March 10th, 2021 – 896

~ Sam Shuttleworth

So I think I figured out what I’ve been doing wrong. My routine is in good shape right now, but I find I end up with a spike in fatigue when I make major changes. That’s all well and good, but when the wall of awful you are trying to power through with exercise is preventing me from exercising. That is a troubling oversight, and one that kinda fell into a mental blindspot. See, I’ve been using CGPGrey’s “Spaceship You” video as a way to model my new life pretty much ever since he posted it like 10 months ago, and I always try to prime my wellbeing with physical exersise. Rewatching it for the umptienth time today, I realised he says it’s easier than priming with the mental. He doesn’t say I can’t prime with the mental.

Writing aside, I have decided to take up a new mental hobby to try and have a neutral ‘mental exercise’ activity: pixel art. Not too much to show for it yet, but here is the desk I am hoping to get:

Published by Sam Shuttleworth

I’m Sam, and I live to write. I spent most of the first 8 years of my adulthood trying to balance writing with a large amount of crap in my personal life, until towards the end of 2018 I threw everything out and started afresh with just my writing. I built the new me around one goal: I have to write at least 1,000 words a day. I called this goal 1K, and it changed my life. So long as I write a thousand words a day, the day is a success, and atop that I've managed over time to build the life I wanted all those years. My greatest flaws as a writer is I still use too many adjectives, adverbs, connectives as openers, accidental passive voice and I don't force my work down people's throats enough on pain of extreme and unusual torture. My greatest strength is I know my greatest flaws and I'm working on them.