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Entry 17.05
Day 596: No Useless Videos
Day 593: Sticking to Food schedule
Day 197: Eating Only between 06:30 and 19:00 (Last bite before 19:00)
Day 188: Being in bed before 23:15
3 Things I did well no matter how small
-8 pomdoros
-7 hrs deliveries
-didn't accept the last delivery in order to get back home in the agreed time with apartment mates1 Thing I could do better
-When feeling sleepy do visualization -
Entry 16.05
Day 595: No Useless Videos
Day 5921: Sticking to Food schedule
Day 196: Eating Only between 06:30 and 19:00 (Last bite before 19:00)
Day 187: Being in bed before 23:15
3 Things I did well no matter how small
-Going to an interview
-4 hrs of physical activity
-8 pomodoros even though i got delayed in interview1 Thing I could do better
-Try avoid dozing off, or limit it more-
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Entry 15.05 (Written on 16.05)
Day 594: No Useless Videos
Day 591: Sticking to Food schedule
Day 195: Eating Only between 06:30 and 19:00 (Last bite before 19:00)
Day 186: Being in bed before 23:15
3 Things I did well no matter how small
-about 22 hr fast
-4 hrs of physical activity
-cutting deliveries short so that I arrive to pickup the groceries from my apartment mate and get it to home on time.1 Thing I could do better
-Such a small thing - 5 minutes that I need to designate in the evening to journaling, and i do not do even that.... If I do not accomplish such a small thing how may I expect to accomplish the big ones? Get it done! -
Entry 14.05 (Written on 15.05)
Day 593: No Useless Videos
Day 590: Sticking to Food schedule
Day 194: Eating Only between 06:30 and 19:00 (Last bite before 19:00)
Day 185: Being in bed before 23:15
3 Things I did well no matter how small
-8 pomodoros and I would've finished the analysis post and started the video script, but it wouldn' allow me to add a form so I 've had to tinker with it. I do feel I'm making much more progress now with a sense of urgency, after the post of two days ago
-4 hrs of physical activity
-1.5 hrs job search1 Thing I could do better
-Still look for a way to journal in the evening. I did leave the time for it in this case but I decided to use it to masturbate. Which is also not so bad, I think it was the right choice. I haven't done that for a long time and it's a great practice for health, especially with the frequency I do it -
17 hours ago, wheatbiscuit said:
~ The Little Book of Stoicism, by Jonas Salzjeber ~
Book #2 recommended here (that I read) by @Yan:
So there were 5 chapters, the 5th and final one comprised of fifty-five (55) stoic practices, which I paid the most attention to. I noticed while googling that someone on Reddit tried to live one of them for that many consecutive days. Creative!
Wow, that was lightning speed of a read. Awesome! I don't think I actually wrote the exercises down, but because I re-listened to the book several times, when it came to difficult situations I changed y perspective, doing the best in the moment etc. Again way to go! Stay awesome!
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Entry 13.05 (Written on 14.05)
Day 592: No Useless Videos
Day 589: Sticking to Food schedule
Day 193: Eating Only between 06:30 and 19:00 (Last bite before 19:00)
Day 184: Being in bed before 23:15
3 Things I did well no matter how small
-8 pomodoros and i feel I've done some progress more than earlier
-27 deliveries, 7 hours of deliveries coompensating for yesterday
-a 1hr and 45 min workout compensating for yesterday' lack1 Thing I could do better
-Finish shower a tad bit earlier. ' cause I did start writing the journal yesterday but I only had about one minute left and I decided to watch messages during this one minute (Instead of thinking about 1 thing I could do better, 'cause I wrote all the rest already. -
Entry 12.05 (Written on 13.05)
Day 591: No Useless Videos
Day 588: Sticking to Food schedule
Day 192: Eating Only between 06:30 and 19:00 (Last bite before 19:00)
Day 183: Being in bed before 23:15
3 Things I did well no matter how small
-8 pomodoros once more which is cool as a basis Day 10, now lets see if I can nail the goal of tonight's post 🙂
-No deliveries once I saw the app is closed
-Writing the nightly post even though it was at the expense of two hours of sleep. It's a red flag that had to be raised. However, I probably shouldn't allow it to happen very often or I'll harm my sleep and as a result health and well being1 Thing I could do better
-Evening journal before sleep before whatsapp mail (Finish shower a tad bit earlier)-
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So it is the middle of the night and I thought I'd just write sporadically to take the load off my thoughts.
I have just woke up because I've peed myself.
Physically it happened likely because I drank the usual amount of water I'm used to but did half the exercise ( I did the bare minimum of half an hour of main set (+about 15 minutes of warmup and cooldown together while usually I'm used to doing at least 55 minutes of main set + in the last week and a half at least 3 hours on the bike )
But why did I do so little?
The courier app didn't work today because of a holiday (Day of remembering the fallen soldiers of Israel in the history of our conflicts) so in contrast to the last day when it happened (The holocaust day) where I decided to just keep riding for a few hours without deliveries, I decided to return home as soon as I saw the app doesn't work.
Last time after I've been biking for 3 hours without deliveries I wrote an entry here that this is what I would rather do, return home once I discovered the app doesn't work, so that I ay instead do more deliveries the next day. And meanwhile do some activity I was supposed o do the next day which I may do even if the courier app doesn't work,
So this is something I deserve a pat on the back about as of itself (Returning home)
I decided to do about 3 hours of job search now, which I had scheduled for tomorrow and then tomorrow do 3 more hours of deliveries instead of the job search (Plus do a 30 minute jog to maintain some calory balance and do some heart activity)
The trouble is that as you probably know momentum is a strong thing, and it was already evening. So I pooped and thus lost some time, then I dd do an hour of job search, and then... I don't know if it was really because of physical tiredness because I slept for 5-6 hours the last two days, or it was just because of trying to escape reality, but what happened is I dozed off for 2 hours.
Thank god when I woke up I decided to do the minimal workout before the eventual 23:15 being in bed deadline.
And i even managed to squeeze a 25 minute cold shower. But still I did allow myself to doze off as I often do. (By the way in the afternoon I dozed off for an hour too.
I think some of it has to do with me seeing my apartment mate who is 53 years old doing that all the time.
Another part though is because I do not see progress in my marketing efforts.
I have now for a few WEEKS! been just blankly staring at my blog posts with barely any progress. I'm writing some text then erasing it, and researching every little assumption further and further, instead of writing a general outline, writing some Ideas and going to the next post. I end up with a huge amount of data which is probably not something anyone will read, and also confuses myself. But evenif they will read it and it is something interesting, still it is better to concentrate on one thing every post, this will help me gather momentum and get more things done, whereas when I have no commitment to post I just write and rewrite things forever, and really test less things and assumptions.
Because the testing really only occurs when the content piece sees the world.
You see the reason I'm really writing all this is that as I've been cleaning myself up and washing my underwear from the pee A very, very strong urge to play games was present, and I've been trying to understand why it happened.
As I wrote in the diary of Dark a few days earlier, this aging urge is not something that just came today it is likely something that has been gathering up over some time and the current events are just sort of triggers to make this urge stronger.
So I felt I must raise a red flag and change something before it's too late. Because eventually if this urge continues, again and again - It will win most likely.
Self-discipline is not infinite. And as Benjamin Hardy's book title says "Willpower Doesn't Work"
I must find a way to make my environment provide me with the necessary feelings and fulfillment of needs not to have this urge arise as it has been happening for quite some time for me now.
And this is likely due to the fact that I'm stepping in one place.
I mean lets be real here.
My goal was to publish a blog post and video every week. I have not done so for almost 4 months now (some blog posts are published but I haven't finished the cycle that's what I mean)
There's nothing more honest than that.Shouldn't lie to myself.
It's great that I'm eating and staring blankly at the screen thinking how I should progress my blog and I call that "pomodoro time" even though I actually accomplish nothing. But it is NOT enough.
I must come up with some sort of compensation system for results - Which is actually publishing the content, not just the amount I put in.
Because Imagine what would happen if salesmen were paid only for calls they make.
They could then make 1,000 calls in 3 months and make no sales. Who would benefit? Nobody... This time would be lost and in the end of the day the salesman didn't help the company or any of the clients by helping them reach a decision and use the product which may improve their lives.
So it is with my marketing efforts. I do not want to be compensated for calls any longer.
Of course the minimum of time devoted to it must remain that - This time still has to be devoted to it.
Back to the salesman case - If he didn't make any calls of course he wouldn't make any sales... But the reward should be for the sales, not for the calls.
Here's what I want to do:
The current minimum of 8 pomodoros is cool and should remain that. I also want to continue writing about it in my general journal entries - documenting the length of the streak.
BUT, on top of that I want to have an overall goal of a weekly content cycle.
granted I will probably not nail it from the first time, and that's cool because I do not want to set goals that I'm 100 percent sure I will make, because then I'm not learning anything.
Then I will have gathered some points if I complete it within one week, less points if I do it within two and even less if i do it within 3
Once more thinking out loud the trouble is that I have two god damn goals. One is moving abroad which requires me to do job search and earn more money while the other is becoming financially free which is for a little more long term.
But It shouldn't hinder eachother.
I may do both. It is just about feeling urgency. I do have an urgency in my "finding job" and moving abroad goal because I've set a mental deadline of 21.7 for the move. I don't even remember why any longer, but that's the date. Even though I am starting to doubt that date since I still haven't gathered the amount of money necessary for the move
After a brief pause to look at my bank account and think how much more money I need, it seems possible that within two months I'll have the amount. The only question is whether there will be enough time to get a visa and find an accommodation and order flight tickets and find a solution for how to move my items abroad... That's what I want to focus on now. First stop is a meeting at the embassy to ask them if we may start the process to speed it up and within 2 months time when I'll have the full sum, finish it.
After yet another pause I'm back after sending a mail to the embassy to ask them the same question, also would like to call them on their working schedule between 9 and 13 tomorrow (Hopefully they work despite the Mamory day.)
Anyway, back to my marketing goals.
I think I found a reward system that might suit me without any indulgences as a reward.
Here´s the plan:
If I publish both content types including the ads from end to end within 1 week, and it doesn't matter if it's flawed - I get 200 ₪ (About 60$) into my "Helping my brother learn how to bike lessons" reward fund. (Just sent an e-mail to find out how much it will cost generally)
If I do the same within two weeks - 100₪
If three weeks - 50₪
Anything after that gets no reward.
Today I'm about half-way there in my current content piece.
So let's say the current 1 week goal mark will be to finish all the content cycle by 16.05 mid-day.
Starting 1 minute after that and till mid-day in 23.05 it's the two weeks reward
1 minute after that and till 30.05 mid-day it's the 3-week reward.
1 minute after that - none.
I think that sums up my nightly rant. Gotta' go get some sleep-
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5 hours ago, wheatbiscuit said:
U da best 😉 Don't forget to let me know how it was, I'd love to hear that!!!
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Entry 11.05 (Written on 12.05)
Day 590: No Useless Videos
Day 587: Sticking to Food schedule
Day 191: Eating Only between 06:30 and 19:00 (Last bite before 19:00)
Day 182: Being in bed before 23:15
3 Things I did well no matter how small
-8 pomodoros! !! Day 9 and I placed it over 10 hours of deliveries and just barely did 7 instead
-7 hours of deliveries thus completing 40 overall on the weekend despite celebrating brother's birthday and devoting to it something like 7 hours yesterday
-Cleaning kitchen flor within 50 minutes or so1 Thing I could do better
-Write weekly schedule first, then look at jobs etc. if needed... it caused me to be about 20 minutes late from this task.. (The fact that I go a bit distrated -
3 hours ago, wheatbiscuit said:
~ The Courage to be Disliked - Ichiro Kishimi & Fumitake Koga ~
I decided to post about this book here for two reasons: 1) Most of the feedback I gave on books recommended to me by a friend was on Discord, and I typed too much there. 2) I think enough of it relates to the journeys people here are on that come with addiction; even to ways of thinking about it. This is not a review - because I'm no expert critic - but I thought maybe other people aside from @Pochatok, who shared this book openly, might also find an 'in'/reason to give it a try.
Edit: I recommended the 'Silo' trilogy last year, and still kind of do - I loaned the first one to a friend last month. Hugh Howey is the author.
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The thing that's sticking in my memory the most is the idea of generally having either vertical or horizontal relationships, almost like a (cartesian) plane in maths. It is really hard to successfully avoid talking down to people in any way whatsoever, but the dialogue in the book basically highlights an importance of making horizontal relationships a habit. To use another related point from the book, one solution is to see other people as comrades, not enemies. I take an unfortunate lyric (sarcastic or otherwise) from one of my favourite singers, 'Strength means blessed with an enemy'. That really only felt true for me when I had few friends, as a much younger boy, and when I rarely felt a moment of peace. 'Us/me against the world' is another one which I don't think stands the test of time.
For another, the most often repeated statement was 'All problems are interpersonal relationship problems'. I think one argument from the youth was, "But of course! Climbing the social ladder is all that matters/the only purpose we've got, right?" - I paraphrase because I'm not at the stage of whipping the book open to quote from yet. But actually, the (Alfred 'Adlerian') philosopher was saying that people have fears of simply having healthy relationships with whomever, wherever. If one gives a relationship a sincere effort, to discover a complete lack of virtues (or something or other), he briefly suggests severing it, but also saying that (I think) without enthusiasm. The point being giving a horizontal relationship an honest try. As Cam says of gaming friends, perhaps never having seen the intricacies of the other person/people's faces and their reactions, a lot of those relationships can turn out to be superficial and stagnate when the game is no longer played or shared. I confess to 'clearing' my game's 'friends list' regularly a few times every year, back in the day. It really says something.
--> There are more things of course, and I should say that reading a book that is pure dialogue can become addictive and even dramatic in the mind. The writing made that mostly worth it though.
I am grateful for Po's sharing this alongside a particularly helpful post while journalling, which made me mentally kick myself until I actually committed to checking it out. As I said to my mom last night, even someone like me can usually trace the knowledge or idea(s) that another individual, not myself, put forward, and that that gives it more weight in my mind to consider than the average rumination I might get on my own.
Good luck for the weekend,
~ Matt
Hey, regarding making friends not enemies, I'd suggest the book "The Little Book of Stoicism" By Jonas Salzgeber, I listened to it about 7 times or so. It has a pretty awesome way to look on relationships in my opinion, which allows you peace of mind. It says something to the gist of "To make mistakes is human, to forgive is godlike" and "Even if men do harm it is because that is the best way they know to act at the moment, and even then when they harm others its okay to forgive them, because even if they initially intended to do so, it still doesn't mean its not a mistake" "Because we men are made for each other, we are made to be a part of a whole, we are brothers, being angry at others or keeping grudge simply hurts ourselves, not the other person" "on the contrary if they're angry at us it hurts them, we do not have to react in the same way." all these are very rough outlines and "sketchy word illustrations" I'd really suggest the book 🙂
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Entry 10.05 (Written on 11.05)
Day 589: No Useless Videos
Day 586: Sticking to Food schedule
Day 190: Eating Only between 06:30 and 19:00 (Last bite before 19:00)
Day 181: Being in bed before 23:15
3 Things I did well no matter how small
-8 pomodoros! !! (Day 😎 - Even though it was the first-time i did one of them after 18, still I completed all 8 so It counts 😉 )
-The bare minimum of 3 hours of deliveries, despite going to brother's BDay celebration
-Even though it took me 2 hours to decide what to buy my brother and find the place that sells it on a weekend (Friday in our country is weekend) eventually pulling the trigger and ordering it for another day, thus allowing myself to nail the goals of 8 pomodoros and 3 hrs deliveries and more than 3 hrs of quality time with the family1 Thing I could do better
-Having planned brother's gift in advance, It would have probably saved me some 1.5 precious hours plus the gift would have arrived he same day, instead of him having to wait about a week now.
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21 hours ago, wheatbiscuit said:
Edit: For a regular post I'll be prouder of
Not sure I understand. (Anyway wanted to say that I wanted to correct myself a bit and say that every day is a new opportunity to prove yourself (because the count is not exactly 0 but it is pretty close. You have your momentum and background, but today you decide what you're going to do all over again 🙂 )
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Entry 09.05 (Written on 10.05)
Day 588: No Useless Videos
Day 585: Sticking to Food schedule
Day 189: Eating Only between 06:30 and 19:00 (Last bite before 19:00)
Day 180: Being in bed before 23:15
3 Things I did well no matter how small
-8 pomodoros! !! (Day 7)
-4 hrs physical activity
-dozed off for only about 15 minutes which allowed me to do a lot more job search (on table, not allowing myself to go to bed 🙂 )1 Thing I could do better
-Write definite goals for food prep so that I may write and measure times more effectively as I used to:
Say
1. Put dishes to their places from dryer+ Get dishes prepared for meal + start eating banana (if earlier then 6:30 if not, add this to point 2.
2. Get food out of fridge
3. Weigh food apart for tahini
4. Throw out food trash, wash hands, put remaining food to fridge.
5. Pour tahini, cleanup if there's anything left + go to room
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3 hours ago, wheatbiscuit said:
~ I wasn't discouraged enough during my warm-up walk to not enter the gym. I was able to remind myself that my mood would likely stay low-ish if I didn't try to do something. It was a compromise of hack squats, between going all-out as planned and giving in to 'just chest pressing'
~ I got to watch the sky turn from dark to light whilst actually lifting!
Hit the gas mate, every day you wake up, the count is 0 🙂
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Entry 08.05 (Written on 09.05)
Day 587: No Useless Videos
Day 584: Sticking to Food schedule
Day 188: Eating Only between 06:30 and 19:00 (Last bite before 19:00)
Day 179: Being in bed before 23:15
3 Things I did well no matter how small
-8 pomodoros yet again
-4 hrs physical activity
-going to two nterviews1 Thing I could do better
-The sae as yesterday, stop the napping momentum of two hours which I'm building as a habit -
Limit naps to half hour and see how it goes when I'm extra tired do job search because its a less demanding activity -
Entry 07.05 (Written on 08.05)
Day 586: No Useless Videos
Day 583: Sticking to Food schedule
Day 187: Eating Only between 06:30 and 19:00 (Last bite before 19:00)
Day 178: Being in bed before 23:15
3 Things I did well no matter how small
-8 pomodoros
-0.5 hr visualization in sun
-1 hr run at the gym i used to work1 Thing I could do better
-Limit naps to half hour and see how it goes.-
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Entry 06.05 (Written on 07.05)
Day 585: No Useless Videos
Day 582: Sticking to Food schedule
Day 186: Eating Only between 06:30 and 19:00 (Last bite before 19:00)
Day 177: Being in bed before 23:15
3 Things I did well no matter how small
-8 pomodoros (awesome 🙂 )
-2.5 hrs job search
-about 4.5 hrs physical activity1 Thing I could do better
-Got to finish 8 pomodoros earlier and job search so that I leave on time for deliveries stat, so that I may go to sleep on time. (8 hours. Not 7 or 6) -
On 4/28/2024 at 10:10 PM, Dark said:
I am again having an urge to play games. I finally got some things together but it returns. Dont know what to do
And thank you for sharing this with us! One more quote: "I'm not telling you its going to be easy - I'm telling you its going to be worth it." Remind me please what's your "clean day count?"
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On 4/28/2024 at 10:10 PM, Dark said:
I am again having an urge to play games. I finally got some things together but it returns. Dont know what to do
"Stand guard at the door of your mind" - often attributed to motivational speaker Jim Rohn.
When you try to think how you don't want to play games, you eventually end up wanting to play them more. Instead reinforce the vision every day of what you want to achieve instead. In the beginning its going to be harder but it will become second nature more and more as you go.
But again note that this gaming urge is something that builds up overtime. You keep thinking how you actually want it and that everything else is not real because you're deceiving yourself. Instead you've got to set real goals to help you stay on the right track towards better self-fulfillment. Remember - all you're doing with games is avoiding reality...-
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Entry 05.05 (Written on 06.05)
Day 584: No Useless Videos
Day 581: Sticking to Food schedule
Day 185: Eating Only between 06:30 and 19:00 (Last bite before 19:00)
Day 176: Being in bed before 23:15
3 Things I did well no matter how small
-8 pomodoros
-Filled out a few lead forms regarding getting job interview consultation
-Attending another job interview1 Thing I could do better
-When I found out the delivery app stopped working, instead of just wondering on the bike for 3 hours could have gone home, and done some job searching -
Entry 04.05 (Written on 05.05)
Day 583: No Useless Videos
Day 580: Sticking to Food schedule
Day 184: Eating Only between 06:30 and 19:00 (Last bite before 19:00)
Day 175: Being in bed before 23:15
3 Things I did well no matter how small
-8 pomodoros
-Wash room floor
-Made a custom weekly schedule including food schedule. planning everything with deliveries instead of gym + making enough place for job search and at least 8 blog pomodoros and workout and deliveries and brother's bday. Even though it took me an extra 1hr 45min I believe it will save some headache in the long run 🙂1 Thing I could do better
-Still try to stick to timeframe even though the changes are large, because this delay caused me to do 3 hours less of deliveries, and eat in very small spaces, which made my digestive juices rise when I rode. (Note: this might also be because the lentils and quinoa have been cooked with relatively little water) -
Entry 03.05 (Written on 04.05)
Day 582: No Useless Videos
Day 579: Sticking to Food schedule
Day 183: Eating Only between 06:30 and 19:00 (Last bite before 19:00)
Day 174: Being in bed before 23:15
3 Things I did well no matter how small
-8 pomodoros
-order from grocery store very quickly
-7.5 hrs deliveries1 Thing I could do better
-I believe I'll increase my consumption of some of the nuts I bought and compensate for the difference with my regular "Osher ad" stre visit which is planned in about a week. They also have nuts at fine prices.
Food Schedule update(Starting 07.05 'till 21.05 not including the 21)- I'll start with the ingredients I have 'till the next osherad purchase. Then purchase all the things that are lacking, again, may always go for less but never more)
1 day after 4 hour ride + Workout of about 1 hr (If not completed these requirements - revert to old schedule)
1. Added 20 g Tahini
2. Added 35g almonds
3. Added 30g peas
4. Added 20g olive oil
5. Omitted chickpeas for now
For Saturday-Sunday (In case I go over 7 hours)
1. Brazil 15g instead of 4-9
2. Tahini 70g instead of 50
3. Walnuts - None
4. Olive oil 100ml instead of 30ml
5. Green peas 200g instead of 100g
6. Coconut oil - 100ml
7. Two-Three carrots remain the same as usual on saturday
8. Peanut butter - None
9. Almonds remain 50g 50g separated into two meals
In case under 7 hours the same as today
(2-3 carrots. orange+apple+cabbage, 60g peanut butter, 45x2 walnuts, 55x2 almonds)
Don't know If I can handle it, but I can always go for less...
Upd 04.05 7:13 AM - I may still change this food schedule 'till I start with it (For now it seems I'll go with it even in case I do just 3 hours of deliveries and 1 hr workout. So that I stay with a calorie surplus)
Upd 07.05 6:27 AM just before starting this schedule - I am allowed to eat the meal in the first case after a day of 3 hours deliveries and 55 min main workout set, also I may eat chickpeas 'till they run out, that's it no more changes for now =/ (Also replaced 50g coconut oil with 70g pistachios peeled on weekends
Upd 07.05 6:43 AM chickpeas only the cooked part I mean
Upd 13.05 6:53 AM to clarify, when I didn't get to 3hr ride and 1hr workout as written, all the notes in the above list are to be reversed.-
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Entry 02.05 (Written on 03.05)
Day 581: No Useless Videos
Day 578: Sticking to Food schedule
Day 182: Eating Only between 06:30 and 19:00 (Last bite before 19:00)
Day 173: Being in bed before 23:15
3 Things I did well no matter how small
-2 hrs job search
-5.5 hrs physical activity (Deliveries+workout)
-7 pomodoros1 Thing I could do better
-Start a count of at least 8 pomodoros before 18 in the evening, the last part of day is where I'd rather do simpler tasks like a job or moving the body, they help maintaining more alert, thus doubling the productivity, If it's the other way around I mostly just doze off..
However this will have to depend on the kind of job I'll get... but for now as I do deliveries I may do that probably...
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It's surely only part of the story, but my way to cope with message overwhelm is that I first turned off my whatsapp notifications. So that I don't hear them or it doesn't vibrate and i don't have the phone flashing from it. Then I just set a habit of opening it only once a day along with any social media(Even if I accidentally open it because I need some data and see some messages I do not answer unless its related to a current task directly.) Also If I really need someone I do allow myself to call them. And if it was important enough to call them or physically do some action, then I may use messages as part of what I'm "currently doing", this takes effort to create like any other habit, but I think it's more useful than blocking anyone. In this case at least I'll have the opportunity to see and respond to what they have to say 🙂
Hope this helps.