1. I'd say my most successful goal is probably meditating every day. I am currently on a 15 day run, which is the longest I've held for a over half a year probably. The sessions have moved on from 'plain' mindfulness and now developing more exploratory attitude. In them, once you're settled, you ask a question or replay a certain type of memory and then observe what feeling or emotion arises. It might be a question like 'How would you feel if you knew that today was you last day?' Or remembering a time some did something nice for you.

Once you've become aware of the emotion, you settle into it for the rest of the session. Sometimes they're pleasant, sometimes not so much. The idea is to become more aware and familiar with the emotions and states you feel in response to the things you say and do. I have found it really grounding and its really nice to come out of a session feeling like you've really let your mind and body be free.

2. My most frustrating goal has been learning to code. The Codecademy website Python route seemed really good, until it said: "okay, let's practice, do this without our help now" and I quickly found that I hadn't actually learnt much. It is lackluster on the explanation and reinforcement of concepts and syntax and goes way too fast, in my opinion. I have now signed up to a one month free trial on Treehouse instead and it already seems 100% better. One thing I can take away from Codecademy is I think I enjoy coding and it motivating me to continue. It's just its method, for Python anyway, seemed a bit too shabby. I might return to it at some point, we'll see.