The core values that drive my life and work are courage, connection, accountability and growth. Below are the questions I try to address in my integrity report. The goal is to reflect on whether I've lived up to my values and in what ways I can do better.
This year, I've committed to an athletic lifestyle. Earlier this year, I trained daily in Muay Thai Camp and fought at Thapae boxing stadium. This involved confronting traumas around injuries and taking back a piece of my identity as a martial artist. I am proud that I went through with physiotherapy and fixed my hips to commit to fighting in the ring. Even though my body was still somewhat fragile, I pushed through with training and won.
Since returning to Canada, I've been persisting with my athletic lifestyle. Even though my targets are performance-based, I've gone down 10lb so far and feel far more capable of managing stress.
It is liberating to finally have energy to improve on my mental processes and support systems for delivering consistent results without burning out. One thing I have been avoiding this year is making strides in my career, and this is something I've been afraid to do because of my history with burning out. I can see that with more mental and physical capacity, I can take on more risks and courageously make decisions on long-term goals. For the rest of this month, am working on breaking down these goals with a productivity coach. For the rest of this year, I will be putting these lessons into action. You can follow along here:
My ongoing Twitter thread about energy management
This year, I committed to share more experiences via writing. For 50 days of 2019, I published 400+ words a day on a community called write-together. This process forced me to overcome a fear of sharing my writing - I tend to fall into a perfectionism and over-edit and never publish. As the weeks went on, it became progressively easier to write clearly and hit publish.
I've been publishing drafts on Writetogether, a writing community built by Owen Williams