Last week I roughly mentioned about the not-so-healthy areas of our life. Now we need a plan to tackle those!
When I don’t know where to start, I usually grab a piece of paper – and some colorful pens – and begin putting the things on my mind into paper. I am so in love with stationary that I know this approach will at least make me sit down to start dealing with whatever I have going on. 🙂
So, I grabbed a journal and sat down. Since this is a long term project, I assigned a dedicated journal to it instead of using my everyday bullet journal. I first made a mind map of everything that came to my mind about healthy living. I didn’t care about the structure at all. Then I connected the ones that are related to each other. This gives me some basic areas of focus which I can later iterate on.
Although my mind map looks chaotic ;), it helped me pick a few key areas to start with.
1 – The most important one: Get some data and start tracking!
Because we need metrics to see the improvement. Occupational hazard I guess 😀 Anyway, we know for a while that my husband has a tendency for high blood pressure. Last we measured (like 2 years ago?) it was at the border of normal and high ranges. We should start tracking it seriously since hypertension is also known as silent killer.
2 – Research!
There are a few great books in my shelf about health and longevity. Also a ton of articles online that I marked for reading. I will start reading more and share what I learn.
3 – Healthy eating
We should start limiting meat and sugar. We should find ways to consume more vegetables, both in terms of quantity and variety. This will be a long game. But we can start with little improvements whenever and wherever we can. I am sure I will have tons of posts in this area.
4 – Be more active
Although this is probably our weakest side, we can only focus on so many things at once. Especially with 2 young kids! So being active will currently be a best-effort activity. We can try to walk to the park more often and go for an easy hike every now and then. My husband also wants to go to the gym regularly. Actually data collection is also important in this area, at least we should start tracking our daily steps.
Now that we have a very very rough plan, we should break it down and define actionable steps. Ready, set, go! 🙂
This is the notebook I use for our longevity project. It is a B5 size dot-grid journal. The pages high quality, thin and smooth. The best part is, fountain pens and Tombow Dual Brush Pens
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