100-day Self Foundation Rebuilding Project
Ever since I read the books “Miracle Morning” by Hal Elrod and “Manage Your Day-To-Day” by 99U some years ago, I started to believe in the power of having a productive morning routine because I saw the benefits of it when I was fully applying it. I was more at peace with myself, I had more confidence, and I get more things done. Every single day that I get to do my morning routine, it felt like it’s one step in a series of steps that will eventually lead me to where I want to see myself someday. However, that morning routine stopped some years ago and I find that I couldn’t really get in to the habit anymore. It’s like battling my worst enemy within myself every single week that I plan out to finally get back to my routine.
A few weeks ago, I had an idea to start a project for myself. I thought, 100 days could be a good time for me to start rebuilding my personal foundations to eventually stop hating myself more and start liking myself again like I used to about 2-3 years ago. But this time, I will take it slowly but more solidly. I used to set a plan for my week with loads and loads of tasks only to wake up the next day already feeling defeated for being so overwhelmed. So I end up hitting all the snooze buttons until I had already wasted hours of my day in bed. If there’s a competition for being the best procrastinator around, I could definitely win by a landslide. LOL.
I love Saturdays, and because of it, I made Saturdays the start of my own personal week. So I started this 100-day self foundation rebuilding project last Saturday, May 20th. My goal is to get to August 27th, 100 days later, and see how much I’ve improved and hopefully be on my way to hating myself less and start liking myself again. For the longest time, I feel like crap, I look like crap, I think like crap. Ugh. I feel like at my worst for the longest time, but I so want to change it, hence, this project. This time, I decided that what I will do is start my first week with about 3-5 habits that I want to do daily and then adding one habit each successive week, and then blog about it so I have some documentation about my journey.
For this first week, I’m keeping it low-key. My main goal was to actually make my apartment clean and sorted out which I was able to do last weekend. I just need to do the laundry, but most of the chores were already done. I find that it’s more conducive to a better well-being if my habitat has less clutter. Apart from that, here are the habits I want to start doing this week:
Habit #1: Drink vitamins and supplements
Habit #3: Read the “Basic Principles of Success Mechanism” from Psycho-Cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz
Habit #4: Do a quick tidy up of my apartment a bit (make my bed, wash dishes, throw my garbage, sweep the floor, return things to where they should be)
Habit #5: Beauty regimen before going to sleep.
Also, along with these, I’m setting myself to finish reading at least 2 books and watch at least 3 movies each week. I also want to finally stick to my Bullet Journal and update it daily. I’ve been doing BuJos since, I think, February of last year. I already own 2 black Bullet Journals, the official ones that came from the bullet journal website and not just the Leuchtturm 1917 medium hard cover dotted notebooks. It’s actually hard to get hold of any of those and I had to order it from the US because none of those are available here. I’m trying to recall who was the Youtuber that I watched that made me discover about this journal system, but it was not until I’ve discovered Boho Berry that I got to really appreciate the system more. Anyway, maybe this whole Bullet Journal can be made for another post. For now, what’s important is that I get to stick with those first 5 habits before I start adding more to it in the coming weeks. I’ll try to update this blog every Friday, which is the end of my week, for any progress, challenges, and whatnots. I have to get back to work so bye for now. xx
