
Hi Everyone! How was your week 21/52? π
2022 Personal Goals
β Goal #1: Manage my binge eating disorder. Every day, I will track my calories to eat between 1200 to 1700 calories a day. I will record what I eat and post it to this blog to help me better understand what causes me to binge eat.
Eating 1500 Calories a Day: Week 21/52
β Goal #2: Write consistently. 5 to 7 days a week, I will read and follow My 2022 Writing Manifesto.
β Goal #3: Maintain my mental health. 5 to 7 days a week, I will sing three positive songs and sleep before 11:30 PM.
I missed sleeping before 11:30 PM 3 days this week.
β Goal #4: Maintain my physical health. 5 to 7 days a week, I will meditate for 2 minutes, practice 25 minutes of yoga, and do 10 minutes of weight lifting or cardio.
β Goal #5: Read books to gain knowledge and new perspectives. 5 to 7 days a week, I will read for 30 minutes and I will write down my favorite passage/what I learned on this blog.
This past week, I greatly enjoyed reading Elizabeth Gilbert’s Big Magic & City of Girls, and Glennon Doyle’s Untamed.
I’ve longed to write a novel about promiscuous girls whose lives are not necessarily destroyed by their sexual desires.
Elizabeth Gilbert, City of Girls
β Goal #6: Become more organized. 5 to 7 days a week, I will spend 10 to 30 minutes organizing.
β Goal #7: Become more physically active. Every week, I will do 1 physical activity like hiking, table tennis, swimming, etc.
I forgot to take a picture but I speed walked for 1 hour this week.
β Goal #8: Improve my listening skills: Every week, I will listen to one podcast or TED talk, and write down what I learned in 1 to 5 sentences.
This past week I listened to Design Matters: Dylan Marron, Conversations with People Who Hate Me
From this podcast, I learned that in the 558-minute Lord of the Rings Trilogy, there were only 46-second of dialogue spoken by people of color. And that was mostly due to the movies being produced in the 2001 to 2003 time period. It wouldn’t happen today but a lot of our protagonists in media are still white.
β Goal #9: Emulate Krista Tippet’s (Winner of the National Humanities Medal, Peabody Awards, Webby Awards) way of speaking. Every week, I will listen to Debbie Millman interviewing Krista Tippet and record a passage of Krista’s that I want to emulate.
β Goal #10: Remember my late father through cooking. Every week, I will post one recipe to this blog to remember him.
I realize that every week that I’m struggling more than usual with my eating disorder, I don’t want to think or write about food.
Week 21/52 Goal Summary
β Goals completed: 8
β Goals not completed: 2
This week’s completion percentage: 80%
Dear readers, how was your progression towards your 2022 goals? π
The starting quote made me think. Growing up, I didn’t know what was possible for Asian Americans to do in America because I didn’t see role models or them being portrayed in mass media. I watched a lot of TV and movies, and in my formative years, it was mostly white. The POCs represented on TV were African Americans (and a few Hispanic). Nothing Asian, other than caricatures. I’m glad things are changing.
I’m glad times are changing and am looking forward to more POC protagonists in the future.