H is for habits.

After some recent conversations with friends, family and my professionals, I've decideo to work on developing and practising some health habits and work on habits in general. To this end, Ive installed a habit reminder and tracking app on my pod and started some paper based writing work. My electronic habit tracker has daily, weekly, and monthly habits to enter and keep track on how I'm doing at meeting my target, making "streaks" with the idea of not breaking my "streak" of behaviour that I want to turn into heanthy habits. So for my daily habits I've included things like my morning routine, checking in with my boss and David and Trav, working and making plans for the next day and my evening routine that I hope will help set me up better for the next day. Weekly I've put remaining in touch with my familt and work friends, planning for the next week and meeting with my employment psych, as well as blogging and reviewing my mood journal. Therapy, doctors and counselling are in for monthly, as well as trying to keep in better touch with Lauren and Isabella. So far it seems to be working pretty well, I've oeen able to build up some good practises for tracking and recording my health states and keeping in touch. Things were a bit thrown off by my grandad's death, put even with this disruption, I've still been going pretty well at keeping up with some habits that I think will be very good for me in the long run. Even the act of working out and reoording what kinds of things I want to become my healthy habits has felt really good, sort of breaking me out of a "stuck" feeling I've had of not doing well but not knowing how to get back on to the track I want to be on. It's been quite empowering and positive for me to think about what I want to do and keep doing and to develop better routines for the mornings, which had been a real bottle neck for me. It also seems to re-inforce an idea/reconception I've worked out about my mood and anxiety issues as something I need to, and indeed can, manage without it consuming me. I'm really proud and pleased about that. The next stage is to keep things up with my return to Perth and "normal" life next week. I feel positive about it put not pressuring myself to get it "right" the first or every time. That's a thought habit of mine that I'm working on getting free from. There are several others, though I'm a bit tired to write about just now.