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Reducing

I've come to the realization that I need to chill the fuck out a bit on my goals. I don't know what made me think I could reasonably carry on a schedule of trying to work on all of them every day while having a full-time job except utter silliness.

Anyway, all this to say that I need to tweak my schedule again. My piano teacher advises that 5 minutes of scales and 10 minutes of song practise daily is enough at my current level. That's really doable. 

I'm thinking drawing will be once or twice a week. I'll start with one for now.

It's generally recommended to exercise at least three times per week to stay healthy.

On the writing front, I've found it hard to do a lot during the week. I'm just too tired in the evenings from being on a computer doing office work all day.

Decluttering can be done in small amounts daily.

And that should leave plenty of time for reading.

There. Sanity restored.

Now I just need to figure out which days for which activities and then I'll be set.


Please check out my digital to-do list: https://trello.com/b/RM8yD3eq/rae-roy-general

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