I actually feel that i am one of the odd ones out, as 2020 proved to be one of my best years ever!
I had just changed job in feb 2020, it was the highest paid role ive had so far. On top of that Lockdown since march 2020 has proved amazing for me! Its only impacted me in a positive way.
Yes i love working from home, even before lockdowns started and ive always preferred working at home then in office, so usually tend to do atleast once a day a week at home but now being home permanently, its just so much better! You save so much more money too, no stupid £12 a day travel cards here in london, no £10 lunches, thats a significant saving right there that i can use on other things instead!
On top of that cause i dont need to wake up early anymore to get ready and go into work, i actually have an extra 3-4 hours in my life to go to bed at a much later time! This has proved amazing and life changing (more on that later). Now i get to spend a lot more time doing stuff that i always wanted to do but never could because i was always short on time. Be that learning digital drawing or learning something else, watching tv shows or just playing video games. Ive probably completed more games in 2020 then i did in the last 10 years and thats saying something, and its all thanks to those extra hours i now have in my life, which i will sorely miss once offices reopen
Now the biggest change and impact on me has been my weight loss! For years i have been overweight, and never been bothered to try and lose that extra weight, it got even worse in lockdown since i rose another 5kg+ from march 2020 to august 2020. I ended up being 106kg!!! This was up from 95kg from the year before. To be honest i have always been 90+kg from whenever i can remember, but never touched the 100kg mark and when i reached this i just felt bad and tired, if i went out anywhere ie. shopping i started finding it harder to stand while waiting in queues, sometimes i used to get high BP alerts on my apple watch when watching tv at night and started sweating etc...
So in August 2020, i decided to change this round and that enough is enough, this is the best time to change things for myself and if i dont do it now then i never will! So i researched around the web about ways to loose weight and spent a few days just researching, reading things and contacting groups, using apps etc.. then i started a diet plan from september 2020, instantly within a week i saw kg after kg dropping! Ofcourse it was a lot faster then it is now, i also started doing some simple exercises and light weight lifting at home in the middle of the night while watching tv before going to bed, its now Feb 2021 and so far i have lost over 20kg+ and now sitting at 83kg and feeling the best i have ever felt!
To be honest, it wasn't even that hard! I used the extra hours i had at night thanks to no office in the morning to maybe exercise 30mins and just learned to control my portions, okay at the start i did stop eating things i used to really love but never felt bad as i knew what my goal was. I also have a weakness of eating a lot at night and constantly get this urge to snack or eat something while watching tv, at the start i replaced those snacks/meals with exercise and it helped take my mind off the food, its still a weakness however and i still even now get those urges especially on weekends when i sleep even later, but now just give in to the temptatio sometimes
but hate seeing that weight go up the next morning
Sorry for all the rambling, i didn't know i was going to write so much
but yes as you can see 2020 was hugely a great year for me, probably one of the best i ever had both professionally and personally! I dont see how any year in the future could truly match, yet surpass 2020 for me, i hope and pray it does and that i see even better years but that is going to be tough.
I am truly fortunate for 2020 as i know many people had the worse year of there lives, loosing jobs and loosing close ones
I really hope 2021 improves for everyone that is currently having a hard time, fight it guys, you will come out of it and succeed!