Sunday, February 25, 2018

February Check-in

How is everyone?

I'm terrible!

I accomplished nothing in January so I reset the goals for February. Let's review, shall we?

January February goals:
1. Research skin care options and start investing in them (including drinking water).
2. Explicitly target my mental health by finding a therapist.
3. Improved sleep hygiene: develop and implement a nighttime routine one step at a time.
4. Make my peace with turning 30 (therapy should help).

My birthday was terrible. It was essentially ignored by all the people I know except my parental figures, so there goes goal #4 decimated. I did at least get some of my skin care products and I ordered the rest for myself so I now have a pretty decent routine down, going on 4 weeks. I haven't especially noticed any improvement in my skin but it is sort of soothing anyway.

I tried contacting about 4 different therapists, one refused to see me unless I came in at 11, which means missing work. One thought they could schedule me and upon returning the call they were suddenly not taking new patients. I haven't heard back from the last two. So I'm trying but I haven't really gotten anywhere yet.

I am doing better...ish? about my nighttime routine. I'm not quite hitting my 11 o'clock deadline every night but I'm not far off. I definitely need to work on avoiding electronics after 10. But I've been doing great at getting up earlier. It hasn't reduced my anxiety about getting work done, but I'm awake anyway.

To sum up:
1. Research skin care options and start investing in them (including drinking water). DONE
2. Explicitly target my mental health by finding a therapist. IN PROCESS
3. Improved sleep hygiene: develop and implement a nighttime routine one step at a time. IN PROCESS
4. Make my peace with turning 30 (therapy should help). NOPE

Please tell me you are doing better than I am.