I tried eating, exercising, sleeping, and spending 'perfectly' for a week - and realized I've been approaching my goals all wrong
Courtesy of Anna Arsenault
I wanted to be the most productive, functional person I can be, all while maintaining my social life and sanity. The author is pictured.
If you've ever had a long list of things you want to accomplish, you might be familiar with the feeling that you don't have enough time or energy to do them all.
I'm very familiar with that feeling - I have more on the list than I can often keep track of: I want to eat healthier, exercise more, cook more often, get less takeout, take fewer cabs, not eat the ice cream in the freezer (or at least not replace the ice cream in the freezer once I've eaten it), check off my whole to-do list, and be the most productive, functional person I can be, all while maintaining my social life and sanity.
And as you might imagine, I'm never quite able to focus on - much less achieve - every goal on that list.
So I decided to test myself. For one week, I would commit to focusing on, and achieving, all of my goals.
The first step in this plan was to explicitly define "perfect."
After going through my general wants and digging into the specifics, my weekly goal list looked like this: