Just a quick post this morning to state that I'm more or less staying on track, it's making the time to report on everything that is my limiting factor for right now. This was however the first morning in a while that I listened to scripture while unloading the dishwasher as my mornings have been squeezed and our kitchen hasn't been set right yet after our plumbing adventure. I've often been up late into the night finishing some mudding, sanding or painting sections and needing to clean things up again enough that my family can use the space enough to function the following day. These late nights have left me with later mornings and less time, so I've been doing grease the groove style workouts throughout the day and still reading my scriptures at night and saying my prayers.

My mornings have been thrown off with the kitchen being torn up. I've switched to a grease the groove style for my micro workouts for the time being. Throughout the day I aim to do at least four and ideally closer to six sets of push-ups and pull-ups using 20 repetition sets and 5 repetition sets respectively. I also sprinkle 2-minute wall sits throughout the day. It's not terribly hard, but it should be enough to make some progress or at least stave off losses and keep up the newly created habit.

Well I've really been putting these tiny habits to the test this last week or so as I've just had a lot of demands on my time and energy. I've managed to stay with things at least 90% throughout.

As mentioned Wednesday, this has been a challenging week. The time change and needing to wait kids out for going to sleep to let the tooth fairy visit left me with a sleep deprivation headache that became so bad it culminated in a violent eruption emptying my stomach of dinner and leaving my throat bleeding. Five days later I'm still feeling discomfort breathing from the strain the eruption put on my body around my ribs and collar bones. I've had to modify my workouts, but have still done something every day except Tuesday when I slept in and didn't have time before work and thought I'd make it up but didn't later in the day. Sadly, I've not left myself time to keep you updated here this week. I probably could have and perhaps should have made some evening updates. My evenings are pretty taken up, and I've been working on a book as well. I wanted to make sure to get back in here today and share how my week went and reconnect with the habit of making a quick update here.

I've had a rough start to this week. The Daylight savings time change has hit me hard. I slept past my alarm Monday and Tuesday, leaving me insufficient time to do all the things I would have liked to get done. I was able to make up my exercise yesterday later in the day during my work breaks, but didn't end up sharing anything here on the site as planned in the evening as I ended up with a terrible headache and gastrointestinal issues making my evening a right off for getting anything of consequence done. This morning I was needing to take it easy as well to recover from my headache last night and ensure I had the sleep needed and didn't reactivate the headache with a pounding heart rate. So I haven't done my exercises so far today, and will likely just go for a gently walk later and not get to my squats.

I've stayed up on my workouts and prayers. Had a few misses with morning scripture listening, and been focused on some other areas the past few days which has kept me from sharing new updates and insights here.

Still moving the needle with small and simple changes. Greater consistency with targets across the board. This morning I did a set of ten pull-ups followed by eight pull-ups, no specific rest timing. I can improve upon my evening scripture routine as it has been sliding back to just reading a verse and going to sleep as I've allowed myself to spend too much time in other activities in the evening eating into my sleep time leaving me going through the motion of making sure I pick up scripture and read at least one verse. I justify it myself that I'm listening to scriptures and commentary all the time, but I know better that I often get more out of reading than listening - I think partly because when I'm reading there isn't the noise of listening - which may sound silly, but in the silence I am better able to listen to the spirit and be taught in spirit and heart more than intellectually in my mind. Both are valuable.

I've managed to keep going with daily scripture study and prayers in small doses throughout the day as well as daily exercise with very few misses. This morning I had my kneeling prayer at my bedside without a second thought or prompt, it is just becoming routine which is great. I just need to make sure that while the act is routine the conversation with the Lord is not. For my workout today I had a micro session of squats - three sets of twenty. I planned on doing 20-second rest intervals since it's been a little while since my squat workout was the three set format, still using 40 pounds. I got through fine, but my timer was messed up momentarily and the rest timing was all off, so I can't claim to have followed a specific rest time, I simply did 3 sets of twenty with random unknown amounts of recovery time between.

This last little while I have run into some set backs. I've had some things going on taking time and some decisions of my own making that have not helped. I've been overtired and overslept yesterday being the first day since early December that I entirely missed a workout (not even a token workout). I was in a rush in the morning and thought I'd get it later, but it just didn't happen as I became engaged in the goings on of the day. I suppose there is a lesson there about putting anything off likely meaning we won't get to it. I've had a miss here and there with kneeling prayers right upon awakening, but I catch myself before leaving the house and get it almost every time I realize (I expect I occasionally might just not even realize I missed it). Still on the whole improvements are happening. I haven't really been reporting on it, but I've been trying to improve my diet by crowding out poor choices with better ones with an aim to get a bunch of fruits and vegetables, whole grains, and pulses throughout the day. I've been doing quite well with this.

I finished listening to the entirety of the Book of Mormon yesterday which put me back at the beginning this morning. I contemplated moving to the doctrine and covenants to match the Sunday School plans for the year or to listen to the old or New Testament, and I may still do that at some point, but for now I felt I should work to keep the Book of Mormon a central piece as we've been warned by prophets that it's not taken seriously enough.

Overall doing well. Yesterday was a poor day for exercises. I finally had to accept that the illness raging through my family over the last few weeks had me down. I did a wall sit to place hold for my squats while letting myself conserve energy for healing. Today I had pull-ups to get through with 25 seconds of recovery between. I did 5,5,4 which was better than I expected. My nightly scripture study has been keeping up at least a verse, and would still be a chapter except that it seems when I pick up my scriptures the last few nights my wife takes that as her cue to start talking about the day which disrupts my pattern and takes the time I have for reading, especially while trying to avoid greater illness and needing to ensure I sleep so I'm not staying up later to make it up.

Still going strong with my small changes. Perhaps it's time to step more things up. Last night I realized my scriptures were not by my bed because I had them elsewhere for some study. I was tempted to skip "just one night" but knew that was not in alignment with who I am working to be and so I pulled my act together and went back downstairs to the armchair I'd had them in and brought them back. I ended up reading about Pahoran, Paanchi, and Pacumeni having a bit of contention over who should be in charge and Kishkumen and his secret oaths as well as Coriantumr marching on Zarahemla bypassing the borders of the land having easy access to slay those in the center of the land of the Nephites. I also did my push-ups this morning. I'm down to 15-second rest intervals and did 20,20,16,4.