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Week 1, 2022

Saturday 1 to Friday 7 January 2022.

As usual, I've made a new year's goal to start week noting again. This year feels different though.

In the middle of December 2021 I started a new drug for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) called Atomoxetine.

It feels like it might be having an effect, as I've put a lot more effort than usual into thinking about what I want to get out of 2022.

Over the xmas break I iterated the following routine, habits and goals.

Routine

A daily sequence of things I do:

1. Meditate (10 minutes)
2. Exercise:
   • knees on Monday, Wednesday and Friday
   • cycle to therapy and office on Thursday
   • running on Tuesday
3. Skin care
4. House keeping:
   • clean
   • groceries
   • make lunch and dinner
5. "My time":
   • health goals
   • read / study
   • talk to a friend
   • private work
6. Civil Service:
   • senior delivery manager
   • community manager (10% time)
7. Complete daily exercise goals:
   • 13,000 steps
   • 10 kilometres
   • 3,000 calories burnt
   • 30 active zone minutes
   • 35 floors climbed
8. Reflect on the day:
   • anti-sabotage
   • gratitude
9. Skin care
10. Meditate (at least 10 minutes)

Habits

Things I to do all the time or as needed:

1. Ask how this will impact climate change
2. Be quiet and:
   • actively listen
   • count to 7
   • think before I do
   • let the silence do the heavy lifting
3. Be honest about:
   • my feelings
   • things I don't know
4. Avoid meet and sugar
5. Ask why and why not a lot
6. Celebrate success
7. Pomodoro technique
8. Have some fun

Goals

Things I'll complete by the end of the year:

1. Health goals including:
   • find a therapist and fix my self-sabotage
   • maintain a healthy weight
   • run a half marathon
2. Read 25 books
3. Complete decorating the house
4. Pick a hobby and practice it
5. Civil Service:
   • work "above this level" for all senior delivery manager skills
   • run monthly Gov DMs in the Ether events (10% time)
   • organise DeliverCon event (10% time)
6. Build up my private work
   • monthly Community Manager's breakfast club
   • find 100 government community managers
   • figure out how to get on G-Cloud or DOS
7. Weekly week notes on a Friday
8. Start doing some volunteering
9. Have a week where I don't throw away anything that would end up in a landfill