#analog hobbies

[ghoulgirl56]

Finished knitting my first ever swear 🥰🥰🥰

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journals, sweet treats, and flea market music finds!!

from july in my notebooks video

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27.06.26

New and old. The new: have started dabbling in watercolor. Picked up a set of watercolor pencils on impulse; I've always wanted to learn to sketch, but the clarity of lines feed my vice of overcritiquing my learning. The perfectionist's paralysis. Painting has always been easier in that way - the medium forces a level of abstraction that helps me focus on the beauty of the craft rather than my own inexperience - but paints don't feel as portable. Stumbling on watercolor pencils, however, presents a new alleyway to explore. Hope to build a habit.

The old: returned to journaling. Much, so very much, has happened. Growth is change, and change requires loss, always. Have lost. Have changed. Have grown. Flipping through old journal entries illuminates as much, but also exposes how curiously stylized my writing is - phrases running over and into one another, fluid and interwoven, an extension of how I think. It feels impossible to unweave my thoughts from one another, combing and carding and drawing and spinning them into a single thread. Breaking tangled connections between ideas, smoothing them down into something understandable, transmittable. A necessary bargain; complexity for connection.

🎶 reckless and arranged - Ethan French

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Studying as much as I can (1/21)

Let me tell you, yesterday was a productive day! I managed to wake up at 6 a.m. easily, and the day went well after that.

I did some more research about study tips on that Instagram account I mentioned, and here's what I found out:

- It is good to have previously defined times to use screens

- It's good to have analog hobbies, that don't involve screen time

- It's good to have some time to be outside, to get some sun and fresh air

- I must seek a susteinable routine, meaning something that I can maintain for a long time without getting absolutely exhausted

- It's good to enjoy vacations and holidays. I will try to plan some trips during these times

- There's no need to buy expensive study materials to succeed. Sometimes we correlate rich privilege with success

- There are some tips to change habits:

1. Do a list of pros and cons

2. Study about risks and benefits of the habit

3. Make plans

4. Have short-timed, small objectives to reach, and have a map with these objectives

5. Have reminders

6. Try to avoid relapsing

7. Have a social network of people who also want to change habits

- It is good to focus on health over aesthetics when thinking about food and exercise

- It makes things easier when I have a map of step by step concrete objectives I can complete in order to reach my dreams

Ok, so after this research, I did some stuff. I researched some stuff to do during my end of the year holidays. I don't think I'll manage to travel a lot (money...) but I can still explore my city. I searched my Instagram and ended up with a bunch of restaurants, museums, libraries and beaches I could visit:

It's all in Portuguese because, well, I'm Brazilian!

I also searched the net for some analog hobbies I could do during the day, specially to avoid being glued to screens all the time. I work on screens, I study on screens, by the end of the day I NEED some other stuff to do other than looking at more screens. Here is the list:

Analog hobbies:

- Reading

- Gardening

- Walking

- Crosswords and analog puzzles

- Calisthenics (like push-ups)

- Stretching

- Listening to music

- Martial arts

- Lifting

- Cooking

- Journaling

Many of these I could do turing my Pomodoro intervals, like the push-ups. Ok, modified push-ups, I'm a big potato, and can't manage full push-ups yet. I went on Hybrid Calisthenics and got some modified versions. During my Pomodoro intervals I did some incline push-ups and bended knee-raises.

I think walking will be good too. On the longer intervals, I can take walks around my building. That will get me some sun and fresh air too! And I need it, I stay inside my apartment almost all day.

Cooking is a good one too, to do during longer intervals, and will help me meal plan and work on healthier eating!

So... about the study... I actually managed to study full 2 hours yesterday! Yay for me! Let's see if I can keep up with this! I consider this a success!

Sleep: 8h

Magnesium: yay for pumpkin seeds!

Therapy: had a session and got more homework to do

Exercise: rest day. But still got some calisthenics in

Vitamins: nope. Fuen fuen fuen

Water: 4 full bottles (2 L)

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