Monthly Review: May 2020

And another month has passed! This month was particularly challenging for me, I found myself feeling aimless about what I wanted to do, why I was doing what I was doing and was deprived of the social interactions I needed during this circuit breaker period. I guess in some way my emotions could be observed in my blogposts.

The things I did didn't make sense anymore - I felt like I was going through the motion. I needed a break from everything and I'm I did. This month, I didn't follow my habit tracker completely - perhaps about 60-70% of times yet some habits do stick. I somehow managed to complete some of my goals.

Thanks friends who decided to video call me, send things over to me I really appreciate the effort :(

•  Stick to a workout regime - 1/2 initially yes, but I felt I was being too hard on myself so I kind of stopped halfway through and switched to regular walks and translated the rest of my energy to watercolour painting haha 
• Read 1 book - 1. I read 3 books this time 
•  Becoming - Michelle Obama 
• I will Teach You to be Rich - Ramit Sethi 
• Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life - Albert Liebermann and Hector Garcia 
• Eat healthily - 1/2 I realised I struggle with this whenever I am at home, but I'm slowly finding out how to 
• Wake up early - 1/2  initially yes, and then I completely failed lol - I'm writing this at 3am in the morning 
• 5 hours to myself per week - 1. of course. Rather, I needed a social life lol 
• Understand my personal finance better - 1. I'm pretty happy with this tbh! I thought I would have failed on this but 3 things I'm proud of - I understand my spending philosophy. I now have a complete tracker with a monthly plan, a regular savings plan, completed insurance coverage, savings and expenditure goal. I'm hoping to refine this! 
• Improve on 1 language - 0 this is a tough cookie lol but hey I still wanna work on this :) 
• Blog once a week - 1.

Things that went well:

• I knew when I was going down a slippery slope and kept myself aware of my issues. Though I still struggle I felt like I knew when I needed to pause to stay afloat. Side note, I finished my 30-day challenge yet again. Crazy! 

Things I could improve on: 

• I feel like I'm too hard on myself sometimes? I was doing things for the sake of doing and I waiting for time to pass very unhealthily. Ikigai was a very timely read for me to take it slow and enjoy the present moment. 

I give thanks to God for this experience and for allowing me to appreciate things better. Though I don't say it at all, I'm really grateful for the people around me. I really made good friends.

Good night~