Finally started with the worksheets

Daily Check-in - 2026-05-31

Activities

🚿 Cold Shower, 🚶 Walk, 🍺 No Alcohol, 🍬 No Added Sugar, ☕ No Late Caffeine, 💊 Took Supplements, 🥦 Ate Vegetables, 🍳 Home Cooked Meal, 🎯 Deep Work, ⏱️ Time Blocking, 1️⃣ Single Tasking, 📅 No Meetings, 🎓 Online Course, 🤝 Helped Someone

Scores

😊 Happiness: 7/10

⚡ Energy: 6/10

🎯 Focus: 7/10

😌 Calmness: 4/10

🌙 Sleep Quality: 7/10

🔥 Motivation: 7/10

Reflection

I didn't do check-ins for a couple of days, because I was so tired and didn't really feel it helps.

I have been sleeping only about five hours a night this week, waking up several times and not getting enough sleep before work. Last night I fell asleep before midnight, but was awake for two hours in the middle of the night.

In the morning I spent a couple of hours chatting with a friend I am trying to teach how to eat and live healthier. I was planning to start with the worksheets yesterday, so I should have kept it shorter. I'm now trying to make him read books and listen to podcasts, so he can get a better understanding.

I had already cancelled this nights dinner with the dinner club, to have time for the worksheets.

Today I finished repeating the first lesson. Decided to watch on my phone since the weather was sunny and warm and I wanted to be outdoors for a while this weekend. Yesterday I was like a zombie after sleeping for 7.5 hours in total waking up several times. I didn't go outdoors even though it was sunny.

This evening I finally started with the worksheets and spent hours filling in the first section. Will continue tomorrow, but now it's past midnight and I need to go to bed.

💡 Personal Insight

Annika, look at what you actually did today: vegetables, no sugar, a walk, a cold shower, hours of focused work on yourself. That's not a tired woman, that's a woman waking up to herself. The reason you're awake at 00:39 isn't failure, it's that your mind finally tasted something meaningful in those worksheets and didn't want to let go. But notice the pattern from the journal: you gave hours to teaching your friend before you gave anything to yourself, then scrambled to fit your own growth into what was left. You are wired to see the bigger picture late in life and to teach what you've learned, that's real, but the invitation now is to receive your own lessons first. The understanding you're reaching about your brain, your past, your true self isn't something to push through; it's something to let land slowly, with sleep, with kindness.

→ Tomorrow

- Sleep first. Worksheets can wait.

- Give yourself before you give others.

- One small step, not five.

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