So it occurs to me that lifelong healthiness probably relies more on healthy habits than healthy thoughts, so I want to take up some more healthy hobbies. Right now my only really hobbies are watching tv, reading, and sewing.
Today at a presentation, the speaker mentioned that if you aren’t sure what you want to do, you should try everything you are interested in. He was talking about different types of engineering, but I think that applies to other things as well, esspecially hobbies. He also mentioned that there are lots of people who talk all the time about what they want to do, but they spend so much time talking about it, they never do it. So I propose to make a plan for all the hobbies and interests I’ve been interested in, but never done. When I finish trying them all, I will know better what I want to spend my time doing. I will give each one a month, but will try more than one in that month. As a librarian, I’ve gone ahead and organized the list of things I want to try. Of course, I will not only try these things in the month assigned, but plan to focus on them for that month.
Outdoors/ Athletic
- Biking Tours
- Hiking
- Canoeing
- Rafting
- Jogging
- Soccer
- Camping
- Horseback riding
- Rock Climbing
- Swimming
- Diving
- Swing Dancing
- Motorcycles
- Gardening
- Backpacking
- Caving
- Triathlon
Arts/Creativity
- Piano
- Photography
- Painting
- Singing
- Writing
- Crochet
- Fashion Design
- Attend music performances and go to museums
Other Stuff
- First Aid (strange I know)
- Astronomy
- Shooting a gun/marksmanship
- Spanish
- Cooking
- C++
So to what month are these hobbies/interests assigned?
July
- Horseback riding
- Spanish
- Attend Musical performances and museums
August
- Jogging
- Singing
September
- Soccer
- Photography
October
- Bicycle Touring
- Fashion Design
November
- Writing
- Cooking
December
- Crochet
- Shooting a gun
- C++
January
- Painting
- Piano
February
- Swing Dancing
- Spanish
March
- Rock Climbing
- Caving
- Hiking
April
- Motorcycles
- Astronomy
- Triathlon
May
- Swimming
- Canoeing
- Rafting
June
- Camping
Whew, some of these sound more interesting to me than others and I know they will all take time. I don’t plan to devote more than 5-8 hours a week to these special hobbies. I will spend the rest of my free time on my current hobbies of reading and sewing. The time devoted to it will be time in which I either do it, train for it(aka classes), or research it. I had no idea how many active hobbies I’ve always wanted to try and never gotten around to most of them.
So my hobbies for next month are Spanish, muscial performances/museums, and Horseback riding. I plan to take a class for the Spanish here at Cedar Valley. It’s 3 hours a day, 4 days a week. For the museum/musical performance, I will go to one museum or watch one musical performance in person each week. For the horseback riding, I will call around to some stables and find a reasonably priced trail ride and do 2 trail rides.
For August, my hobbies are jogging and singing. They are easy and cheap hobbies since I’m not sure what job I will have then. For the jogging, I will jog 5 days a week and for the singing, I will try to relearn sight reading and the sound of the different notes and learn to sing a new song through the music rather than listening to it.
Now for September, I have soccer and photography. I will watch at least 2 soccer games on the tv or computer and buy a ball and try to get random family members to kick it around with me once a week. For the photography, I will take my camera everywhere and take many shots and organize the photos on my computer.
I suppose planning my activities 3 months out is enough.
On the diet front, my body is sort of in withdrawl for its carbs since I’ve been good all day. I had an omelet with a few onions and ham and cheese and cilantro for breakfast and a chicken bacon ranch salad from Subway for lunch (no choice since we were out.) So far, so good. I will be hard to resist some of the bad stuff when I get home, but I will make my ice cream and cooking the beef that marinaded overnight and hope that will help. For now, I feel sort of listless and tired and have a bit of a headache. I reckon some of this is dehydration. I am resolved to drink at least 3 20 oz of water per day. I think to do that, I will get 3 water bottles and writing, morning, after work, and night on them and drink them at that time. I’ll also get one and writing work on it and just drink it while I am here.
Posted on June 25th, 2008 by anabolina
Filed under: General
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