Indeed, time flies so fast and before this month of June end I want to make things different and more meaningful.

My life lately has been focused at work, perfection, and making sure that every aspect of my work should be in flow, and also a bit distracted that leads me to easily get irritated, neglect the feelings of others, missed working out, and overlooked the undeniable blessings that I have.

“Am I close to being an a**hole? Or Am I a complete a**hole?”

No, I don’t want to be an a** for life, because it doesn’t benefit me nor the people around me.

In order to get rid of my nasty behavior I believe that I need to change and integrate the following in my life:

Having A Good Quality Sleep – I can boast to anyone that I can function well for 3 – 4 hrs sleep but do I? Well, in the surface it appears to be productive but in reality it compromised the quality of work, relationships, mood, and how we function as a whole. So I’m aiming to have at least 7 – 8 hrs uninterrupted sleep.

Reading Good Book – I’m an avid reader a couple of years ago but something has changed and of course I don’t want to blame my full time job for it. It is really an issue of time management especially the overuse of smartphone.

Monitor My Smartphone Use – My usual smartphone use is over 4hrs and that’s insane. So to fix this, I added a screen monitoring widget on my phone and check which apps I spend the most time on.

Accept That It’s Okay to Get Bored – When I get bored, my go-to coping mechanism is endless scrolling on YouTube and Facebook. Well, that’s great until it manipulates your emotions, make you feel anxious for what’s going on in the world, and make you insecure to the achievements of others. Of course, I won’t completely ditch those apps especially that there are part of my job that still requires them. I just need to configure the right settings of it to make sure that I don’t spend too much time on them.

Daily Exercise – We have a group chat where we submit our exercises daily and if I don’t feel to doing it, I’ll just take a few walk and upload it as my exercise log. Whew! It feels like a subtle cheating to me and I believe I can do better than that.

Eating Healthy Foods – If I aim for a healthy mood it’s also a big factor of what we prepare in the kitchen. When it comes to eating healthy, we are doing pretty well as we have enough veggies and fruits on a daily basis but the challenge is, I’m still addicted to energy drinks, which, in reality is not really providing energy at all. Plus, it’s hard to get a healthy foods when I’m traveling. Hmm… I guess I should start learning to prepare meals before leaving the house.

Ending thoughts:

There’s so much that I need to integrate in my life but as a rule of thumb. I should take it easy as I go to this path. Let’s see how this initiative unfolds.