Sunday, January 01, 2017

2017: Habits to Inculcate

"Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify" - Henry David Thoreau

As the new year dawns, I am thinking of subtracting things from life, consolidating time and just focus on developing long term habits which will ensure good health, happiness, simplicity and peace of mind.

So here is what I intend to focus 20% of my time in the year 2017:


  • Health: 
    • 90 mins of focused physical activity everyday: I have been walking regularly for 40-45 min in morning and playing badminton 30-40 minutes in evening. Intend to make it consistent and convert walking to running.
    • Eat 6+ small meals: Need to increase proteins and eliminate white/processed carbs
  • Skill:
    • Learn Coding: Will continue my codecademy program and learn Java, Javascript, SQL and Excel
  • Happiness:
    • One Habit with Priyanka: We need to spend time together on one activity of common interest - Can be walking, dancing, cooking (interferes with health one above) et, al.
    • Dreamlining: Here I can go limitless, though caveat is substituting consumption (alc, food,reading etc.) with producing/doing - Spending time with Family, Driving Cars, Dancing, Movies, Writing, Meeting people, Traveling etc. Key is to put a timeline to it.

With the simplicity manifesto in mind, I am restricting it here :).