{"id":749,"date":"2018-02-11T22:25:06","date_gmt":"2018-02-11T16:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lensq.com\/?p=749"},"modified":"2018-02-11T22:25:06","modified_gmt":"2018-02-11T16:55:06","slug":"2018-week-7-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lensq.com\/index.php\/2018\/02\/11\/2018-week-7-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"2018 Week 7 Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"

Week 6 was a disaster. My stress levels went to an entire new level. I could hardly cope with my weekly challenges. I could not fall asleep on most of the days. This week I am going to focus mainly on understanding my stress patterns and deal with reducing it.<\/span>
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Review of Week 6<\/span><\/h2>\n

 
\n1.Book of the week: <\/b>
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\nI hardly read any books this week. I was preoccupied with other personal problems which ate me up totally. Reading a book could have helped me deal with the stress but I realised that I was under stress when I looked back today. <\/span>
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\n2.Course of the week: Personal Branding<\/b>
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\nI prefer doing courses while commuting. The volume of the audio of the course is too low due to which I could not complete the entire syllabus I planned for this week.<\/span>
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\n3.Habit of the Week: Sleep tracker<\/b>
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\nI logged into my sleep tracker on 4 days this week. I wake up then and write down the thoughts which repeat in loop the entire night. After that, I plug a course from coursera where the voice of the author has a calming effect. There might be other audios too which can soothe the mind, but I am yet to find them. The reason why I choose courses is it makes me feel that I am not wasting my time by trying to fall asleep.<\/span>
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\n4.Exercise Routine:<\/b>
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\nI exercised on 3 days of this week. Exercise helped a little to cope with the stress.<\/span>
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\n5.Giving <\/b>
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\nOn the first day, I offered my food to a hungry person. On the second day, I helped a friend in composing a mail. The third day, I lended my phone charger. I gifted a chocolate on the fourth day. I gave unsolicited advice on the next day. On the sixth day, I helped my friend experiment her photography skills on me. Today, I did an astrological reading to my friend.<\/span>
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\nThough these are really small ones, I think it is good to at least start off with something than doing nothing.<\/span>
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\n6.Editing<\/b>
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\nI did editing work just on two days of the week. Rest of the week, I forgot that I was a writer who needed to edit her work.<\/span>
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\n7.Language Learning<\/b>
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\nI haven\u2019t touched this challenge at all this week.<\/span>
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\n8.Organise<\/b>
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\nEven though I am planning my clothes for the week, I am yet to organise my wardrobe.<\/span>
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\n9.Quilling paper earrings<\/b>
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\nI did this on just 2 days.<\/span>
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\nOverall, since the beginning of this year, this was the first week where I struggled to stay with my routine. I hope to deal with my stress this week and get back to normal life quickly. If not for the weekly challenges, I would have spent an entire month feeling stressful instead of recognizing it.<\/span>
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\nThe one good thing about this week was I went to a friend\u2019s place and spent quality time with her. I can call this as another milestone in socializing.<\/span>
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Challenges for Week 7<\/span><\/h2>\n

 
\n1.Book of the week: Why zebras don\u2019t get ulcers<\/a><\/b>
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\nWhen I searched for the books to help me deal with stress, I found that this one has a few scientific methods to deal with it. So let me try this to understand my problem and solve it.<\/span>
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\n2.Course of the week: Personal Branding<\/b>
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\nI will find some time in the evening after I am back home to finish this course.<\/span>
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\n3.Habit of the Week: Sick day tracker<\/b>
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\nI have suddenly become quite allergic due to which I am falling sick very frequently. I want to keep a track of this which might help me figure the triggers for my allergy.<\/span>
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\n4.Compliment<\/b>
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\nI will find something genuinely interesting about others and compliment them. This helps in not only making good friends but will help me in connecting with others. <\/span>
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\n5.Editing<\/b>
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\nI will just spend 10 minutes on this and edit one article a day.<\/span>
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\n6.Language Learning<\/b>
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\nI will select a song for this week and learn a few words from it. I will speak at least one sentence with my Tamil friends to develop the fluency of speaking in tamil.<\/span>
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\n7. Zentangles<\/b>
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\nI have been doodling all the day today. It helped me deal with stress. This week I will go back to zentangles to destress myself.<\/span>
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\n8.Comedy TV series:<\/b>
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\nI need some fun in life to deal with stress. I have to laugh at least for some time a day. Even though I find it a waste of time, I need some entertainment in life to escape from reality for a while. This will act like a painkiller while I treat the root cause.<\/span>
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\nThat is all for the next week.<\/span>
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\nHow was your week 6? What are your plans for week 7? Let us know in the comments section.<\/span>
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\nHappy Week 7!<\/span>
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