Like a circle in a spiral

[venta]

Very slightly over a year ago, I wrote:

So, for 2014: evaluate life. Work out how to fit things in to it. Learn new stuff.

At the end of March, I wrote my first quarterly report on the resolution, which decided that progress was, frankly, not brilliant

Comments

[ar_gemlad]

I recommend reading the Zen Habits blog highlights, especially the Zen to Done bits. It works on the principles of habit building.

[ar_gemlad]

http://zenhabits.net/start/

(Now I'm on a computer with a keyboard and my bookmarks!)

[venta]

Thanks! Not heard of that, will give it a try.

[motodraconis]

Being terrible at yoga is part of its appeal! I used to go to classes and be embarrassed that little old silver haired biddies were so much better at it than I was. Then I realised that this is in fact - awesome! Maybe one day I'll be a silver haired old biddy making some youngster embarrassed. I'm out of practice now though, but hopefully I'll return to it properly one day.
It's liberating, yoga is great for being non-ageist. It's not how fabulous your body is - anyone can get good with enough practice. In the meantime, enjoy being hopeless! I did. :D

[venta]

Ooh, I definitely enjoy yoga, despite rubbishness. The class I go to doesn't seem to have many silver-haired old biddies, disappointingly. Not sure if this is because the time/venue (Soho, 6.30am) means it's more biased towards people on their way to work. Ashtanga seems to be popular with blokes, so the classes are less female-biased than I'm given to understand is often the case.

[davefish]

I try to compensate for inepitude with enthusiasm. This doesn't usually work so well....

My ashtanga class is about 20% blokes though the yoga conditioning class was about half and half.

[shermarama]

The Bikram yoga classes I'm doing average out to about one-third men, I think, which is good for me because I feel I've generally got more difficulties in common with the men than with other women. But going yesterday reminded me to come here and say: now is definitely the time to restart, if you're thinking of it, because the classes are full of New Years Resolutioners and you will feel far more competent by comparison :)

(Also, hooray to someone using 'yog' as the verb. I keep wanting to but had assumed it wouldn't be understood.)

[venta]

I used to do a lot of Pilates years back, it helped but I didn't enjoy it very much. Also, I lucked out with the first instructor I had, and everyone else was a bit rubbish in comparison after that. Yoga I at least enjoy, and both the physio and the hospital specialist agree it's a good idea, so I think I'll stick with it.

Hope your first session went well!

[deborahw37]

UFYH is a site I've not seen before but one I shall now peruse so thanks for that. Best of luck in your resolutions

[venta]

Interesting to see someone else's routines, thank you for sharing! One of my besetting problems is lack of routine: a Friday evening might be in at home, out at a gig, traveling to a weekend away... Which makes it hard to stick to a this-happens-on-Fridays rule. Which is all resolvable with planning. I just don't (apparently) plan :)

[deborahw37]

oh the Friday thing is just for standard Fridays .. when Fridays are non standard ( a gig or theatre or meal out or travelling or indeed working) then I have to adapt but even if the routine is only for Fridays spent at home it can still work quite well,

Routines are pretty good as long as they support you rather than rule you.. though the physio thing has to rule me because without it I can't walk very well if at all and that tends to be a bit of an issue :)

[sammason]

It's good to know how you are. Your idea of 'at least one decent chunk of un-planned time per week' is a very good one. I used it while still able-bodied, marking a day each week H in my diary to mean HOME. Often I, or the people around me, would try to chip away at my HOME days but mostly I resisted that temptation. It was great.

[venta]

I used to label some days in my calendar NQNI, I should definitely restart that. It stands for "nice quiet night in".