Resolutions

I’m going to start working on my New Years’ resolutions for next year. I want to continue waking up early, and my current schedule is conducive to that, but when I return to the US that may not be the case. If I ask my parents to help me there, I’m sure they will, though. And it may depend on my job situation too. My next goal is to continue with my regular journaling. I think the key to this is to find a good time to do it. I wanted to do it at night, but I’ve decided that this isn’t a good time because my willpower is low, my outlook is more negative, and sometimes I just want to sleep. Now I typically write in the middle of the morning, which I think works well. Probably one hour after I wake up starts the ideal time, with the deadline being shortly after lunch. Starting this weekend, I’ll try making journal entries right after lunch when I’m at home.

Those two goals I’m already doing well with, but then I have two more goals that I want to start or improve. First is exercise. Until recently I went to the climbing gym about twice a week and biked to work about three times a week, and I also did push-ups once in the morning and in the evening. I think this is sufficient, but I would like to do a little more so that I can see more results instead of just maintaining health. Also, as winter approaches I suspect that biking will be less feasible and I will be less inclined to brave the cold to go climbing. Therefore I need to find a way to work out in a less affected environment, most likely being my own apartment. If I find a good way to do it, I will continue it at home. Right now the only thing I’m really motivated to do is dancing, but I don’t think I would be comfortable doing that inside because of the building structure, and it requires a way to see myself so doing it outside would be difficult as well as embarrassing. So what I need is a fitness RPG, but I’ve only seen a few options, and they don’t look too promising.

The other goal is working on my spiritual life. The first step to this is, I think, waking up early, but so far when I wake up early I just spend my extra time on an idle game. If I wake up an hour early like I did today, maybe I could convince myself to postpone gaming for half an hour. Or actually, in the next couple of weeks I should get to a point where 24 hour rebirths are more profitable, so at that point maybe I will feel less urgent about gaming first thing in the morning. I’m still not sure how I would go about it though, which might be part of my problem. If I read the Bible, I get frustrated with how little I understand, and I would spend any time in meditation thinking about that probably. Jumping straight into prayer though reminds me how much I need to read the Bible. It’s a painful cycle.

If I were to make a fitness RPG, how would I do it? I would want it to be like an idle game, but where progress is enabled by working out. If I’m sweating, obviously I would rather not touch the computer, so I would be entering stats at the end of the workout rather than throughout. But actually instant gratification is more ideal, so maybe eventually I will make it so that I could see results with a very small amount of input (a few keystrokes and a click).