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Balsquith regroups I crashed and burned in the last challenge, which fitted into the general scheme of the past 3 months of challenges. Even though there has probably been no difference between these challenges and the 6-week ones, they somehow felt more frantic and I never felt that I was really keeping up. Bizarrely this one week pause has been amazing and I feel really focused for the challenge to come. I will be keeping it simple this challenge and bringing out the best goals from previous challenges in addition to one all new one involving green things. Goals 1. Get up to my alarm everyday This is my oldest goal and the one which I think everything hangs upon. I have lost touch of this again recently and feel more tired than when I have been getting up early. 2. Exercise 3x week Parallettes or getting back into going to the gym – Everything counts as long as I am doing it seriously. 3. Plant-based diet – 50% I am not sure if my nutrition is good or bad – I’m erring on the side of bad. Part of the problem is that I am not entirely sure what is good and bad (and I’m weak and still eat it anyway even if I do know). The one thing everyone seems to agree on is that vegetables are good. Therefore I will aim for 50% of my meals to have vegetables as their primary component. I’m not going to be too strict on myself I just want to get back to being mindful of what I eat. 4. Learning German This was the only thing that really worked to any extent in my last challenge. I have 2 main problems with learning German. 1. I don’t do any study, 2. Everything I do learn I am too scared to use with real people. In the last challenge the model I used (which I will be repeating here) was to aim for 10 points a week attained from: 30mins focused study = 1pt, 1 act of courage in using the language = 3pts. As you can see I am starting small, but hopefully this will motivate me to either put in some focussed study or be bolder.