Last but not least, we come to the Body quadrant, including Health, Fitness, Cooking, and Activities.

Health

Most of my “health” stuff is actually going to be captured under Fitness for the year. I have a new medication they want me to try which would be injected once a week, so I have to be shown how to do that this month. I have a UV lamp to set up as well as a sleep machine that I got recently, some other basic stuff just as I age, a line on a new doctor, and some mental health stuff.

At the end of the year, I want to look back and feel like I kept good care of myself. Not very specific I know, but self-care tends to be more situational for me. Like with Family and Home, it’s hard to be too specific in advance on goals and targets per se.

Fitness

As I mentioned above, my main focus for health for 2022 will be fitness. I have my BowFlex set up, and two routines (stretching and working out) established. I’m trying to walk a little bit every day so far, we’ll try to increase distances in February. I have a dashboard working, and I’m ready to go again after a slow fall. I still have some equipment to set up.

A year from now, I want to have monitored by fitness throughout, and although the primary goal is simply to be more fit in the short-term with more mobility and endurance, my goal is to get below 300 lbs for weight. I’m even hoping to get Tai chi stuff going this year.

Cooking

Some years, I would put cooking simply in the Soul quadrant, as an expression of creativity. This year, for no real rationale, I’m considering it more in the Body category, pushing me to DO it like a regular activity. I’ve already mentioned above a weekly cooking event (meal, something), and it is probably as much about generally being more comfortable in the kitchen with Jacob as a test subject and student, and doing some work on both full meal recipes and baking.

A year from now, I want to have tried every type of bread in the machine’s manual, as well as a couple of self-baked attempts, and established a list of 25 key recipes with Jacob. In the short-term, I need to make a cookie recipe and I want to try an Instapot recipe for some Chicken Biryani in the Instapot.

Activities

Some of these items are ones that I had hoped to do with Jacob, promoting things that he might enjoy. I had them listed under family, but most of them are kind of just for “me” to do as projects, while Andrea and Jacob do puzzles.