2022 Progress on Goals (dependent on mood)

It’s funny to see only 15 days below meh, because the year felt BAD. 130 days of 365 (35.6%) were less than good. It’s interesting how our perceptions don’t always match the quantitative data. It makes me wonder what percent my perception changes. I should look at 2021’s moods, because I consider that more good than bad even though I was bullied at work for 11 months. OK, just checked: I had 103 days below good that year. 28.2%. So somewhere between 28 and 36 percent of less than good days is a neutral perception of the year. Weird…

It’s also interesting that it feels like I mostly spend my life working. But it looks like I relax and workout more than I am at work. I suppose the NUMBER of incidents and the HOURS per activity impact this. Sure, I find time to watch TV while I eat dinner nearly every day, but for a brief time. While I’m clocked in 8+ hours. Same with treadmill–yeah, I do it EVERY day of my life, but the longest mile is no more than 15 min (and I probably average 12min/mi).

Things I did well on:

Running and watching TV to relax are the activities I did more than 70% of the days of the year. I also worked out in some manner 84% of the year. It looks like less, because I broke it down into specific types.

Things I need to work on:

30.7% of days in 2022 I did something towards moving.

26% of the days I was tired all day, which probably impacts the next two stats.

26% of days I was anxious–why does it feel like so much more?!

25% of the days I was irritable.

15% of the days I felt stressed out, and I don’t know how that’s so low. Maybe I forgot to log it some days?

Shopping is not really accurate. Amazon has become our grocery store for a lot of food and toiletry items that we NEED. This year I modified 2 categories to track this better: Grocery-NEED and Shopping-Extraneous & fun. Then we can tell how much we’re buying unnecessary things.

An abysmal 5% of the days I talked to my parents on the phone. Partially because of actual packing, driving, and work overtime logistics, partly due to stress making me a tired lump. The time zones are a BIG problem. I am zonked out in the afternoon, and not in the mood to engage, think, be social. So week days are out because their 5PM is our legit bed time. But all of my stuff that I can’t do during work get stacked up on the weekends, so I don’t want to devote a lot of time talking. I think if we shorten the calls, we’ll be able to talk more often. I would also like to start other modes of communication, that are easier, and less time of day dependent.

Dammit! I had just been good at habitually flossing. But it fell apart in 2022. I flossed 59% of the time, which is 36% less than the year before. It just goes to show that you enter survival mode under duress. I want and need 2023 to be more stable so I can work on these things again.

Our water fell by nearly half as well. It’s a lot due to inability to pee just whenever. If you’re home all the time you don’t have to worry about that. If you’re driving or whatever, you can’t just load up on water first. The reduction is also due to the weather difference. Those triple digit temps do motivate you to drink more! Now that things have calmed down, this needs to become a priority again.

15% of the days we had restaurant food. It’s better than our quarantine years (we cut it in HALF), but we need to get this down more.

Reading type of leisure activity fell by 75% because nothing about 2022 was relaxing or calm enough to sit down with a book. But we have so many books I want to read! We’re going to start our creative intervals every day after work again to resume this one. 10 min draw, 10 min read, 10 min write is literally 1% of our day. That’s nothing at all.

writing held its own surprisingly.

I’ll do another post about goals after a few song analysis parts are revealed.