#7, Riding the Rollercoaster of Life & Self-Investment Update
Every day has gifted me an entirely different set of emotions to experience
Refresher of why I’m doing this:
This year, I’m on a mission of loving myself extraordinarily well.
This requires me to upgrade my systems for my physical, mental, career, and environmental/social health.
Every week(ish) I share an update on how the systems are working.
This week’s Notable Moments:
I am really proud of myself, and so grateful for the support I have around me. Working through major life changes, and had a roller coaster of a week where every day gifted me an entirely different set of emotions to experience. I can palpably feel the upgrades I’ve made to my emotional regulation. The hard work is paying off.
4AM solo(ish) roadtrip from SF to LA with my pup Lilah that ended up being one of my most zen, healing, and fun drives <3
Flew home last minute to spend time with my family. Now that our Miami home is no longer, I stayed with my parents at their place for the first time in years. I cherished every minute and feel so lucky to still have parents who love me for all that I am, and a truly special relationship with my brother. <3
Completed 22-day cross country roadtrip — I want to put together a full retrospective for myself, will share here soon!
Girls night in SF where we ate from Rebecca’s beautifully nurtured garden <3
Shireen’s System for a Healthy Body
Week 7/8, Aug 13 - Aug 25:
✅ Good habits continue <3 Finished roadtrip on 8/15, took a break on 8/16 (AKA slept all day) and then re-built a system to continue holding me accountable for good daily habits
New Night and Morning Rituals
PM: put phone outside the bedroom, go to sleep reading or meditating
AM: gratitudes / stretching / home workout / reading prior to grabbing phone
✅ Can’t quite express the value of having little 50/50/50 daily exercise goals
✅ Intermittent fasting continues to be gold
❗️Gained a few pounds during last few days of roadtrip due to poor eating and poor sleep; have more travels coming up and need to revisit nutrition + workout system for September to ensure healthy weight
Goals:
Cellular repair and metabolism health:
Fast 16+ hours Day 1-14 of menstrual cycle; 13+ hours Day 15-35
Strength and flexibility:
10K steps + hit micro-exercise goals every day
Cognition and healing:
8hrs/night sleep
Nutrition:
Hit at least 30% protein on macros every day
AM and PM supplements every day
Target weight: 150lb by end of September / 145lb by EOY
Shireen’s System for a Healthy Mind
Goals:
Observe my thoughts / thinking patterns. Evaluate if I want to keep or change. Track them in yay/nay list.
Actions > Thoughts. When there is a thought to do something and it is determined to be a healthy thing to do, take action immediately.
Week 7/8, Aug 13 - Aug 25:
✅ YAY Patterns:
Peoples’ opinions of you require no reaction. Let them be with their opinions. Educate them on your perspective if you want to.
Media is insanely influential. If you’re watching a drama, you’ll likely have dramatic thoughts. Observe them, release them, please don’t act on them. 😅
Shireen’s System for Healthy Value Creation
Week 7/8, Aug 13 - Aug 25:
What did I do to create value and be of service today?
What new roads did I create for that value to be received / exchanged?
We have a spark.
Shireen’s System for a Healthy Environment
Retro - what parts of me were amplified last week, what did my environment look like?
What parts of me do I want amplified?
What changes am I making to my environment to amplify these parts?
Week 7/8, Aug 13 - Aug 25:
Last week’s Retro:
wanted to build out a system to begin 8/19 that selects for deep work, got this set up and feeling great <3
action, action, action towards delivering professional value → less words, less emotion, less planning, more experimentation, more fun
lots of travels this week/month — upgrade system to empower healthy habits + deep work + fun
I’m unlearning and reprogramming a lot of my behaviors, and one question I find myself asking often: Is this very important to my identity?
To build better relationships with my loved ones, I’m asking them the same question when I confront them about behaviors I’m asking them to improve. If the behavior / thinking pattern is one they deem very important to their identity, I embrace it and allow myself to decide how I wish to engage with it. But I’ve also noticed that this simple question, a very non-threatening one at that, gets the other person to reflect on how they truly feel about their behavior. And if they find that it’s not important, they end up being very open to upgrading it. <3
Keep on learning.
Love,
Shireen