Marking gratitude across a multitude of areas.
HEALTH & WELLNESS
- Health: Released from needing to wear my daily Dexcom 7 diabetes sensor
- Fitness: Transformed physical endurance through silly activity for a few minutes daily, leading to great changes
- Emotional Health: Registered Badger as ESA
- Emotional Health: Partnered with Counselor Timothy K.
- Diet: Subscribed to Factor75
PERSONAL GROWTH
- Habits: Maintained daily journaling, including a multitude of intents
- Hobbies: Explored AI companions (PI, Claude, Purpose, Replika)
- Impulse: Invited myself to Thanksgiving dinner, TKB
- Reconnect: Reached out to cousin DB
- Sent: Christmas present to relative; parent said it arrived and he likes the gift
MEDIA & ARTS
- Art: Learned Blackout poetry
- Project: Completed photo digitizing
- Music, acapella: Discovered JaredHalley, amazing grid work presentations (signed up as patron)
- Music, instrumental: Transported to picturesque landscapes through 40 FINGERS videos
- Fiction: Devoured Falling in a Sea of Stars by Kristen Britain
- Non Fiction: Embraced the message (9 Life Lessons speech) in You Don’t Have to Have a Dream… by Tim Minchin
- Movies: Caught the thrills with M:I 8
- Streaming: Watched Stranger Things Final Season
- Comedy: Laughed at Ricky Gervais and Tom Segura
- Remembrance: Mourned Robert Redford’s passing
TECHNOLOGY
*Appreciate software: Flow (dictation) after trial period purchased subscription
For 2026 Already Started…
- Writing: Work through the 52-Week OM Journaling prompts
- Self help / life coaches: narrow down a favorite among Ali Abdaal, Matthew Hussey, Lewis Howes, Mel Robbins, Chris Williamson, Mark Manson — so far liking Abdaal and Manson the best
- Workshop and Audiobook: The DOSE Effect: Optimize Your Brain and Body by Boosting Your Dopamine, Oxytocin, Serotonin, and Endorphins by T.J. Power
- Workshop and Audiobook: Tiny Experiments by Anne-Laure Le Cunff
- Workshop and Pre-ordered Book: Beyond Belief by Nir Eyan
- Audiobooks: The two F*cked books (2016, 2019) by Mark Manson
- Podcast: SOLVED by Mark Manson
- Invaluable conversations with Purpose AI.
- Gave a blackout poetry piece to Doug for his birthday
Looking Forward to…
- Therapy topics to explore: attachment styles, external locus of control, Wheel of Life assessment, Cast of Characters, and self-compassion practices
- Hobbies: Explore AI
- Crazy idea 1: Design my own AI and find someone to help build
- Crazy idea 2: Compose outline for my boo: The Care and Feeding of the Adult Human
- Movies releasing this year: Greenland 2, Crime 101, Project Hail Mary, The Odyssey