🎶 You're Unfolding 🎶
It's day 151 of documenting 2025.
Last day in May
What shall I say?
None but God's praise,
I'm alive today!
Happy Weekend my friend 🎀
Another week's gone,
And a new month approaches.
Can I say 'Happy New Month In Advance"?
I think I can...
Yesterday, I marked another milestone...150 days of writing this blog.
I decided to create a survey to get your feedback on this Documenting 2025.
After 7 simple questions, you're free to keep reading.
I haven't gotten any response yet...hopefully, I can get yours.
Thank you for your time ☺️
The recent single by Rachel Platten and Lindsey Stirling (my top violinist) is lit! 🔥
It's called, "Unfolding".
The lyrics are inspirational...
The beat coupled with the violin sound is surreal.
You should listen to it....you'll see what I mean 🎻
And yes!
I finished with chapter 4 of "The Ultimate Focus Strategy" by Martin Meadows.
That is, after reading 365 Days With Self-discipline...also by the same author.
I'll share the recap of the chapter...as well as Highlights.
STEP 4 — STICK TO IT: QUICK RECAP
1. If you want to stay determined, count your successes instead of your
failures.
Focus on the general trends instead of fluctuations or occasional bad
days. Success is an outcome of a long-term process.
2. Whenever possible, keep the process fun and challenging to ensure you
stay motivated and avoid dangerous energy-sucking monotony.
3. From time to time, try to not measure your performance and focus on the
action in itself, with no attachment to the final result. It’s a good way to let go of
performance stress.
4. Accountability is a powerful tool to help you reach goals. You can hold
yourself accountable by reporting to yourself or to other people.
If you choose self-reporting as your method of accountability, don’t forget
that it will only work properly if you use your journal as a way to have a
conversation with yourself, not as if you were forced to prepare a boring report.
Jot down your deep thoughts, questions you have, feelings that arise, etc.
Periodically re-read your old entries and compare them to the more recent ones
to spot mindset shifts, improvements, and to strengthen your resolve.
If you choose reporting to another person, make sure that your
accountability partner doesn’t have a hidden agenda.
A person who hasn’t
achieved your goal isn’t likely a good idea for a partner because they can (often unconsciously) sabotage your efforts or be more invested in your failure than
your success.
Be particularly careful when hiring a coach. Make sure to vet this person as
carefully as you can, and start with a short commitment to get a feel of how your
chosen teacher will work with you.
Don’t accept a person who puts their ideas
and habits over what you need or who ignores how your unique situation
requires changes from their usual approach.
Coaching is not a cookie-cutter
business. If it feels like the coach does not address your unique situation, look
for another coach.
5. Patience is necessary to reach your goals. To develop more patience,
relax so you can better deal with stress that causes impatience.
In addition to
that, practice mindfulness, deliberately make yourself wait to get used to the
discomfort of waiting, put yourself in uncomfortable situations in general to
expand your comfort zone, and rethink what patience means by approaching it as a filter that can help you achieve your goals.
6. Bounce back successfully after a failure by not letting yourself brood too
long over the failure.
Negative self-talk and self-guilt will only make it harder to
resume your journey.
Depending on your preference, either bounce back with a
big bang that will produce extraordinary results right away, or get back to your
previous routine (with no adjustments) and simply continue where you left off.
Yep! That's the recap.
No comments here....just me hoping that you understood a thing or two.
Moving on....
It's time for quotes from the usual read.
What I call, Highlights.
365 Days With Self-discipline
📌 On Changing Your Character
"If you make
disciplined, caring choices, you are slowly engraving certain tendencies into your mind. You are making it
more likely that you will desire the right things and execute the right actions.
If you make selfish, cruel, or disorganized choices, then you are slowly turning this
core thing inside yourself into something that is degraded, inconstant, or unfragmented.
Quote by David Brooks
"If you currently don’t see yourself as a self-disciplined person and your
desires and actions prioritize instant gratification over sacrifices that lead to
bigger rewards in the future, you may feel as if there’s no way you’ll ever
change".
"After all, it’s been your way of doing things for a long time, and it’s
robably already part of your nature now.
Fortunately, while your character takes time to change, it is possible to
change it — with thousands of little decisions and by embracing certain thoughts
over others".
"No matter which area of your
life you are talking about, what now feels like a difficult act of deprivation or a
sacrifice will eventually turn into something you consider essential in your life.
I hope it's true for me 😌
This last paragraph.
I'm leaning into discomfort now...not all times tho, rest is important.
I believe it will pay me later in the future.
Let's go down memory lane.
Blast From The Past
📌 What Bold Decisions Are You Making?
This one is not much of a scroll....but I shared notes and a few of my thoughts.
As I read it, I got reminded of some things I may have forgotten.
That's all for the sections.
Thanks for reading, my friend ☺️
I look forward to hearing from you...by seeing your response on this survey.
And if you want to catch up on posts from last week, visit the main site, Documenting 2025.
I'll see you there 😉
I'm Duon Ada
I'm documenting 2025
And I'll see you tomorrow
Ciao 💕
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