Week 1475

I have put off reflecting on this week for a whole week at this point. It felt like a week that I could have squeezed more out of yet I was feeling crushed under the weight of the stresses I was facing. 

At work, there have been ongoing situations that I am not in complete control of that have been weighing on me heavily both at work and outside of it and I have been thinking a lot about how I want to approach them and the best approaches that I can take. 

It feels like more and more of these situations are piling up on me at the moment and I just want them to be solved. Some of them are situations that I create by going beyond what I need to do and others are situations that have been created by others or by unexpected circumstances. 

I will get through them and they will be solved but this week some of them got more complex before they got better. 

Despite that, I continue to go to the gym, take care of our pets, and show up to help my wife anytime that she needs help moving furniture for her business. 

I simultaneously feel like I am not doing enough and this felt like a week that I squandered. 

I have been thinking increasingly about what I want in the future—which is funny because it feels as though the future is all I ever really think about—and with this I have begun to realize that I don’t think I can handle being sedentary for 40+ hours a week every week for the rest of my working life. 

Taking care of my body this past year has been an eye-opening experience with the impacts that it has had on my mind and my body and I love the idea of being able to do that more in the future. 

Since college, the idea of owning a gym has been in the back of my mind. I have thought about having a nice home gym so I don’t actually have to go to the gym but the more I go and am in that environment, getting to connect with others doing the same thing, the more I think I might miss that if I only ever worked out at home. 

I like getting better and encouraging the people around me and I love seeing others grow and progress—even if it’s from afar. 

So I am going to take little steps towards that by exposing myself to what it is like working in that environment. I know a few gym owners and will be talking to them about their experiences. The good, the bad, and everything in between. 

I already have exposure to helping people with another key life discipline but health is pivotal and the idea of being a proactive contributor is alluring to me. 

I can’t remember everything that we did this week but I am 90% sure I helped Syd destage a property and we forgot tools for taking furniture apart so I loaded just about everything I could into the Uhaul while waiting for her to drive back home to grab stuff. 

She also was able to get a new stage this week for someone living in their house while it is staged so we will see how that goes (I know how it goes but I have to foreshadow a bit for you, right?). 

I wasn’t great about Japanese practice (written) this week and think it would be beneficial for me to practice this earlier in the day. I have continued to watch a lot of anime. 

DBZ is a bit slow relative to newer anime shows so I have been watching more Demon Slayer and MHA on the side. I understand significantly more Japanese now than I could a couple of years ago, even with the reduction in hours spent focused here. 

Music is kind of boring me at the moment, so I have been listening to Mark Bell’s Power Project. 

The really old episodes aren’t nearly on par with the current quality so I have been working through the episodes in the 500s. 

I think I got Syd a Switch 2 this week for her birthday later this month and it has been fun getting to connect and play Mario Kart with here while we wait for the new Pokemon to release.