I am catching up with posting online my articles.
So I had another day off today. I could not say that this was the second day in a row as yesterday afternoon I had to go and help my friend who had some aches in his back. Anyway today I went to the mountains and it was really nice. I had a really good ( summer like ) weather and I could even take a shower under the waterfall as there was a lot of rain in the last couple of days and the porous, volcanic mountains filled up with water and now they are "leaking".
As I said it was really nice. But then I also thought about going dancing this evening. It has been really long time since I did that and since about 3 weeks I have a strong desire to go and start dancing again. But I thought that if I go dancing in the evening then I will put at risk my whole 21 days experiment. You'll know... this is not about not being able to do the exercises today. Not at all. I would do them. But the point is that I was all day in the mountains. It was fun but at the same time walking through the mountains and climbing the rocks so that I could to get to the waterfalls made me a in a way tired. And then after coming back home I would have to get myself ready quickly and then rush in a car 30-50 min ( depending on the traffic ) to the dancing party. Dancing is fun but at the same time this is a physical exercises which is also intensive. And so I would get back home late and I would finish my exercises late at night. And I would most probably end up being very tired/exhausted. And maybe this would not be a problem this evening but this could carry the consequences for the next day. I could wake up in the morning very tired and fail with my exercises.
This is not a negative thinking. I have been in this situation many times and now I do not want to repeat the same mistakes. I want to do my experiment until the end. I wanted to say here "do it and be done with it" but then I stopped myself. Well... in a way I want to finish it and be done with it because it has been already 70 days since beginning and I am still long way from finishing it. But at the same time the purpose of this exercise is not to be done with it but rather do it as good as possible and see what it brings/changes in my life.
Thus in the end I decided not to go to the dance party this evening despite my desire to do so and stay at home and do my exercises. But in the end finish doing my exercises late at night ( as most of the days ) as I got caught up on the phone with couple of friends who wanted to catch up with me. I really wanted to finish my exercises early but in the end it did not happen. But at least I am not so tired and I should be strong tomorrow for day number 10 of the experiment.
The realisation that came up today is that I must stay with my top priorities no matter what. I can do only certain amount of tasks within the 24 hours and so other things must be put on hold temporarily.
To be continued