New priorities for a new month

Now that February is here, it’s time to check how things went last month and see what my goals for February are. February looks to be a weird month since I have an extra two weeks of holiday because of the coronavirus. I’m not worried about catching the coronavirus as that is not something I can control, so I’ve decided to focus my efforts on what I can control.

Education: My new Masters has started and so far I have been keeping up with it. Since I’ve been on holiday, I’ve only been doing the official work but starting next week, I will begin to put in some extra reading time. I’ve fallen into the habit of working on the new Unit when it comes out by studying two to three hours Thursday and Friday morning and finishing up anything left over on Saturday. The rest of the days I check the forums and write comments as needed. I’ll be looking to put in two to three hours reading time every day I’m not actively studying now that my reference books have arrived. Once we’ve finished the first unit for each class (there are three types) I plan to do my phase one of the writing assignments which consists of breaking down exactly what I need to do for each assignment which will help me plan what future reading and classroom investigations I need to plan for in the coming months.

Language: I kept up with reviewing my HSK 3 vocabulary for the first two weeks but our holiday travel killed it off. I will be getting back into vocabulary review, starting next week and transition into practicing online tests eventually.

Writing: We went to Beijing for one week’s holiday and I wasn’t able to get in any writing time so I didn’t quite finish my writing goal of eight chapters. That being said, I am hitting my writing goal of two thousand words every day now and am currently working on chapter seven so progress was made and I hope to send off the first eight chapters to my alpha readers in the not too distant future.

Health: I was sick with a flu (not the coronavirus) for a total of two weeks in January and between traveling and holiday meals and drinking, my weight did not go down and may have increased slightly, hovering around 98. There was lots of Baileys involved too and some beer L. Thanks to the coronavirus, I am cooking home-cooked meals every day instead of ordering online, so eating healthier, and plan to start up daily exercises tomorrow.

To summarize, I hit the important goals in January and made progress in most of the rest of my goals. Dragon Age: Inquisition has been my guilty pleasure during the holiday but I’m almost done that and will be putting more time into my Masters. The enforced holiday has given me lots of free time and I have created my daily routines. See the upcoming article.

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