Designing a Well Lived Life: Checking In (July 2021)

Checking in for July for my "Designing a Well-Lived Life" blogging. This
is about making small changes during the year to make larger changes.

• Work on my game projects at least three times a week: This month was
  also difficult for me to do anything related to game design. I found
  myself struggling to do my normal work and found that game design
  was just something extra to add to that pile. I'm going to take
  August off from doing game design just to recharge myself and
  determine if this is something that I still want to pursue.

• Meditation and mindfulness: Not as much as I would have liked.
  Whenever I did take the time to meditate I enjoyed it, and whenever
  I slowed down to be mindful I felt more relaxed and present. Useful
  skills, but I don't tend to remember to do them as often as I
  should.

• Work with less distractions and more focus on deeper work
  (Relentlessly prune bullshit): I've been finding myself doing this
  organically with my desire to pull back whenever I'm overloaded.
  Still need to work more on the pruning piece (I'm still not quite
  where I want to be regarding non-bullshit) but can say that there's
  been movement on this.

• Walk or ride the recumbent bike at least four times a week: Warm
  days make it more difficult to do this, though I have brought out my
  juggling stuff to do more exercise. Also the exercise bike got
  folded up when we had the possibility of a flooded basement, so I'll
  need to unfold that again.

• Get further out of debt: Making progress on this. Can see the light
  at the end of one of our credit cards. Still spending too much on
  physical and PDF books. I think part of that is looking for comfort.

• Play more games: You'd think this is an area I'd excel at given the
  stressors of the month. Leave it to me to turn playing games into a
  chore. WE did manage to play a game of Azul on the last day of the
  month, but overall I'm struggling to get the energy to do any solo
  roleplaying or to sit down and play literally any games (Zaccaria
  Pinball notwithstanding). Need to give myself more fun and
  exploration.

• Spend at least one night a week working on programming projects:
  PyOhio was yesterday and it's the firs time in a while that I have
  thought "I should do more programming" in a long while. Maybe August
  could be the month where this gets more attention.

• Declutter and make our place more alive: Trying to keep stasis
  between incoming and outgoing. Made some headway, but more to work
  on here.

Overall the month was more about maintenance than anything. I think
August will focus more on recharging and refocusing.Ever onward.

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