documenting my 2025 reflections and learning as the days go by… 💭
oh my december chalk wallllll YAYYYYY

just lunged into the new year, literally. finished my last rep exactly at 12am it was sooo hard but im proud im starting the year off strong nad not giving myself any excuses. typically i do give myself excuses on special days or weekends to overeat and drop all of my habits and i realized those were the main points that were keeping me stuck and causing me to spiral. now i still celebrate in my own way but make sure im starting the new year strong 🙂
just finished the quran alhamdulilah!!!!! a beautiful book. 💛
important to admit when wrong and properly apologize
why are you wasting your time on something you don’t care about
just like your body shows your real habits and you can say whatever you want about how much you take care of your body and how well you eat and blah blah blah but your body shows the results and your body can’t be faked (for the most part minus plastic surgery stuff LOL), quality in the same way can’t be faked. you can have the flashy linkedin posts and pictures, but everyone who was there or has experienced whatever you’re talking about knows the quality level. people feel it. there is no running from it or hiding from it
people who return stuff to the store after they used it and enjoyed it are operating under the most extreme levels of a scarcity mindset, low integrity, dishonesty, and will most likely remain poor.
can we bring back using our context clues and research skills?
idk why when i say i’m unreachable for a few months is when everyones wants to reach me… unreachable means unreachable…
dumb people think everyone else around them is just as dumb, and so they try to pull tricks and lies that only an utter fool would fall for thinking they’re the smartest people on earth. stop the lies, and start taking accountability for your actions. “ All of us have foolish sides, moments in which we lose our heads and think more of our ego or short-term goals. It is human nature. Seeing this foolishness within you, you can then accept it in others. This will allow you to smile at their antics, to tolerate their presence as you would a silly child, and to avoid the madness of trying to change them. ”
Excerpt From Mastery Robert Greene https://books.apple.com/us/book/mastery/id520234946 This material may be protected by copyright.
so interesting like imagine your entire language and culture being created around “the now”:
“He determined, for instance, that their culture placed a supreme value on “immediacy of experience”—what was not before their eyes did not exist, and therefore there were almost no words or concepts for things outside immediate experience. ”
Excerpt From Mastery Robert Greene https://books.apple.com/us/book/mastery/id520234946 This material may be protected by copyright.
my character flaw is quitting too easily (which ive been working on these last 3 months), crashing out too much and being impulsive following my gut. i think impulsivity is good but i should also be more pragmatic. something to work on for 2026. wow it doesn’t feel good to say aloud “im a quitter.” saying it aloud makes me understand how dire it is that i get this situation under control. im a quitter and then i make excuses for the quitting that are honest on the surface but aren’t honest in depth.
consistency is everything. small habits done consistently are what lead to changes. also being patient and trusting the process is so so important. i’m reminded often by the hadith “what is little but sufficient is better than that which is abundant but causes heedlessness”. ما قلَّ وكفى خيرٌ مما كثرَ وألهى.
use exercise to prove to yourself that you can do hard things even if its hard. you can push through. train to failure.