What I Explored This Week 12/19/2024 - 12/26/2024: Health, planning, and Ado

Originally published on Substack

Backstory to this new series

I want to share more about my works in progress, what’s not finished yet, things I’m in the middle of. And most of those things start with what I’m learning, exploring, and currently curious about.

So this is my first “What I explored this week” post. Ideally this will be shared weekly but I’m still experimenting so we’ll see if that’s sustainable for me.

On to the post!

What I explored this week

I have a life long interest in health and how the mind affects the body. So I was glad to find this video because it connects more dots between trauma and why the body gets autoimmune disease. I like to get a multi-faceted view of a topic so this is like The Body Keeps the Score plus extra.

Random video find on YouTube of someone else using the idea of levels to describe how complex you can make something!! Love this. I’m not going to use Notion as a habit tracker, though, just sticking with a basic habit tracker.

Realized I need to record my personal tasks on paper and that includes my habit tracker. This video inspired me to use habit tracker on paper with a score.

Link to song on Spotify:

I discovered the singer Ado this week!

I was listening to a Japanese pop music playlist one morning to practice listening to Japanese and one song stuck out to me immediately. I looked up the artist and it was Ado.

And now I’m an Ado fan.

I’m excited because when I was first leaning Spanish, I translated and sang Spanish songs I liked. It was a fun way to learn Spanish. So glad I’ve found Japanese music I like enough to do the same thing!

Thanks for reading about my learning explorations for the week. Take care!