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Sunday, October 23, 2016

Goals


In two months from now, I will be turning 18, officially entering adulthood. This made me realise that I have to organize many things by myself, handle more responsibilities and think about the future some more, and fast. This mainly started when I got a letter from the government telling me, well, almost exactly that. So I quickly applied for financial aid and other simple, online, grown-up things to make me feel like I've done something. However, in all seriousness, it is time to really think about what I have to get done in my gap year, aside from improving my skiing, and starting on achieving those things.

Of course as soon as I thought I would start doing all those things, I got ill. It's just the flu, but it doesn't help with my torn eardrum. I was specifically told not to blow the ear out of my ear, since that is essentially the same as picking a scab. I was doing pretty well on that, until I noticed that when I blow my nose, I also blow air out of my ear. I hope this does not slow down the healing process too much... At the moment, I am feeling a bit better and ready again to start sorting out my goals and how to achieve them. I also have my first appointment with a personal trainer tomorrow, which will help to be fitter next season, so that I can improve faster.

Ultimately my goal is to be able to go to the gym twice a day, 5 times in a week. This way I can go before lunch and before dinner for example, which will activate my body twice, rather than going for longer in one go. Of these 5 times, twice will be together with the personal trainer. In between and on the days where I don't go to the gym, I hope to work on some projects I have been meaning to start. Though what I've realised is that I might need to set myself  a deadline for each project, because otherwise I find it difficult to start, and especially finish all of them. As I also have to work from now on, all this together will get me into a 'normal' rhythm again, like when I went to school. This will help in having a productive gap year, and also in going back to school afterwards. Since I stopped skiing, I have very little rhythm or content to my day, aside from working and working out. I would like to change that, and hope that by having it black on white here, I will be extra motivated in doing that.

I feel like there's no going back now, and I will be committing to what I have said above. Since I was ill for most of the week, I didn't do much else. I did work on some core stability exercises from Breanne Dodd, which gave me a good muscle ache (a sign that I should practise those more often) so I would definitely recommend them, check it out here.

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