june update

 

🌟 june 2025 – Monthly Goal Review

“Discipline isn't a switch you flip—it’s a muscle you train.”

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🎯 Personal Goals

• Don’t die or have near-death experiences
  ✅ Safe and steady. Nothing scary. Good.

• Enjoy one solo dinner per month
   most time was spent home, so No progress
  
  

• Meditate 10 min on 15 days/month
   No progress
  Adjusted goal: Max 2.5 hrs screen time/day to create mental space.

• Avoid writing to acquaintances <6 months; write 2 letters to self
  No progress
  

• Take at least 5 photos/week
   Took 5 to 6 photos in the month, some progress in there

• Limit cheat meals (samosa, biryani, gol gappas) to 1×/week
  🛑 I am bigger than my urges, I have to carry this body over next forty years, so eat accordingly, no mindless urges would be entertained any longer.

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🏋️‍♂️ Logging Goals

🏋️‍♂️ Gym 4×/week

Week	Days Tracked
Week 1	❌ ❌ ❌ ❌ ❌ ❌ ❌
Week 2	❌ ❌ ❌ ❌ ❌  ❌ ❌
Week 3	❌ ❌ ✅ ❌ ✅ ❌ ❌
Week 4	❌ ❌ ❌ ❌ ❌ ❌ ✅

3 gym days. 18 days i was not here, so its 3/12 days not good at all but building the good habits now
working towards making it a default behavior — not a daily decision.

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💪 Pushups/Situps/Planks (Weekly target: 100 pushups, 100 situps, 15 min planks)

    30 push ups 2:00 plank (still miles away from my standards)

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📱 Screen Time – Goal: Max 2.5 hrs/day

Week	Days Tracked
Week 1	❌ ❌ ❌ ❌ ❌ ❌ ❌
Week 2	7:50 3:08 5:43 5:04  6:52 4:47
Week 3	3:14 4:23 5:30 5:50 4:29 4:26
Week 4	5:57 3:03 5:04 6:41 3:54 3:43

              6:52 5:33 2:34 3:15 6:36 1:33

 An average of 4 hours and 58 minutes

I spend around 4 days and 18 hours of my total awake time on the phone which is horrible 

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📓 Journal + TODO list – Daily

Week	Days Tracked
Week 1	❌ ❌ ❌ ❌ ❌ ❌ ❌
Week 2	❌ ❌ ❌ ❌ ❌ ❌ ❌
Week 3	❌ ❌ ❌ ❌ ❌ ❌ ❌
Week 4	❌ ❌ ❌ ❌ ❌ ❌ ❌

No progress, I have published 2 medium blogs though

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🏃‍♂️ Running Goals

• ✅ Run 2 full marathons

  • ✅ Mumbai: Done

  • ✅ Bangalore: Registered

  • 🔜 Hyderabad: Planned — but prep is off-track

Still off track

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🏃 Half Marathons (Goal: 5; Target Time: 1:40)

• ✅ Seva Bharti – 1:50

• ✅ Mindspace – 2:01:49

• 🔜 Farmhouse Run (Upcoming)

• ⏳ More needed — and speed work is clearly due.

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⏱️ Run 10K in 40 min

Here is my weekly running plan:

🎯 June: Get baseline time + make weekly speed plan.

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📚 Hobby Goals

• ✅ Watched: Panchayat web series

• ✅ Reading Millionaire Fastlane, next one is to reread atomic habits

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🙏 Spiritual Goals

• No progress

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💰 Financial Goals

• ✅ Exited part of stocks: Hdfc bank, 

• ✅ Bought: Swiggy, heromotocorp, SBI, Colpal, TCS, INFY, LICI, ITBEES

• ❌ No gold investment — I will look for a way to do it 

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🤝 Social & Family Goals

• ✅ Invested in friendships —  still missing the desired frequency, I will take it up.

• ✅ Instagram: I am constantly in tussle, I want to build a profile which could help me scale, and sell

• ✅ No forced or one-sided connections

• ✅ No appearance-based comments

• ✅ Talking more with mom — relationship improving

• ⚠️ Not consistent with sister or full inner circle — still working on it

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💻 Professional Goals

• ✅ Started working on system design ideas

• BhumikVaru.com – Bought the domain

  moved the blog there

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🌈 Milestones & Fun Challenges

• =🔜 Shirtless beach/snow photo — need to lose belly fat

• 🔜 NMDC Slam prep — not taken seriously yet

• ❌ Driving — zero action

• ✅ Played with dogs at home 🐶 — lazy dog, but good vibes

• 🔜 Shave head — will go spontaneous, maybe Rishikesh

• ❌ Memorize a poem — pick Kipling’s “If” and still to do

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🛠️ Life Improvements

• ✅ No more skinny jeans

• 🔸 Got a better mattress — room can’t fit a bigger bed

🎉 May Highlights

• Family situation — borewell done

• Running prep was a disaster — still to start

• Eating in downhill zone but recovering

• got the UK visa

• Plants are growing well 

• I got monitor arms now, 

• Got the cot mattress

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🔁 June Priorities

1. Set sleep and wake time as fixed : trying to get there

2. Gym = default unless running/recovery: trying to get there

3. Daily journaling + TODO list — missed the mark

4. Track screen time doing

5. Fix diet — have to be strict there

6. Phone off by 10 PM- started doing it

7. Memorize “If” - yet to do

8. Start BhumikVaru.com — got the domain and moved the blog, you can now read on https://blog.bhumikvaru.com/