No More Hiding

Another example of a picture I cropped when I posted it on social media to hide my body.

Timehop can be unforgiving at times because it shows you the picture you took and also what you posted. Seeing them in succession is always a reality check.

I wonder what digital pictures I deleted because I didn’t like how I looked to worse hard copy pics I tossed that I’ll ever get back.

The last pic is my most recent picture with my friend A (and my sister and another A friend who is nearly done with my new logo – but more on that soon).

Sleep Transformation

Not the most exciting #transformationtuesday but it’s still important.

The first picture is my sleep from this week, the 2nd is my sleep before I started keeping my phone across the room, and 3rd is my sleep a year ago.

My deep sleep is getting so much better. I’m also no longer having stretches of being up in the middle of the night due to “checking my phone” and getting sucked in.

I’m only sleeping a little longer on average, but the QUALITY of my sleep is so much better.

Perhaps you can set a 2019 intention to move your phone to across the room at night.

Measuring Mondays: 2018 – Balance

I had a lot of years of uncertainty in what was next in my life. From seriously job searching in southern California for all of 2015 into 2016, to starting my current job and getting the house and moving in w/ T in summer 2016 to all the work and renovation drama of 2017 oh and getting engaged – no pressure. Finally 2018 had been a calm year in many ways and I feel like I can really set my sights on the future that’s within my reach.

I have long been one for New Years resolutions, but for 2018 I set an intention…

Jeff Bezos has famously said about work-life balance that it is “a debilitating phrase because it implies there’s a strict trade-off.“ He goes on to say, “I think work-life harmony is a good framework. I prefer the word ‘harmony’ to the word ‘balance’ because balance tends to imply a strict tradeoff.” Bezos said that the relationship between his work life and personal life is reciprocal, and that he doesn’t compartmentalize them into two competing time constraints. “It actually is a circle. It’s not a balance.”

I don’t complete disagree with Mr. Amazon, but for 2018 balance for me meant more than work-life balance. My life needed balance. I needed to work out, sleep enough, eat right, spend quality time with loved ones, budget better, break my phone addiction, relax, and not spend any unnecessary hours at work.

2018 isn’t quite over yet – I’ll be sure to recap all the things I was able to log and measure for the past year – but I am pretty proud of sticking to my intention. I feel such a sense of relief, optimism, and alignment. I  found my equilibrium. I think having my Mondays to myself for the past few months and really making MeasuringLife my main squeeze as opposed to treating her like a dirty mistress had made all the difference.

Dec 2017 —> Dec 2018

The picture on the left is a perfect example of pictures I’ve cropped to hide the part of the body I didn’t like – it was only posted on social above the waist. 
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Last year I fell off the @ww wagon after 6ish months, but had been maintaining until November came around. It started with a Fall party we threw and I let eating and drinking get the best of me through the end of the year.
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Right after Christmas – even before January 1 – I recommitted to the new #wwfreestyle program and to working out. There is so much more than 20 pounds between these two pictures.