My goals are similar to yours. Write every day, or at least work on something writing related. Take longer walks with the dog. At first, it was my winter self that was against it, but my dog is having trouble re-acclimating to warmer weather and is shedding and panting like a motherfucker. Develop a plan to get a better job for the short term Implement my (longshot) plan to get a better job Spend as little money as possible Exercise Stay connected to people I care about Ask people for things, not machines (increase human to human interaction) Do things the hard way Help former students (for free?! yeah . . .) Eat healthfully. Since you're trying to drink a full bottle of water, I wonder if you use a bottle with markings on it, either for mLs or oz.? A friend of mine used those to figure out how much she should drink per hour to meet her goal. She says it helped quite a bit. Frankly, I don't understand how people don't drink 2L at least per day. Then again, I'm a really thirsty guy. Yeah, I'm the sweaty dude at the gym (sorry).
Ah good point. My bottle is 700mLs. I have a bad habit of just drinking all of the water at once. It's like as soon as I start drinking my body realizes how thirsty it is and just wants all of it at once! A "water per-hour" is definitely a healthier way to go about it and I'll try it out. Thanks! You bring up a great point with "Ask people for things, not machines". I tend to try to do as much stuff as I can online or via e-mail as I can rather than in-person or on the phone. My fiance has been trying to get me to do more "talking to people" type things myself but I've been pushing back pretty hard. It's definitely something I need to work on.
Bedouins consume all the water they have on hand as quickly as they can, I don't know what the science of water is, but I have always wondered if people who live in the desert all their lives are onto something here. It might just be a T.E. Laurence lie, I read it in the Seven Pillars of Wisdom, and Laurence made a lot of the stuff in that book up.
If it's not a lie, then I wonder if it's something the body gets used to doing? I've heard that when you're really dehydrated you're not supposed to gulp as much water as you feel like drinking as it causes cramps or some kind of discomfort. I guess I should look up rate of absorption.