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second & third week of creativity complete

Yesterday completes my third week of my 75 Day Creativity Challenge. For a quick little recap, I've started this little 75 Day Creativity Challenge in order to push myself to do more creative things and the hobbies I love on a daily basis, and so I'm taking a very generic template of the original 75 Hard Challenge. I've also posted about my first week experience on this blog, first week of creativity complete. Now I wanted to talk a little bit more about my experience finishing up weeks 2 and 3!

Physical Activity (30+ minutes)

Surprisingly, I've found this the easiest part of the week. This is a habit I've been building through going to the gym 3x a week and I've been putting more effort to get in some more movement on my rest days. This has mainly been just doing Anime Cardio, watching anime while doing some form of anime cardio. I've completed watching Chainsaw Man, started JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (couldn't quite get into it yet), and then switched to My Love Story with Yamada-kun at Lv999 (which I love!!). It's been fun being able to watch more anime while staying on top of getting my daily physical activity in.

Creativity Activity (30 minutes to an hour)

Weeks 1 and 2, I've started off strong with doing something creative every day for 30 minutes to an hour but week 3 has been where the struggle has set in. Thinking about it, it feels like I've missed more days but looking at the data, I've only missed out on 2 days in week 3 on completing my creative activity. Which honestly, isn't that bad. The purpose of this 75 day challenge isn't to punish myself for missing a single day and forcing myself to start back at day 1, it's to realize that things happen but we still should make the time for things that are important and bring us joy. Plus, the reason I missed out on doing something creative on those 2 days was because I was spending valuable time with friends after work and I do believe creating that balance is VERY important. You shouldn't shut yourself away from the world just to solely create and actually spending that time out in the world can be very healing and inspiring for future creative endeavors.

Reading/Journaling/Crocheting

Reading and journaling have been going pretty well for me, I don't believe I've missed a day yet. Crocheting each day has been taking a little bit of a nose dive and is a bit harder to keep up than I had originally thought. I think it's mainly because I'm working on a longer project that's a gift and the pattern is NOT fun and it's not turning out so great but I'm so close to finishing and don't want to give up but also I've been avoiding working on it for longer periods of time. The deadline for this project is coming up, so I will have to finish it soon and afterwards I plan on crocheting some more fun projects to get myself back into enjoying it again. Split stitching into the back loop only will be the death of me...

The start of week 4

This week is starting off a little bit differently. I just recently got a tattoo on my thigh, a big one, and it was pretty painful and I'll need to take some time off of the gym this week in order to let the tattoo and myself heal a bit. This might be the first week where my physical activity streak may be broken but I take that as a valuable lesson for prioritizing rest and recovery. I put my body under a lot of stress and it needs to recoup and not be under more stress immediately afterwards! I still enjoy going to the gym and doing physical activity, so I'm not worried about falling off the wagon and never picking it up again though I do realize that's a very real thing to worry about. If you find yourself worried about taking breaks from working out in order to rest, just try to remember what it feels like when you do consistently work out compared to how it feels when you go long periods without it. Take as long as you need but don't forget the joys of that movement.

Thanks for reading!