Jogging for me is not just a way to exercise but also to meditate. Running around the neighborhood, just listening to music, and observing the world around me are one of the only moments during the day when I can enjoy being in the present, not thinking about what is pending and what happened. However, the benefits do not end there, while being a zen activity for the mind, it also helps me stay fit and develop my cardiovascular health (LO 1).

Initially, however, it was a challenging task to get accustomed to without losing motivation. Jogging is one of the more tedious and unchanging forms of exercise, it takes more time to be effective and can get rather boring because of its repetitive nature of it. Hence, one of the major challenges I faced was to keep the motivation to wake up every day and force myself to get out. I countered this by finding new routes to run along and sometimes taking my father with me for company, this helped me develop my problem-solving skills (LO 2). 

I could not just go in without a plan, so first I got together and planned a plan and set goals which increasingly got harder every week. For example, I would set per day and per week goals on how much distance I want to cover and how much time I want to take etc. (LO 3)

I undertook the experience over the span of 3 months, I started out with short half-hour jogs that only encompassed about a kilometer every day, but gradually as my body adapted and I got used to the stress, I increased the distance and time going up to 5 km a Day in about 1 and half hours, without exhausting myself by the end of the 3rd month. (LO 4). 

In the end, after the initial challenging few weeks, I could see the impact of the exercise, I was sleeping better, and had better composure and more energy which allowed me to perform better in other aspects of my lifestyle like studying. It was a benefitting activity that I would like to make a habit of carrying out for the foreseeable future.