This week has been a roller coaster of emotions and some disruptions to existing routines.

I decided to stop funnelling the audience from my social media accounts to my website. Why? It’s not really helping me build an audience. Let’s just say it’s a waste of time.

I was supposed to start creating IG carousels for my blog this month as a way of getting my Instagram followers to my Medium account where I write. It was also a way to gain the skills of creating posters and learn about typography. I still find it to be a good idea to pursue, however, I don’t really have the time to commit.

I decided to use this month to plan what I should write next month.

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Finished reading Nicolas Cole’s book on writing. This prompted me to focus kibosh the IG carousel content and focus more on figuring out what the online world really wants me to write about.

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My meditations are started to feel like they’re not serving me any purpose anymore.

Maybe they are, I just don’t feel or notice it. So I decided to do 20-minute guided meditations once a week and do 10-min unguided meditations. Tried it a couple of times and it gave me that feeling I’m looking for when I initially started meditating.

When a habit becomes ingrained into your daily life, it gets to a point where it becomes boring.

And so I try to change things up or make things a little more challenging.

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I had an opportunity to clean my inbox of about 1000 unread emails.

I felt the FOMO after doing it but at the same time, it feels like I can be less distracted. I don’t feel the need to create time to read those e-mails, regardless of how valuable they are…

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I’ve been doing intermittent fasting for about a month now using Fastic.

However, when I noticed how fasting affects the stuff I need to do at home and my personal life because you know, I have to follow a strict schedule. I figured that skipping a day of fasting is a cheap price to pay for giving my daughter the attention she needs right at that moment. 

Sure, I can delay giving her the attention she needs after I finished doing whatever the heck I need to do. But by then, she probably already lost interest and think that I’m not giving her the attention she needs.

These are all assumptions but you never know what gets recorded in the child’s memory.

This recurring issue of prioritizing between my own to-do list and family obligations comes up a lot. But because I’m now a father, my family’s needs come first before mine.

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False alarm. Lexi is ok.