This week of challenge has finally turned into 10 days of challenge, since I received an unexpected visit from a friend I had not seen (or rather felt) for years: a backache and belly pain so damn that I 'ibuprofenized' . Many of the girls who read me will understand me. The boys no, lucky bastards.
The truth is that, pains apart, I expected that the challenge would be easier for me: after all, the points to be fulfilled were nothing of the other world ...
THE MAIN PROBLEM
Nooo, I am not going to make an excuse, I thought badly! The main problem I encountered was the number of points and objectives to be met: they were not difficult but they were many. In the next challenge I will focus on 5 points as much, better little and good than much and bad * to see if I learn it at once *.
I will write a short summary of each point and its result.
1) MEDITATION
It was good, during these 10 days I will not get upset once and the times I was about to explode I closed my eyes, took a deep breath and magically relaxed. The weirdest thing of all is that the day I managed to meditate better ... it was the first! I realized that the posture is a bit the same (man, I'm not going to meditate head down), and that the place where I am is much more important (the best is outdoors, in a place without noise or with cyclic sounds, such as Waves for example, yes yes yes, the beach turned out to be the best place). Meditation is one of the points that I will continue practicing, without a doubt.
What I learned: yes, meditation is useful, yes. I was always skeptical but I can not deny that since I meditate (even a few minutes a day) I am more relaxed and I do not feel like arguing (well, I do feel like it sometimes but I endure). If, as I am a rookie meditator, don't miss this video that I discovered thanks to Aniko.
2) DRINK ONLY WATER AND TE
I got it! It is something that is so cool for you that I was embarrassed to include it in the list but I already told you how much I love coca cola. Of course, to celebrate the end of the challenge ... I had a coke (sometimes you have to celebrate the achievements we achieved, right? Ok, it doesn't slip ... well, but a coke a week does not do so much damage, I enjoyed it like never before) and I couldn't even finish the can * and that was a can + straw, the best combination in the world to take it *). Anyway, for me this has been a total challenge!
What I learned: that coke is bad ... it's nothing new. But I learned that I can survive the bubbling liquid temptation, that tea and juices taste great and that water is our body's best friend (the problem is that my soul still loves coke but we are working on it ...)
3) EAT + VEGETABLES
Donate Now I think of an eggplant and I want to make the harakiri, but fine. Zucchini, squash, peas (that's worth as a vegetable, okay?), Spinach and that's it I think -_- This point I want to continue to have a lot of importance in my daily life ... I've even decided to have at least 2 days a week in which only I can eat vegetarian (vegan not because I can't, I want to give up eggs and cheeses).
Eggplant and cottage cheese meatballs with curry sauce and polenta 🙂
What I learned: that I don't like eggplants as much as I thought and that the only way to eat them is in the form of meatballs, that I love pumpkin and that I make a risotto di zucca to masterchef test! I also learned that I don't miss meat too much: I still love it huh? but now I know that I am more pasteur than carnivorous. My Italian DNA does not lie.
4) DO EXERCISE EVERY DAY
This point I could not fulfill and it is that I swear that with the back giving me the pain I could not. The first 4 days of the challenge I fulfilled my exercise chart but I had to give up. I cannot reach into the fire and say that I would have fulfilled the proposal but in a wave of optimism I would say yes.
What I learned: that to exercise I have to have a written routine, such as children. I need a cutlet (of leaf, not of meat) with writing: make x of this, x of this other and x of that. Without chop I am lost and I will end up in Dante's hell (look for me on the fifth floor, circle of the lazy, honorary member 12,344,125).
5) WRITE A POST A DAY
I wrote every day, both post (which I have not published does not mean that I have not written eh majos!) And offline. I am also not happy: there have been days of creativity without stopping, which goes ... one of the main reasons to start this challenge was to try to unlock and release something more than typical post or written but it will be that in this period I am a bit thick (a Sometimes it happens to me), that I have so many things in my head that I don't know where to start ordering them (it always happens to me) or simply that the next trip (we leave in 5 days you know?) has occupied me until the last neuron ... or worse Even though I'm not worth writing and that's it, I still don't throw in the towel.
What I learned: that it is hard for me to open up to myself, when it comes to talking about serious issues, I run away and run away from myself is a weak favor. I have to work hard on this.
6) KEEP CALM!
I already did a little spoiler up: I managed to keep calm, not get mad at bullshit or get bitter. And so you live better, no doubt. Let's see if I internalize at once the phrase 'I'd rather be happy than be right', if I'm more stubborn sometimes ...
What I learned: the biggest lesson was given to me by the video above ... 'I'd rather be happy than be right.'
Instead of creating creative dynamics I took advantage of the 10 'marathon to write a summary of my challenge day. Here I leave some piece (I prefer to stay most things for myself, that this is not a big brother, copón)
“Day II of the challenge has already put me in difficulty and it is that going to do the shopping turned out to be like those sailors who have to escape from the songs of the sirens. Only in my case the 'mermaid' were cans and bottles of coke that looked at me with a sensual face (seduced by cans of coke what I needed to experience, mmm with those curves, with this red dress passion, so sweet and bubbly. But I resisted. I smelled!) "
"I'm listening to a song from Levante that says 'shitty life' right now, but it's very nice huh? It's funny, it's called 'Alfonso.' This guy turns out to be his birthday and she is at this party where she doesn't know almost anyone, she gets bored like an oyster and wants to die. Good thoughts follow huh ?. That others are bitter no longer bitter me. ”
“Sometimes I think that my life is like a great adventure: I left home, I left Italy, I went to Barcelona, I went to Asia, I returned to Barcelona with the intention of leaving again, I went to India, then to New Zealand, Malaysia, Japan, I returned - we returned - knowing that we would go again, we went to the Balkans, a rare trip. Rare. And now we will go again, to return and to leave again. I love this feeling of 'whatever it has to be', I'm not worried about stability, nor the future, but on the other hand I can't help but envy those who don't need to 'search the world' for their happiness, those who they have it inside the house, looking into the eyes of some children that I may never have (or yes?). I am happy, but mine - ours - is a happiness that at first sight seems superficial, in reality it is ironic and a bit of a bastard and it is that to be happy we have to be unhappy: to travel we have to leave our families, which it hurts and if we don't do it we don't travel, we're not complete. A mess. Luck that home is always a flight away. ”
What I learned: that the writing marathon is an interesting instrument but perhaps I was wrong to use it as a 'diary on board the challenge' and not let the imagination flow. I will take the marathons again after the trip.
I did it, but most days I did not do it in the traditional way, I did it with photoshop: I discovered that it relaxes me a lot. I like. The results are regular but hey, the important thing is that I enjoyed on the road ...
What I learned: that I love painting with photoshop, it is painting for lazy people but it relaxes and between work and work it comes to me with pearls. The results are not to launch rockets but neither the issue was to be the Picasso of the new millennium.
I did not do it every day: it was the easiest point that seemed to me and that however on the second day of challenge it seemed silly to have to meet ... it was not a challenge, it was something cool that it is good to do from time to time: in The moment it became obligatory, I felt like it. A small self-revolution.
What I learned: what is very easy in the end is not so easy. Surely if I had found myself well I would have fulfilled this point but I would not have enjoyed it to the fullest ... when something that I like disguises as an obligation I do not see it as a challenge and I lose interest. It's funny how today, I have finished the challenge, I want to go to the beach / pool to read.
10) FINISH THECHALLENGE
Did i finish it? Maybe you think not, but I think so. Ok, I may not have complied with each self-treatment (so I did not finish it, you will say) but it was a day of many thoughts, of interior work, of recognizing problems and proposing solutions. On Thursday we go on a trip and until Christmas we will not return to Spain, which will make me more complicated to continue with the second part of the challenge ... more complicated but not impossible!
What I learned: that challenges are a way to get us out of our comfort zone without physically getting out of it, that I have to work harder on myself, take away my fears of undressing before my eyes, and that challenging me suited me ... I'm going to continue doing it
