Well, I certainly tried, but it seems that despite sleep being my friend, I am not a very good friend with sleep. Yesterday's accountability list: Stay on my phone for <1 hour X Exercise ✓ Stretch ✓

Not 100% success, but I did hit most of the items on my list yesterday. I still call that a success! Stay on my phone for less than 1 hour ✓ Exercise ✓ Stretch ✓ Meditate ✓ Draw or read an art history

I failed big time yesterday, and I have to take accountability for that. After all, that's the entire point of these accountability lists, isn't it? Figuring out what went wrong. The timing was spectacular,

It's definitely been a bit since I've posted one of these lists. I certainly fell off some of the good habits I had been establishing, so it's high time to resume. I started off feeling quite ambitious

Time to write a positive post for a change. Sometimes it's good to refocus away from the negatives. I like laughing. I like stand-up comedy. I like intelligent humor. Unsurprisingly, I like George Carlin!

I am not used to being unemployed. My entire life I've either been employed or undergoing education (or both) with small exceptions of a few weeks at maximum. Thus, I am in unfamiliar waters right now.

One thing that has baffled me is how some people are total screw-ups in life, yet are able to get by happy and satisfied with themselves. I'm not implying that they are 100% happy 100% of the time, but

Today feels like two steps back after taking one step forward. However, I have to be honest with myself. I am a loser. I am in my mid-30s, unemployed, with no significant other (with no prior girlfriend),

I did not write a discrete accountability list yesterday because there were some other plans which didn't materialize, but fortunately I was to swerve course and keep myself on track! The change of plans

Yesterday was quite a dark day for me when processing my family member's potential and likely diagnosis. Even though it's likely to have an excellent prognosis, we won't know with more certainty for some

Shortly after I published my post yesterday, we received a phone call from one of my family members about a potentially bad diagnosis which requires more testing. We've been working on trying to set up

The past couple of days were rather successful in terms of improving my efficiency. I implemented the little tweak in my phone settings to reduce my time on it in the morning, and as expected, everything

Well, it's been several days since I've last written up an accountability post. The entire point of these is to keep myself sharply following these items as closely as possible. If I can do this without

So many of us are virtually glued to our phones these days. They're like miniature versions of ourselves in one device! Except a few more of these .gifs throughout this post (which I am writing from my

This time the accountability list is going to be very positive... Exercise Stretch Meditate Walk outside ✓ Get off the internet by 4 p.m. Draw or read about art ✓ Go to sleep by 1 a.m. ✓ Watch a TV show

It is 7 p.m. the evening prior to the publication of this post, and I am writing this now because it's something that's "helpful" and "productive" for me. This is instead of going outside

OK, time to be accountable once again! Let’s see how I did with yesterday’s accountability list... Exercise ✓ Stretch ✓ Meditate ✓ Walk outside Draw or read about art ✓ Get off the internet by 9:00 p.m.

Let’s first define owl in the way I intend to use it: someone who goes to sleep very late. I’ve been an owl for a very long time, essentially since childhood. In fact, I typically went to sleep later than

OK, time to be accountable once again! Let’s see how I did with yesterday’s accountability list... Exercise ✓ Stretch ✓ Meditate ✓ Search for new glasses Walk outside Get off the internet by 9:15 p.m.