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You're a champion @stablish. I don't use windows but the time you put in to help with your mad skillz is appreciated.
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Falafel gets my vote.
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Welcome Tycoon! A journal is a great way to write out your thoughts and a pseudo-forced regular reflection as well. You will be surprised how much it helps!
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Welcome @ModulusX! You've got this
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Excellent, thanks @stablish, I will definitely take you up on that. I have 4 drives that I basically clone once a month to an identical set of 4 drives, via either dd (a few times I haven't got this to work though) or copy and paste the entire drive. I used to have server/NAS running for all my files but found I barely used it and didn't want to have it using so much power or my drives spinning all the time and ultimately failing... and here we are!
I have ordered some new drives so I'll let you know when they arrive!
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Had a few challenging days since the last post. The Friday was not productive at all and I ended up clashing with a lot of people, which caused me to sit and reflect about why it felt that I had taken a big step back with my personal development. In the end after a great talk with Cam I don't think I have taken a step back, more I think I lost focus a little bit for a number of reasons. It was good to hear that Cam and my boss kind of said the same thing that I need to work on but with different applications, so I can focus my energy in that area for now. I feel like I relapsed into the mindset of being frustrated at everyone around me also not being so focused on personal development and productivity rather than utilising my experience and mindset to build a better experience for them. I think I relapsed into this mindset because I was feeling quite anxious about work and study. I used that as a cue to finally get into my study rather than avoiding it and I reprioritised some tasks at work, including some work on my inbox, which leads me into today's podcast takeaways -
Key takeaways:
- I'm not alone thinking that email is such a time sink and slowing productivity rather than improving it! I use the quote "your inbox is a to do list that anyone can write on" when talking to my team at work when they feel overwhelmed with their job list, but yet never close their inbox. We have become slaves to our inbox, receiving on average 120 odd emails a day, yet only 49 of them are something we need to act on. That's a lot of wasted time.
- E-mail filters. I use these quite aggressively already and yes they do take a bit of effort to set up initially, but I have been taking it slowly. I made it part of my morning routine to make 1 new filter a day. As a result after a year (it has almost been a year since I joined GQ - I noticed that today), I have worked my e-mails from 7500 down to 980. I added a new one yesterday though thanks to this podcast - moving all e-mails I am only cc'd (carbon copied) on to a separate folder that I will review once a week.
- Text expansion. This sounds like it could be very useful, I have seen it a lot while typing word documents etc, but I have never used them because I type so fast and found that it slowed me down to select the word it was suggesting etc. The podcast gave me confidence that this has either advanced to a point that this will be useful or that by using it differently it will not slow me down. I am looking forward to tweaking this area.
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I have completely dumped it from my life. I initially found it frustrating due to how many people I had as friends, because I felt really constrained with what I could say or upload. Half of them would think it was good, and the other half would criticise whatever it was. So I stopped posting at all. Then I realised when I was looking in the timeline I was either getting jealous or angry at most people, either because they were out there living their life, or angry because they are just drama queens who won't take responsibility for their own lives. So I stopped looking at the timeline. I occasionally logged on every month or so to clear notifications, but then during the detox I became hyper aware of how much time everyone around me wastes on the site. They tell me how busy they are and how they can't achieve any personal development, but then immediately open their phone and sit on the site or just talk about what "so and so put on facebook".
I was initially anxious that I would lose contact with a lot of people by not using the service, but as soon as I told people I was getting off the service they just reverted to contacting me by other means (WhatsApp generally) and the people that haven't contacted me were people I don't talk to anymore anyway, so why were they my friends? The connections and conversations I have now are much more personal.
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On 3/9/2018 at 6:45 PM, Bugg said:
Day 4. AM
Gonna do a workout this morning, feeling positive about the detox. I keep thinking of my Playstation in the box on my wardrobe and wondering why I haven't sold it yet.
If anyone reading had consoles to sell, at one point did you finally do it?
Also constantly thinking about what to do with my 3DS and Pokémon games, I know I should just get rid, or get rid of my DS at least and maybe hang on to my GBA and the older games, bah, I dunno. Circular thoughts.
Goal: drink 1 pint of water each morning.I had an Xbox, collectors edition of Halo I think it was. I initially didn't sell it and just had it sitting around like you, but then I realised that it was essentially like having $200 odd (I can't remember how much I got for it) just sitting around. I think I initially didn't want to get rid of it because it was a collector's edition and part because I thought I might play it in the future. But, after thinking about how much it is worth and it was just sitting there and gathering dust (I don't watch netflix or DVDs as other uses for it) I felt annoyed by not selling it. The Minimalists have had a strong influence on me as well, and it was not bringing value to my life, but the $200 could, and in the end I put the money I got from it into Acorns. I've made about 4.5%, rather than the value of the Xbox constantly going down. Better than nothing.
As for drinking water - it's a good plan! The Productivity Show mentioned a while ago that when you wake up your brain is really dehydrated from being asleep for so long, and the first thing we do is drink coffee that makes us more dehydrated. I always misinterpreted being dehydrated with caffeine withdrawals. I tried for a long time to put a glass of water next to my bed to drink as soon as I wake up, maybe with a squeeze of lemon, but I never got that reliably in my routine. You've inspired/reminded me to try to get it into my routine again!
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Well done mate, sorry I missed this post earlier. Hopefully you have seen that the detox was just the first step in personal development!
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I'll add you guys to goodreads this afternoon! I want to get into my study this morning and having a quick read of journals first. What is your login @Bugg?
Reading "The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F**k" at the moment. Really good so far.
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Absolutely crushed yesterday. I was super productive and I really want to capture how I achieved this. I woke up at 5am, an hour before everyone else as usual. I immediately did my daily entry, then started getting ready for work. I left for work at around 06.30, and arrived well before anyone else. I did not open my e-mail and started working through my to do list. I put my messenger on do not disturb and put my headphones in. Five hours later I got back on top of my to do list, and another two to three hours later I started to run out of things to do. If I can replicate this most days, then I should be able to create capacity to study by the end of today, which I am really excited about. It's almost the end of the first week and I haven't opened the content yet, and I think because I am avoiding it because I am a little anxious about the topic. I will "sit with it" by dedicating all day Saturday to it, rip the bandaid off.
Podcast of Value:
Deep Dive with Adam Roa: Insights from my Vision Quest
Key takeaways:
- There is plenty of stuff to do in our days, but we need to focus on things we are compassionate about. To achieve this we need to create space (which I interpret as creating the right environment, which I am big on).
- Meditation. I still need to get serious about meditation. Adam talks about using meditation to force you to listen, and this is probably why my friends at work were saying my meditation sessions are not real meditation sessions, as they were all active. I need to focus on listening. Listening to myself or the environment.
- Action. I relate this directly to meditation and my study. Sure my first couple of attempts are not going to be super valuable, and the first delving into this study content will be challenging, but I will get a lot out of trying anyway, through action. This should be a reason to take action in these two areas rather than avoiding it. Intention.
Now to get the 5 minute journal app!
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The detox was great for me to get into books, so I do recommend reading on kindle. An iPad might strain your eyes though, so maybe a Kindle or something else. I have switched almost entirely to Audible and listen to books on the go, and have jumped onboard the Goodreads 2018 challenge of reading 47 books. We can share some titles!
Linux server administration might be a great topic to get into, because it could result in a job that you could work from home.
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I am impressed with a Mewtwo tattoo!
For your friend that said you are always on a personal development mission, Erik Finman made a great comment about responding to people who said you have changed.
"Oh and you haven't? That must be boring to stay the same."
That not is the exact words, but you get the picture. Always try to keep growing and changing! I'll try and find the exact tweet for you later.
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That's what you need to challenge - your intent. The intent behind your gaming was to escape reality or escape life or escape your problems, so you're keeping that intent by trying to find something else to escape with. Instead, try to confront reality or life or problems head on. Using the example of my anxiety, I gamed to avoid the feelings of anxiety or the situations that made me feel anxious, rather than dealing with the anxiety itself. The end result was the problem never got better, at best it stayed the same but probably got worse. Years later I am looking more and more to try and escape those feelings, therefore playing more and more. The detox was great to use that time and "sit with it" to focus on personal development and combat those feelings. Like the detox, it will be uncomfortable at first but in the long run it will have a lot of benefit.
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So, I attempted to conduct an update of my phone this week, and as a result completely nuked my device. It was really my own fault, as I did not understand all of the instructions and my tech knowledge is slipping in the last few years. So I have spent a great chunk of time getting my phone back to a working state. There is some things to be grateful for in this situation though - I managed to remove a lot of Google stuff again which I was looking at a new phone for, and I am now running 8.0. So it's essentially like having a brand new phone for $0! Thats a bargain. It's also hilarious that this was the last podcast added to my favourites list before I wiped my phone:
Productivity Show - Overcoming Digital Clutter: Strategies for Reducing Stress and Regaining Focus
Key takeaways:
- I am quite aggressive with my e-mail filters, and only open my inbox at set times during the day. They talk a lot about software-generated/automatic filters, so I am already on the right path.
- Training your brain. I find this really relatable/comparable to the 90 day detox, as they talk about doing small steps towards doing something and you will get better and better at it over time as your brain becomes re-wired.
- Social Media. They "ripped the bandaid off" with social media, even with the fear of losing contact with a lot of people like we tend to do, and what has stopped me from deleting my facebook account. Turns out it probably is not an issue! Very true points here.
Now if I can only find my 5 minute journal app...
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The first 20 days are the toughest for sure, because your brain just wants that dopamine hit. Once you hit the mid to high 20s, you're home and hosed. Your brain has mostly given up and started looking to other things for enjoyment, and depending what your intent was and what hobbies you have inserted into that time, it might be getting enjoyment out of studying and working or spending time with your family.
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So I haven't started looking at my study yet but I had a super productive day yesterday so I am very pleased with myself. I did do some research on the 5 minute journal after yesterday's entry. All of the website returns kept pointing towards Intelligent Change or a variant of it. The journal had a price tag of US $25 plus postage (I didn't go far enough in the process to find out how much postage was) so I looked at apps as an alternative. They also make an app for $7, so I bought that instead (saved $25 at least! winning!). It seems like a really well designed app, so I will keep using that for a little while and see how it works out before I recommend it to anyone else.
Alright today's podcast that I found value in is:
School of Greatness: Train Your Brain
I really enjoy long podcasts as it feels very personal, being involved in a conversation, but the short podcasts are great too, because they are clear, concise and get straight to the point - all things I value. This one with Lewis Howes was a 5 minute Friday (it's actually 7 minutes if you include the intro and wrap up at the end).
Key takeaways:
- Attention units. This is a big problem I have with preoccupation, especially with games; I would spend all my attention units thinking about games or preparing for them. The end result at the end of the day is when I want to focus on something else such as study or work or family, all my attention units were used up already. Social media is another sink for attention units, and I see that everywhere around me that people are wasting their time on social media.
- Focus your mind. The 5 minute journal will help shape my mindset towards being more productive and achieving more during the day. When I say being more productive and achieving more - while it would be great to cram absolutely everything in my day, what I mean is being more productive towards my goals, and achieving more that I value, more than productive and achieving more in general/generically.
- Neuroscience - this term peaked my interest and is something I would like to look into later.
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Without even clicking play I am mesmerized with the beard.
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Ok thanks @stablish.
I submitted a few quote requests to several data recovering companies, and they're all quoting around $250. I think that is worth it for what could possibly be up to 3 months of files. I will have to get a second drive for them to copy them onto first - the only other drive I have is the backup drive, so it will be a few weeks before I get this fixed.
The silver lining in the cloud here is it has encouraged me to replace my drives! They're the same age so they all will likely have these issues soon. I think they are roughly 5-6 years old each. I'll try to work out a reminder in 4 years to swap them out to save me $250
If I can write the script to be executed whenever I need it, that would be super helpful. I manually run dd to backup my laptop and then drag and drop the files for the drive which has had permission errors a few times. If there was a script I could execute instead that would be awesome! This is the part of Linux I really like, how you can automate so much stuff, I just haven't got my hands dirty with it yet.
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Today is the first day of University for the year, and I am weirdly excited. Maybe part of it is knowing that this should be the final year (when I pass everything - notice the when not the if), part of it is reading about Moe's success, and part of it is heading back to the realm of hyper-productivity after letting myself relax and switch off for the last few months. I have been quickly looking at a few techniques to help me hit the ground running (other than the "sit with it" mantra) and as we already know a lot of places keep talking about journalling. I want to avoid spending an hour plus on my journal like I was previously, but I still want to journal, so I have seen a bit about the "5 minute journal". I am going to google that in a moment (after I google hard drive recovery services), but before I go, today's podcast that I am finding value in is:
GameQuitter's Podcast #19: How to Binge on Productivity
I have listened to all of the GQ podcast episodes again as they are bringing me value again (the one with Amber Valdez is particularly moving) and this one is really standing out to me. I can't remember if I thought it was really valuable last time, but it is definitely useful now as I look towards making study my main focus going forward in the short term.
Key takeaways:
- 5 Minute Journal. I am hoping this will bring the benefits of journalling and mind sweeping, but also not take up all my time in the mornings like my last entries have been doing. Don't get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with long journal entries, I do enjoy writing them and I enjoy reading other people's to see how they are going and how I can add value to their life, but I think I might reserve those for weekly wrap ups rather than daily posts to maximise productivity
- Pomodoro timer. I have read nothing but good things about Pomodoro timers but have never bought one. I could use my phone but I'd prefer to have my phone in a different room while I study to minimise distractions.
- Meditation. I need to start taking this seriously. I need my "loading screen for life". I have talked about my meditation methods and styles with a friend at work and his comment was "mate, that's not meditating at all". I think I try to force myself to think too much in those windows, whereas it should be time to slow down.
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I am running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.
I have attached the smart-results.txt file to this post.
I was actually in the process of backing up this drive when it failed, which is disappointing! I'm not super upset that it might fail, but my other backup I think is about 3-4 months old as I didn't do it over the holiday break so I will lose some files at least, which if I could avoid that would be awesome.
The only thought about the cron job is that I don't always connect this drive, I try to only connect it when I need it to extend its life, so I would assume the cronjob would fail more often than not.
While you look at the smart-results file I will google what hard drive recovery services are nearby.
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So excited for you bro! That must have been the best feeling in the world and you have earned a huge pat on the back. Looking forward to being part of your journey from here!
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How have you gone with selling your PS4? I found the best thing I did for going down this path is changing my environment totally. So I sold my xbox and packed up my gaming computer. I uninstalled everything off my phone and went greyscale. It's a bit painful/annoying at first but it forces you at least to not sit in the same chair/look at the same screen for which you have muscle memory for playing games.
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I am very grateful for the opportunities I have right now of listening to so many podcasts. I am finding quite a lot which I am stashing for future use and I hope someone else can find useful as well.
The latest one I have found is:
Jordan Harbinger Show: Art of Crisis Leadership
So Jordan Harbinger used to be the host of the Art of Charm. I have no idea what happened and why he left, I found out about it through an advertisement on an alternative podcast. He has started his own show now, which is essentially the same thing with a different title. This episode, with Rob Weinhold, (no I don't know who he is either), he talks about crisis leadership.
Key takeaways:
- The first thing about crisis leadership is admitting or accepting that you are in a crisis.
- The real leaders take responsibility or accountability for the crisis rather than trying to push the blame somewhere else. These are the types of leaders people want to follow.
- Look for opportunities to turn a crisis into an advantage.
I look forward to listening to this one again as well.
University returns Monday for me, which means it is time to get back to being hyper focused. I have allowed myself to "let go" this year. Combine this with the amount of work I have been doing and it feels like I am a bit awash and floating in the stream, similar to those foggy type feelings when I was spending so much time gaming. I am somewhat excited about the prospect of studying and having something tangible to work towards that I value. I am going into this subject (or study year) with very clear intention, something that i haven't had with study for a while.
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The GameQuitters podcast is great, I think I have listened to all of the episodes about 3 times. I do thoroughly recommend episode 14, where two very attractive intelligent individuals have a chat about some useful tips that I still use almost a year on. Did I mention they are attractive and intelligent?
I am sure @Cam Adair would agree!
As for the skipping/stopping - that must be unique to your device/app. I haven't had any concerns with the GQ podcasts, and I listen to them at fast speed without any dramas. Have you tried a different app or different set of headphones (if you are using bluetooth)? I have experienced static with some podcasts on fast speed, I can only assume the stop/starting might because you're streaming it and your connection is dropping out. Try downloading the episode first and then listening to it from local storage.
I like that you're getting into podcasts instead of gaming. I'm huge into podcasts now and can give you recommendations on personal development and current affairs. It's my main source of the news and I listen to podcasts rather than watch tv or other time wasting activity. Great to run to as well, though be careful which ones you listen to because it can make you emotional which makes running difficult!
And the most pretentious coffee one can order is a soy tumeric latte with a twist of lemon in a ceramic cup that can be reused washed only with mineral water
I'd really like to try one to see what all the craze is about but I can't bring myself to order it! Haha