It’s hard to believe the road that 2020 has taken. If I wind back the clock to the end of 2019, and trying to welcome the new year with open arms, it feels like a lot of my goals went up in smoke when the Coronavirus hit.
Even though I primarily work from home already and have been used to living where I work all the time, I hoped to use the lockdown as an opportunity to check and change my daily habits. I completed a thirty day cycle of yoga, walked around my neighborhood almost every day (while wearing a mask / social distancing), and gradually replaced coffee with tea and more water. Over the summer, as COVID ran rampant, Black Lives Matter movement rose across the country, and political antics became overwhelming, my anxiety and depression acted up to the point of dropping my habits and not being able to get back on track since. I dropped off of social media – deleting my Instagram and other accounts – and just wanted to disappear.
Even with the election looming, and the outcome for the year feeling bleak, I still want to extinguish the dumpster fire that is 2020 and try to start over. Atomic Habits by James Clear (non-commission link) recently popped up on my ebook library at my library and offered hope to change direction.
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