies = find out about vegetable smoothies to get more iron in
until April 1st 2016
3. finish the task from last week at work
until April 3rd 2016
I don't think, that it'll take me so very long to find green smoothies on the internet and I
can buy supplie on my local farmers market on April 2nd. So that's done. I can have a smoothie every morning with my breakfast.
As to what I eat for breakfast. At the beginning, that is determined by what is in my pantry and my fridge. But since I have already stopped buying the very unhealthy stuff for breakfast and have eliminated (the unhealthy way of eating it up), what I had, it is not such a bad choice.
So!!! Wake up:
For the coming month in the light of accountability you will have a blogpost every day, just to tell you, wether I did have my breakfast at home, at my table sitting down.
It will be:
done for success
almost for breakfast at my office desk
at least I ate breakfast for breakfast on the run.
lost for no breakfast at all.
Let us - or at least me start the games. Although, I started yesterday, but I wanted to start on a monday officially.
Oh: I do not set a particular time, since my wake-up-time-habit-change comes later. :)
All the best and for all the christians or those who hold the feast: Happy Easter!
Montag, 14. März 2016
Plans - How I love to make them
I am not as enthusiastic about doing something about their realization though.
BUT: I do not have this problem with plans that require a lot of work.
Sometimes a plan is made and perfect. Now: who am I to perfectionate the perfection? Exactly.
Realizing the plan might ruin it.
Other plans wether they require a lot of work or just hard work or longterm work, I fulfill. Not everyone of them, but a good number.
Then there are those plans, that sound good, but turn out really very bad or disappointing.
And some things - a lot really - I do unplanned. Like moving the furniture in my flat. Buying wool to knit sox. Going to the cinema to watch a film.
***
There are times, when I have made a plan for every last second in the next 80 years for myself. That is the dangerous point, when I start making plans for others. Because I am in general very convinced about the success of my plans. And though I am writing it myself: it is born out of former success.
Very often plans or ideas I voiced to others and that they actually followed, were very successful. Sometimes plans that I made for myself, but discarded for one of the above-mentioned reasons (or even other reasons) turned out to work for others.
The thing about planning stuff for other people is: they live a completely different life and they think very differently than what I think (was that a real sentence?),
Sometimes, I figure that in and those are the most successful plans. Sometimes I ignore it, but that doesn't mean the plan won't work. It often does, because I ignored the difference.
At the same time it can happen, that it only works for a while, then the person I planned for gets bored with the plan or life comes inbetween and so they stop. Or they just come to a point, as everyone will at some time in life, where an add-on is needed. Where one has to adjust a plan.
That's good or bad or neutral. Depending on people, circumstances and plan.
I will go on planning so be afraid: be VERY afraid...
And I made a plan for myself. :) a longterm one. I will pay off my flat and save very hard and get it renovated and while I do all that, I reduce my living-costs as low as I can without depriving me of human contact, health, happyness and decency. But in the spirit of minimalism I empty my life of the superflous stuff. And the better I get at that, the better I'll be able to reduce my working hours.
And with that increase of time, I can improve my count of acts of kindness, which can do with improvement.
Don't get me wrong: I won't wait with the acts of kindness until I am able to go down to about 30 hours a week or even 25, that I will start immediately or rather have started already. But I will increase the amount of time I put into this.
I will not, however, spend all my freed time to do good deeds. I will spend some time just being me.
And that means: being alone. Without people or noise or movement. I will be. So what do I do: I do life and I do it the way I like it. Which is the best way to do life.
I could of course thing of stopping my work altogether, but I happen to like my work and the people I work with. So I don't see any reason to leave before my time. And it is a nice thought to be able to go home, when others have to stay. Or let's make it a little nicer: stay by choice because they can't see the sense in working less. It means earning less. Yes, it does. But if I earned more, I would only spend more on STUFF. I want less stuff. So: less money makes it harder to get stuff. I like that.
BUT: I do not have this problem with plans that require a lot of work.
Sometimes a plan is made and perfect. Now: who am I to perfectionate the perfection? Exactly.
Realizing the plan might ruin it.
Other plans wether they require a lot of work or just hard work or longterm work, I fulfill. Not everyone of them, but a good number.
Then there are those plans, that sound good, but turn out really very bad or disappointing.
And some things - a lot really - I do unplanned. Like moving the furniture in my flat. Buying wool to knit sox. Going to the cinema to watch a film.
***
There are times, when I have made a plan for every last second in the next 80 years for myself. That is the dangerous point, when I start making plans for others. Because I am in general very convinced about the success of my plans. And though I am writing it myself: it is born out of former success.
Very often plans or ideas I voiced to others and that they actually followed, were very successful. Sometimes plans that I made for myself, but discarded for one of the above-mentioned reasons (or even other reasons) turned out to work for others.
The thing about planning stuff for other people is: they live a completely different life and they think very differently than what I think (was that a real sentence?),
Sometimes, I figure that in and those are the most successful plans. Sometimes I ignore it, but that doesn't mean the plan won't work. It often does, because I ignored the difference.
At the same time it can happen, that it only works for a while, then the person I planned for gets bored with the plan or life comes inbetween and so they stop. Or they just come to a point, as everyone will at some time in life, where an add-on is needed. Where one has to adjust a plan.
That's good or bad or neutral. Depending on people, circumstances and plan.
I will go on planning so be afraid: be VERY afraid...
And I made a plan for myself. :) a longterm one. I will pay off my flat and save very hard and get it renovated and while I do all that, I reduce my living-costs as low as I can without depriving me of human contact, health, happyness and decency. But in the spirit of minimalism I empty my life of the superflous stuff. And the better I get at that, the better I'll be able to reduce my working hours.
And with that increase of time, I can improve my count of acts of kindness, which can do with improvement.
Don't get me wrong: I won't wait with the acts of kindness until I am able to go down to about 30 hours a week or even 25, that I will start immediately or rather have started already. But I will increase the amount of time I put into this.
I will not, however, spend all my freed time to do good deeds. I will spend some time just being me.
And that means: being alone. Without people or noise or movement. I will be. So what do I do: I do life and I do it the way I like it. Which is the best way to do life.
I could of course thing of stopping my work altogether, but I happen to like my work and the people I work with. So I don't see any reason to leave before my time. And it is a nice thought to be able to go home, when others have to stay. Or let's make it a little nicer: stay by choice because they can't see the sense in working less. It means earning less. Yes, it does. But if I earned more, I would only spend more on STUFF. I want less stuff. So: less money makes it harder to get stuff. I like that.
So the plan is: earn money by not spending it in order to be able to earn less and feel great!
Sonntag, 13. März 2016
Here I blog again......
well hello there. After not having written anything for month on end, I thought: hey, you got this blog, it's boring to only write in your diary (and I do that with an actual pen *gasp*), so write "to" other people.
So I write again and to day I write about minimalism. This is a concept, that isn't actual new to me, but that very often gets out of my focus. For the time being, it is back in my focus.
The reason it came back lies in my health, after decades of mistreating my body with shitty food, my body shot back. So now my gallblader ist almost bust and will eventually to be hauled out. My thyroid-measures (I was born with an underfunction of the thyroid) were bad, my try-glycerides were bad and - for the first time in my life - my iron count wasn't too thrilling. Oh and I forgot my allergy to histamins.
The good news? My cholosterol was good and so was the blood-pressuere and there is nothing wrong with my heart. Well, that's something!
How to improve the rest though? Well, change what I eat. Actually, there is not much that I can still eat or drink. I thought! BUT that's not true. There are a lot of things I can eat, just hardly anything of the stuff, that I liked. The fatty, oversalted stuff.
I do like sweets, but if I had to choose - disregarding health-issues for the moment - between no more fatty and salty stuff or no more sweet stuff? I'd choose no more sweet stuff.
The question doesn't arise, because for me, it is far less fatty and salty stuff and leave off sugar.
What has all that to do with minimalism? I made me change my eating habits or at least start to, that meant, mainly, that I had to change my shopping haits as well. Which resulted in less money spent for food.
Unfortunately, it resulted in more money spent for STUFF. Probably to compensate. So instead of weight and health-issues, I accumulated more stuff. I write more, because I already had more stuff, than I needed.
Then, in 2014 we had to count, how long any single work-process takes us in minutes. It turned out, in my case: not many. That led me think: why would I work a 41 hour work, if I don't need that time to do my suff? So I started calculating (and I am severly maths-challenged). It turned out however, that I could reduce my working hours - and with that my salary - down to 35 hours a week and still have more money than I need for a comfortable life. Sounds like a dream? It is true though.
Well partly. I did reduce my working hours, but not my spending. YOU do the maths now..
Still: I got back SIX valuable hours of my time. Six hours to spend as l like and use sensibly or senseless. Well, I started off with senseless. I did not absolutely work. But partly. I felt relieved, because I did not have to work so much. But I did not use the time properly. So, I searched for MORE Sense, Value, fulfillment.
Before I started working part-time in 2015, I had ordered a new fridge. Mine was old, not energy-efficient and beginning to fall apart. So I got me a new fridge, engergy-efficient and a bargain to boot. That meant, that I had to clear out my kitchen.
Did I clear it out: I carried out FIVE trashbags, three boxes and one of those pull-along buggies for shopping. I am still possessed of to many kitchen utensils and I mean: I AM POSSESSED, not I possess. Still: it is much less and I am continually reducing the stuff. Throwing away, giving away, selling.
Next off was my closet. I have had my since 1997 and closets get a lot of wear and tear. So two of three doors did not work properly anymore, the shelves loosened then and one pull out thing (don't know the correct name right now) started to fall apart.
I was lucky though: my uncle and aunt are going to chance flats and they gave me there closet. A very good closet and I got it for free. It meant however, to clear out my closet
and let me tell you: for a person, that dislikes clothes shopping as I do (and that started at about 6 years old) I had A LOT of stuff to get rid off. Another six bags, this time to donate to a clothes collection, three bags of trash, nothing to sell. While I was at it, I got rid of a lot of books in my shelves, though those are in my cellar right now. But I chucked out about 250 books.
This left one shelve free for my extrensive DVD and audiobook collection.
I have only just started to get rid of these and will go on purging here.
Much more is my collection of audiobooks from i-tunes. And my collection of dysfunctional i-pods.
And my collection of e-books is getting bigger. So far I only lost one e-reader, I am happy to tell.
So: as a minimalist, I am a work in progress, but I am continually progressing and I got virtual help from several books and websites. I only name the websites here now, you go along and look in, they are very helpful and interesting.
The minimalists.com www.theminimalists.com
Zen Habits http://zenhabits.net/
Becoming Minimalist http://www.becomingminimalist.com
Exploring alternatives http://www.exploringalternatives.ca/
And - because I think, that one fits with the others:
Random acts of kindness. https://www.randomactsofkindness.org/
I think, that they each have a blog, a facebook-account and are on google+, twitter, instagram, youtube, you name it.
They are all worthwhile and if you don't think so, there are a lot of people finding, that minimalism in one way or another is the life for them.
Because the one thing I learned already is: There is no ONE version of minimalism. It's individual!
All the best to you (oh, I put the links for those websites on in a while, but I am not only mathematically-challenged, it stretches out to technical stuff. :-) ) Well, as you can see above: Done!
So I write again and to day I write about minimalism. This is a concept, that isn't actual new to me, but that very often gets out of my focus. For the time being, it is back in my focus.
The reason it came back lies in my health, after decades of mistreating my body with shitty food, my body shot back. So now my gallblader ist almost bust and will eventually to be hauled out. My thyroid-measures (I was born with an underfunction of the thyroid) were bad, my try-glycerides were bad and - for the first time in my life - my iron count wasn't too thrilling. Oh and I forgot my allergy to histamins.
The good news? My cholosterol was good and so was the blood-pressuere and there is nothing wrong with my heart. Well, that's something!
How to improve the rest though? Well, change what I eat. Actually, there is not much that I can still eat or drink. I thought! BUT that's not true. There are a lot of things I can eat, just hardly anything of the stuff, that I liked. The fatty, oversalted stuff.
I do like sweets, but if I had to choose - disregarding health-issues for the moment - between no more fatty and salty stuff or no more sweet stuff? I'd choose no more sweet stuff.
The question doesn't arise, because for me, it is far less fatty and salty stuff and leave off sugar.
What has all that to do with minimalism? I made me change my eating habits or at least start to, that meant, mainly, that I had to change my shopping haits as well. Which resulted in less money spent for food.
Unfortunately, it resulted in more money spent for STUFF. Probably to compensate. So instead of weight and health-issues, I accumulated more stuff. I write more, because I already had more stuff, than I needed.
Then, in 2014 we had to count, how long any single work-process takes us in minutes. It turned out, in my case: not many. That led me think: why would I work a 41 hour work, if I don't need that time to do my suff? So I started calculating (and I am severly maths-challenged). It turned out however, that I could reduce my working hours - and with that my salary - down to 35 hours a week and still have more money than I need for a comfortable life. Sounds like a dream? It is true though.
Well partly. I did reduce my working hours, but not my spending. YOU do the maths now..
Still: I got back SIX valuable hours of my time. Six hours to spend as l like and use sensibly or senseless. Well, I started off with senseless. I did not absolutely work. But partly. I felt relieved, because I did not have to work so much. But I did not use the time properly. So, I searched for MORE Sense, Value, fulfillment.
Before I started working part-time in 2015, I had ordered a new fridge. Mine was old, not energy-efficient and beginning to fall apart. So I got me a new fridge, engergy-efficient and a bargain to boot. That meant, that I had to clear out my kitchen.
Did I clear it out: I carried out FIVE trashbags, three boxes and one of those pull-along buggies for shopping. I am still possessed of to many kitchen utensils and I mean: I AM POSSESSED, not I possess. Still: it is much less and I am continually reducing the stuff. Throwing away, giving away, selling.
Next off was my closet. I have had my since 1997 and closets get a lot of wear and tear. So two of three doors did not work properly anymore, the shelves loosened then and one pull out thing (don't know the correct name right now) started to fall apart.
I was lucky though: my uncle and aunt are going to chance flats and they gave me there closet. A very good closet and I got it for free. It meant however, to clear out my closet
and let me tell you: for a person, that dislikes clothes shopping as I do (and that started at about 6 years old) I had A LOT of stuff to get rid off. Another six bags, this time to donate to a clothes collection, three bags of trash, nothing to sell. While I was at it, I got rid of a lot of books in my shelves, though those are in my cellar right now. But I chucked out about 250 books.
This left one shelve free for my extrensive DVD and audiobook collection.
I have only just started to get rid of these and will go on purging here.
Much more is my collection of audiobooks from i-tunes. And my collection of dysfunctional i-pods.
And my collection of e-books is getting bigger. So far I only lost one e-reader, I am happy to tell.
So: as a minimalist, I am a work in progress, but I am continually progressing and I got virtual help from several books and websites. I only name the websites here now, you go along and look in, they are very helpful and interesting.
The minimalists.com www.theminimalists.com
Zen Habits http://zenhabits.net/
Becoming Minimalist http://www.becomingminimalist.com
Exploring alternatives http://www.exploringalternatives.ca/
And - because I think, that one fits with the others:
Random acts of kindness. https://www.randomactsofkindness.org/
I think, that they each have a blog, a facebook-account and are on google+, twitter, instagram, youtube, you name it.
They are all worthwhile and if you don't think so, there are a lot of people finding, that minimalism in one way or another is the life for them.
Because the one thing I learned already is: There is no ONE version of minimalism. It's individual!
All the best to you (oh, I put the links for those websites on in a while, but I am not only mathematically-challenged, it stretches out to technical stuff. :-) ) Well, as you can see above: Done!
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