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Hi Readers! I am honestly guilty of loving to review the year more than living it. Every year we all feel the same way. How are we already celebrating a new year? How have these 12 months gone by so fast? What did I even do? What didn\u2019t I do which I planned on doing? And soon the reflection becomes a depression. But it doesn\u2019t have to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Year after year, that has been my one motto: Progress is not an upward graph.<\/mark><\/strong> It happens with ups and downs. Some times the downs can be an entire year, and if you\u2019re lucky they can be only a few days. But, that doesn\u2019t mean you have accomplished nothing. Progress also doesn\u2019t look the same on everyone, and so it\u2019s not comparable.<\/mark><\/strong> But, what I also believe is that progress also cannot be a horizontal line, because then you\u2019re stuck in a state of stagnation<\/mark><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, when one version of me says that it\u2019s okay to miss one day of workout and that progress is not always only upwards, another version of me points out that I have missed five days of workout, so please stop with the pretend self-care and start with actual self-care by moving your body! Same applies to every aspect of our personal, professional, social, financial and recreational lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Okay, that was a lot of philosophy right at the start! But, we are only getting started, readers. Here are my 6 life lessons from the exploratory year that was 2024!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

~~CONSISTENCY CAN BE FUN IF COMBINED WITH VARIETY~~<\/mark><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Doing the same thing every day can become boring very quickly. Preparing meals, going to work, hobbies and even exercising. But, I have noticed that when I added some variety to my every day routine, it became a lot more exciting and I found myself doing it consistently. Of course I had to prepare meals, but I used different ingredients and tried new recipes and even tried recreating a dish I ate months ago in the US. Work can get boring and routine too. Thankfully, that\u2019s not the case with mine, because there are multiple projects that run in parallel which boost my creativity as well as critical thinking skills. Hobbies are something we find comfort in, so them becoming boring is unlikely. But, I experienced that this year. I have already yapped about not reading enough in the first post<\/a> of the Year in Review series<\/a>. But, to continue with the yapping, I read a lot of cozy bookish Japanese books. They were wholesome, but after a point I was in desperate need of a complex plot and unreliably flawed characters.

Lastly, exercising! This is the one area I have struggled with forever. I have been working out on and off for over 10 years, but the gaps between the \u2018on\u2019 and \u2018off\u2019 usually stretched anywhere between 12 days to 12 weeks. Out of nowhere, I started walking in September this year. I posted it on Instagram in my Close Friends list. And, then all of a sudden it became a habit. I have now been working out every day for 113 DAYS!<\/mark><\/strong> I think one part of it was accountability<\/mark><\/strong>. I posted every day, so I was accountable to those 20-some people, who otherwise would know that I failed if I didn\u2019t workout. And, another factor was variety! I walked on new routes, I did yoga, strength training, wall Pilates, exercises with resistance bands<\/mark><\/strong>. Because of this it stayed interesting with a new challenge every day and it made being consistent an aftereffect. This was definitely one of the major life lessons for me this year, and also something I plan to bring into the new year.<\/p>\n\n\n

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