I’ve decided to post monthly updates to give myself a little accountability and to remind myself that progress is still possible during these long weird months of isolation - now over a year.

Physical activity

Empirically I keep noticing a connection between mental health and physical activity, so why do I not consistently act on it? So I set up a 3 month goal around commitment to exercise. As of the end of March 2021, I’m on-track to meet those goals.

• Exercised on 28 days in March
• Aerobic exercise (mostly running and fast walking) for 1,072 minutes
• Running/walking for 90 km (56 miles)
• Did shoulder mobility exercises on 27 days (I have a severely limited range of motion of the left shoulder due to frozen shoulder/impingement syndrome.)
• Lifted weights on 29 days.

Russian

I studied Russian on all 31 days in March 2021.

• Added 189 new words to my Anki vocabulary deck.
• Added 294 new sentences to my Anki sentence decks.
• Practiced pronunciation for 246 minutes
• Listened to Russian language podcasts or other audio on 22 days

Reading

Meh. I’ve gotten behind on this goal.

Accomplishments

• Successfully completed Tessa’s Kiwanis Music Festival videos. - This involved accompanying, recording, editing, uploading and corresponding with the festival organizers.
• Set up a goal-tracking spreadsheet that applies the concept of personal OKR’s (Objectives & key results)
• Put in place a successful aerobic exercise program.
• Created a Keyboard Maestro macro that converts Markdown in an Anki field to HTML