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Whilst I was pretty happy with my progress on the previous challenge, I still have some loose ends to tie up so rather than doing anything radically different, on the whole I'm going to keep on pretty much the same course as before. Therefore, my goals are the following: Goal 1: bodyweight exercising 6 days a week BUT THIS TIME WITH ADDED EXTRAS!!!! (CON +3, STA +2) Working out 6 days a week focusing on just one specific exercise each day to condense the time requires really seemed to work for the last time- it was easier to get into the habit of exercising every day rather than every other day and by doing more workouts for shorter times, I got an extra 15-20 minutes in bed each day and felt a hell of a lot better for it. This time though there will be two slight changes: firstly, to increase my general flexibility I will be attempting to add some stretching to my daily regime especially ones that will help with that days exercise. And secondly... Goal 2: PULL-UPS PULL-UPS PULL-UPS! (STR +3) I can currently do 4 so I going to copy a goal from Nymeria's challenge and have a go at the 20 pull-ups challenge http://twentypullups.com/the-training-program/ . I'm not sure if I'll get to 20 pull-ups by the end of the six weeks but if I manage to stick to working on it 3 days a a week, hopefully I'll be able to make so e sort of progress. Goal 3: even more handstand training. (DEX +3) Last challenge I focused a lot on my crow stands and not nearly enough on the handstands. I really want to get to doing a 60 second wall handstand and to start working on getting a 15 freestanding handstand so, despite this being a goal for the third challenge in a row, I'm going to press on with this again. Goal 4: a quiet and tidy mind. (WIS +2, CHA +2) Primarily I'm going to be using Calm.com to do 10 minutes and restful meditation a day but also, as an added extra goal I'm going to be resurrecting an ambition from years ago and get back to constructing my mind palace. So, although the daily meditation is my actual goal, I may well be posting a whole bunch of stuff about learning the name of Shakespeare's plays in chronicle order and weird stuff about loci and mnemonics. I will explain more later.