Declutter: 3 Things I've Been Doing Pretty Consistently in 2020

I fall under the category of human beings that never could keep consistent in terms of working on personal goals/tasks that they initially intended to do. But this year, I've kept consistent in some aspects of my personal life. I personally feel that it's a significant breakthrough for myself, being able to be consistent in the things I do and with relative ease! I ain't even mad, I'm impressed!

Here are three things I was never ever consistent about and never in my life, thought I'll ever be in my entire life but somehow managed to be so far:

1) Blogging

Damn, I had always been erratic when it came to blogging, only posting an entry subjected to my mood. This year, I kept a constant stream of content coming in at least once a week. Writing a post a week has worked wonders in many other aspects of my life - I use blogging as a platform to keep myself accountable and to reflect freely, opening up more headspace.

2) Reading

Okay THIS. This is something I wished I did more in my younger days. I never thought in the entire 25 (almost 26) years of my life I would take so much interest in reading. Like, seriously. I could never finish a chapter of a book in my ENTIRE life and this year I have so far finished FOURTEEN books?! WHAT. Even. Abigail, HOW? Here's a list of books I've read so far and I have asterisks those that I highly recommend to the general audience :)

1. Poor Economics - Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo 
2. Flash Boys - Michael Lewis  
3. Atomic Habits - James Clear (*)
4. Billion Dollar Whale - Tom Wright and Bradley Hope 
5. The Charisma Myth - Olivia Fox (*) 
6. Factfulness - Hans, Ola & Anna Rosling (*) 
7. The Bullet Journal Method - Ryder Carroll 
8. The Technology Trap - Carl Frey 
9. Becoming - Michelle Obama 
10. I will Teach You to be Rich - Ramit Sethi 
11. Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life - Albert Liebermann and Hector Garcia 
12. Sapiens - Yuval Noah Harari (*)
13. A Ride of a Lifetime - Robert Iger 
14. Bad Blood - John Carreyrou (*)

3) Digital Declutter

I used to have someone who had countless emails subscriptions left unread that I said I'll get back to later and never did. My desktop was also a mess - filled with icons and shortcuts that I too would get back to later. While I am pretty organised when it came to my profession work, my personal laptop was sub par. While digital clutter seem pretty innocent at the beginning, taking up no tangible space, I personally feel it gets pretty overwhelming to constantly look at in the long run. I end up losing track of what I've done or ought to do because I've ended up misplacing contents that "I'll get back to later". I've since cleaned up both my emails and desktop - every item on my computer now has a "home", things I want to find are never lost and it always takes very little effort to clean up digital clutter once it in a while :)

Side note: I made healthy bibimbap today and it was amazing x) had to share some of my proud moments in photography. Xiamei approves - cooked egg also courtesy of her lol.

Happy Sunday!