It all started about a week ago when 
So, I started by submitting my commitment pledge before the deadline. I mean that's the easiest part right. Well if you look closely everything about the challenge is easily achievable. I guess that was the sweetest part for me. Well, I did fail to live up to one part of the challenge. I honestly don't think I can keep up with it.
A quick rundown. It consists of 5 things we should consciously do during the day from Monday to Friday. So I'll just go ahead and list them and tell you how I achieved #1-4 because I didn't do #5
5 minutes prayer/meditation
I must admit I do not pray as much as I would love to. Well, I find it a bit stressful since I do not know what to say most of the time. I feel like I am more comfortable "talking to God" than "praying to God". Please tell me you understand exactly what I mean.
I start my day every day by listening to the Bible. I have this app that provides the audio version of the Bible. So mostly I wake up and click the next chapter and just play it while I shower. But before I do that I say a quick prayer/conversation which lasts around 3-5minutes and that is followed shortly by the scripture so I think I covered the first part.
32 Oz of water
Should I say this was the one that came most naturally to me. I love to drink water. A normal day for me involves at least 76 Oz of water and sometimes I go beyond that. Especially on really hot days like the one we have been experiencing all week. Although I wasn't out in the sun a lot, I still felt the impact in a way. So I took more water than usual throughout the week.
Exercise
Well, I didn't do the conventional exercise which involves stretching muscles and stuff. Well Lord knows I've been meaning to do that for a long time, especially with my constant shoulder pain (one of the side effects of everyday crochet). I would say laziness is the only thing preventing me from actually doing exercise.
However, since walking for at least 30mins counts as an exercise I will have to tick that box as completed. Since every day this week, I have made a conscious effort of walking for at least 30mins. Earlier this week I did walk for a total of an hour and 30 mins which was because I had no choice 😂😂 but let's just include that.
Personal goals
Well, one of my personal goals for the year is to create a new crochet piece every week. So, my personal goal for this week is to create a cardigan for myself. I would say I spend hours on my personal goal daily since I would normally crochet for hours before bed. I work on them at night because I can't do it during the day.
I haven't gone far with this one cause I kinda started late. I wasn't feeling too well at the beginning of the week so I didn't spend as many hours on the project as I would have loved to.
Submit a post to dreemport daily
Now, this is the one I don't think I will ever tick throughout this challenge😂😂 I just don't think I can keep up. I will try my best to get it for 1 week though but it's no promise. Well, unless I can submit another author's post that I think is awesome. I don't know but if that is not allowed then I'll try and get mine in for a week.
So here's week 1 question: What goal/ gift/ability/talent have you been procrastinating on developing?
At first, I thought I had none but when I thought deeply I realized there is one goal I have been pushing back so far because I am scared of failure. I know fear holds us back, still, I just can't help but make excuses as to why I shouldn't do it.
I have been wanting to grow my business IG account and TikTok page to get a wider reach but whenever I want to post and reach more people, there's always the voice in my head telling me " this is not good enough, you need to post the perfect one". I am still working on getting that voice out and stopping making excuses why I should hold back a little longer.
It's been a pretty fulfilling week for me, I must say. It feels good to stay committed to something even when you don't feel like it. I almost didn't submit my post, it's been a stressful day and I struggled to keep my eyes open and my fingers typing throughout this piece but I wanted to do this and I'm glad I could. 1 week down, 5 more weeks to go…
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