No useless videos for 90 days.

[Yan]

Entry 22.5
Day 127: No Useless Videos
Day 959: Sticking to Food schedule
Day 562: Eating Only between 06:30 and 19:00 (Last bite before 19:00)
Day 110: Being in bed before 23:15

3 Things I did well, no matter how small 
-8 Concentrated work units
-Afternoon jog
-50 minutes or so german learning

1 Thing I could do better
-Having planned for the pears before the food plan started, even better to write the plan on Tuesday just in case i forget smthng

Gaming (Death, Slavery, Regret, Disease) - 5
Yan (Life, Individuality, Freedom, Purpose, Self-Fulfillment) - 128

[allanjchiang]

Well done on sticking to your habits for so long. I can appreciate the amount of effort it must have taken to achieve over 100 days of no useless videos. I struggle with this a lot.

Great work on learning German for 50 minutes and doing an afternoon jog.

What do you use to learn German?

[Yan]

Entry 23.5
Day 128: No Useless Videos
Day 960: Sticking to Food schedule
Day 563: Eating Only between 06:30 and 19:00 (Last bite before 19:00)
Day 111: Being in bed before 23:15

3 Things I did well, no matter how small 
-8 Concentrated work units
-Afternoon workout [ legs, chest, stairs ]
-Effectively washed clothes in the morning (Done everything fast and earned extra time to do it)

1 Thing I could do better
-Write a planned time for each part of the food preparation process, so that I'd have a measuring stick to overcome and maybe so I'll be more effective.

Gaming (Death, Slavery, Regret, Disease) - 5
Yan (Life, Individuality, Freedom, Purpose, Self-Fulfillment) - 129

[Yan]

12 hours ago, allanjchiang said:

Well done on sticking to your habits for so long. I can appreciate the amount of effort it must have taken to achieve over 100 days of no useless videos. I struggle with this a lot.

Great work on learning German for 50 minutes and doing an afternoon jog.

What do you use to learn German?

 

1 Day at a time. I've actually had over 800 days before that, just saying 🙂


Thanks for the pat on the back, appreciate it!

I currently use DW learn German to learn German, but I finished 2 trees in Duolingo - German to Spanish and Spanish to German, also I've learned quite a bit in Memrise and listened to songs with subtitles, and well a lot of stuff. I've been learning for 7 years or so. Are you interested in learning German? 

[allanjchiang]

You're welcome.

I learnt German for a few months because I liked a German company and wanted to work there. But they rejected my application because I didn't have a visa. As a New Zealander, I could only stay for three months.

By trees, do you mean the entire curriculum?

[Yan]

Entry 24.5
Day 129: No Useless Videos
Day 961: Sticking to Food schedule
Day 564: Eating Only between 06:30 and 19:00 (Last bite before 19:00)
Day 112: Being in bed before 23:15

3 Things I did well, no matter how small 
-8 Concentrated work units
-Afternoon workout [ Shoulders, back, stairs]
-Writing timeframes for each part of the food prep and managing to finish in under 70 minutes

1 Thing I could do better
-Write some sort of point system if i don't reach the main goal of sticking to schedule within 10 minute range

Gaming (Death, Slavery, Regret, Disease) - 5
Yan (Life, Individuality, Freedom, Purpose, Self-Fulfillment) - 130

[allanjchiang]

I feel a bit jealous that you were able to do 8 concentrated work units. Although, I guess another way of thinking about it is that you were able to do that. It is possible. And then I could perhaps think, maybe I can do that too. Rather than framing it as jealousy, I could frame it as an opportunity. Something like that. I could probably be kinder to myself. After writing that, I forgot that I already attended a 2 hour class this morning. I felt like I had wasted the whole day but actually, maybe I didn't.

One of the things Cam mentions in his 60+ hobby ideas tools is cooking. And I keep setting myself huge goals of making restaurant quality dinner. But maybe, I could start small. Maybe just learn how to cook rice or something.

[Yan]

On 5/24/2025 at 10:04 AM, allanjchiang said:

You're welcome.

I learnt German for a few months because I liked a German company and wanted to work there. But they rejected my application because I didn't have a visa. As a New Zealander, I could only stay for three months.

By trees, do you mean the entire curriculum?

Gotcha' You can always try again and again until they will just give up on saying no to you and understand the have no choice :))))) MAybe it's already irrelevant, but that's just a thought.

Yes, that is what I meant by trees.

[Yan]

18 hours ago, allanjchiang said:

I feel a bit jealous that you were able to do 8 concentrated work units. Although, I guess another way of thinking about it is that you were able to do that. It is possible. And then I could perhaps think, maybe I can do that too. Rather than framing it as jealousy, I could frame it as an opportunity. Something like that. I could probably be kinder to myself. After writing that, I forgot that I already attended a 2 hour class this morning. I felt like I had wasted the whole day but actually, maybe I didn't.

One of the things Cam mentions in his 60+ hobby ideas tools is cooking. And I keep setting myself huge goals of making restaurant quality dinner. But maybe, I could start small. Maybe just learn how to cook rice or something.

Will try to reply a bit more thoroughly the following days, sleep deadline is looming

[Yan]

Entry 25.5 (Written on 25.5, just didn't manage to press the post button so posted on 26.6)
Day 130: No Useless Videos
Day 962: Sticking to Food schedule
Day 565: Eating Only between 06:30 and 19:00 (Last bite before 19:00)
Day 113: Being in bed before 23:15

3 Things I did well, no matter how small 
-11 Concentrated work units
-75% effort run  having increased by another 10 minutes the fourth time now
-One more hour learning German

1 Thing I could do better
-Perhaps coconut oil needs to remain 30g after all? Will need to see the next week if the effects of 60g remain as today

Gaming (Death, Slavery, Regret, Disease) - 5
Yan (Life, Individuality, Freedom, Purpose, Self-Fulfillment) - 131

[allanjchiang]

What do you mean by this?

"Gaming (Death, Slavery, Regret, Disease) - 5
Yan (Life, Individuality, Freedom, Purpose, Self-Fulfillment) - 131"

[Yan]

Entry 26.5 (Written on 27.5)
Day 131: No Useless Videos
Day 963: Sticking to Food schedule
Day 566: Eating Only between 06:30 and 19:00 (Last bite before 19:00)
Day 114: Being in bed before 23:15

3 Things I did well, no matter how small 
-11 Concentrated work units
-20 minute call regarding inserts
-Following schedule within 10 minutes delay until new apartment mate came

1 Thing I could do better
-A weekly schedule can be in order, to make sure enough time is given to the value of health (non-habitual things like tooth cleaning, shoe inserts, nutrition, etc.)

Gaming (Death, Slavery, Regret, Disease) - 5
Yan (Life, Individuality, Freedom, Purpose, Self-Fulfillment) - 132
 

20 hours ago, allanjchiang said:

What do you mean by this?

"Gaming (Death, Slavery, Regret, Disease) - 5
Yan (Life, Individuality, Freedom, Purpose, Self-Fulfillment) - 131"

This is the battle between good and evil as I see it for myself, since there is no absolute evil. - Yan scored 131, Gaming scored 5

[Yan]

Entry 27.5 (Written on 28.5)
Day 132: No Useless Videos
Day 964: Sticking to Food schedule
Day 567: Eating Only between 06:30 and 19:00 (Last bite before 19:00)
Day 115: Being in bed before 23:15

3 Things I did well, no matter how small 
-8 Concentrated work units
-30 minutes of progress regarding yearly tax report
-Afternoon Jog

1 Thing I could do better
-When apartment mate starts chit-chatting with me during plates wash don't give in to his "provocation" when he starts telling about his life and his difficulties, and don't go off on a lecturing streak or "advice streak" which he is trying to evoke I guess. In this specific case it resulted in 20 minutes or so of time I could devote to German or studying for Practices

Gaming (Death, Slavery, Regret, Disease) - 5
Yan (Life, Individuality, Freedom, Purpose, Self-Fulfillment) - 133

[Yan]

Entry 28.5
Day 133: No Useless Videos
Day 965: Sticking to Food schedule
Day 568: Eating Only between 06:30 and 19:00 (Last bite before 19:00)
Day 116: Being in bed before 23:15

3 Things I did well, no matter how small 
-9 Concentrated work units
-Having devoted 8 hours to sleep at night
-Afternoon Workout

1 Thing I could do better
-Do not continue the mastermind call with the new guy probably. It was´t written in schedule... and even if i do make a deadline of 10 minutes and state it in advance!

Gaming (Death, Slavery, Regret, Disease) - 5
Yan (Life, Individuality, Freedom, Purpose, Self-Fulfillment) - 134

[Yan]

Entry 29.5
Day 134: No Useless Videos
Day 966: Sticking to Food schedule
Day 569: Eating Only between 06:30 and 19:00 (Last bite before 19:00)
Day 117: Being in bed before 23:15

3 Things I did well, no matter how small 
-7 Concentrated work units
-38 hours fast or so
-75% effort run

1 Thing I could do better
-Throw out the spoiled peas and not eat them. Even though I do not feel bad and 3 hours passed, it was still the wrong decision to eat them if I have more in stock. It can be doing damage even if I don't feel "bad"

Gaming (Death, Slavery, Regret, Disease) - 5
Yan (Life, Individuality, Freedom, Purpose, Self-Fulfillment) - 135

[Yan]

On 5/25/2025 at 4:46 AM, allanjchiang said:

I feel a bit jealous that you were able to do 8 concentrated work units. Although, I guess another way of thinking about it is that you were able to do that. It is possible. And then I could perhaps think, maybe I can do that too. Rather than framing it as jealousy, I could frame it as an opportunity. Something like that. I could probably be kinder to myself. After writing that, I forgot that I already attended a 2 hour class this morning. I felt like I had wasted the whole day but actually, maybe I didn't.

One of the things Cam mentions in his 60+ hobby ideas tools is cooking. And I keep setting myself huge goals of making restaurant quality dinner. But maybe, I could start small. Maybe just learn how to cook rice or something.

You never know what the other person passed through in order to get to where they are, and you don't even know if what they say is true exactly, not because they're lying outright, but sometimes they even are "cheating" themselves.

For example, I've been eating throughout some of my "concentrated" units for a while.

Also I do not earn money as of now. I have a Visa without permission to work in Spain. Although I got myself to this situation through long years of work. 

And, when I wasn't in this situation I was also doing concentrated units. But there are just such a boatload of information you don't have. Never compare yourself to others.

That person you see running at a 3min/km pace, you don't know if he is running for 5 minutes or for 5 hours, you also don't know if he's been training for 10 years or 10 days. Focus on doing your best and that's it. You vs. you.

Definitely start small, Rome wasn't built in a day. 

Way to go on noticing the things you did well. 

I also think this 3 things well to 1 thing I could improve ratio are beneficial, because they allow you to remain confident but still always look for something to improve 🙂

Hope this helps.
 

[allanjchiang]

13 hours ago, Yan said:

You never know what the other person passed through in order to get to where they are, and you don't even know if what they say is true exactly, not because they're lying outright, but sometimes they even are "cheating" themselves.

For example, I've been eating throughout some of my "concentrated" units for a while.

Also I do not earn money as of now. I have a Visa without permission to work in Spain. Although I got myself to this situation through long years of work. 

And, when I wasn't in this situation I was also doing concentrated units. But there are just such a boatload of information you don't have. Never compare yourself to others.

That person you see running at a 3min/km pace, you don't know if he is running for 5 minutes or for 5 hours, you also don't know if he's been training for 10 years or 10 days. Focus on doing your best and that's it. You vs. you.

Definitely start small, Rome wasn't built in a day. 

Way to go on noticing the things you did well. 

I also think this 3 things well to 1 thing I could improve ratio are beneficial, because they allow you to remain confident but still always look for something to improve 🙂

Hope this helps.
 

Thank you for sharing your perspective. Yes, this helps a lot. That's very kind of you.

[Yan]

Entry 30.5
Day 135: No Useless Videos
Day 967: Sticking to Food schedule
Day 570: Eating Only between 06:30 and 19:00 (Last bite before 19:00)
Day 118: Being in bed before 23:15

3 Things I did well, no matter how small 
-10 Concentrated work units
-1 Hour of practical studies
-1 hour of german studies

1 Thing I could do better
-Eat and do concentrated units separatly

Gaming (Death, Slavery, Regret, Disease) - 5
Yan (Life, Individuality, Freedom, Purpose, Self-Fulfillment) - 136

[Yan]

Entry 31.5 (Postyed on 1.6, written on 31.5)
Day 136: No Useless Videos
Day 968: Sticking to Food schedule
Day 571: Eating Only between 06:30 and 19:00 (Last bite before 19:00)
Day 119: Being in bed before 23:15

3 Things I did well, no matter how small 
-4 Concentrated work units
-Food and concentrated units separately
-30 min reading book of practices

1 Thing I could do better
-Next week possibly include double the quinoa instead of lentils to make it more time efficient (but run it through cronometer first if its okay like this and then reversing it), possibly also replace edamame (so 3 times the quinoa or so do a 3 part roatation

Gaming (Death, Slavery, Regret, Disease) - 5
Yan (Life, Individuality, Freedom, Purpose, Self-Fulfillment) - 137

[allanjchiang]

On 5/31/2025 at 8:00 AM, Yan said:

Entry 30.5
Day 135: No Useless Videos
Day 967: Sticking to Food schedule
Day 570: Eating Only between 06:30 and 19:00 (Last bite before 19:00)
Day 118: Being in bed before 23:15

3 Things I did well, no matter how small 
-10 Concentrated work units
-1 Hour of practical studies
-1 hour of german studies

1 Thing I could do better
-Eat and do concentrated units separatly

Gaming (Death, Slavery, Regret, Disease) - 5
Yan (Life, Individuality, Freedom, Purpose, Self-Fulfillment) - 136

Well done. I can appreciate the effort it takes to write in your journal everyday on here. I also liked the bold formatting, makes it easier for you to read in the future. And the red color for gaming and green color for yan.

I wish Cam would make it so copy pasting also translates the formatting such as boldness of text and text colors. I have to redo it everytime :')

[Yan]

Entry 1.6
Day 137: No Useless Videos
Day 969: Sticking to Food schedule
Day 572: Eating Only between 06:30 and 19:00 (Last bite before 19:00)
Day 120: Being in bed before 23:15

3 Things I did well, no matter how small 
-4 Concentrated work units
-Food and concentrated units separately second day 
-sending about 6 emails regarding looking for a person who can help me find an optimal german studying path

1 Thing I could do better
-Make lifetime week count in these posts

Gaming (Death, Slavery, Regret, Disease) - 5
Yan (Life, Individuality, Freedom, Purpose, Self-Fulfillment) - 138

[Yan]

Entry 2.6 (Written on 4.6)
Day 138: No Useless Videos
Day 970: Sticking to Food schedule
Day 573: Eating Only between 06:30 and 19:00 (Last bite before 19:00)
Day 121: Being in bed before 23:15

3 Things I did well, no matter how small 
-3 Concentrated work units
-Driving lesson with full focus
-sending about 6 emails regarding looking for a person who can help me find an optimal german studying path

1 Thing I could do better
-Place the evening routine, most of it at least, before the lesson.

Gaming (Death, Slavery, Regret, Disease) - 5
Yan (Life, Individuality, Freedom, Purpose, Self-Fulfillment) - 139

[Yan]

Entry 3.6 (Written on 4.6)
Day 139: No Useless Videos
Day 971: Sticking to Food schedule
Day 574: Eating Only between 06:30 and 19:00 (Last bite before 19:00)
Day 122: Being in bed before 23:15

3 Things I did well, no matter how small 
-4 Concentrated work units
-Getting a blender! I am very stingy often, but I wrote in my schedule to check it out and get one if it's around 25 Euros. So I got it, let's see if it functions to save time tomorrow 🙂
-Sending the remaining four emails to the German professors left on the list

1 Thing I could do better
-Make 4 pomodoros an inseparable block. turning everything off and starting it a new takes time, apart from the fact of how much focus it requires to return to the task each time

Gaming (Death, Slavery, Regret, Disease) - 5
Yan (Life, Individuality, Freedom, Purpose, Self-Fulfillment) - 140

[Yan]

On 6/1/2025 at 10:41 AM, allanjchiang said:

Well done. I can appreciate the effort it takes to write in your journal everyday on here. I also liked the bold formatting, makes it easier for you to read in the future. And the red color for gaming and green color for yan.

I wish Cam would make it so copy pasting also translates the formatting such as boldness of text and text colors. I have to redo it everytime :')

Definitely, agreed. Indeed having to re-do it every time takes a while. I think though we may probably find a way to do it, using the "Code" function above this window. I should probably look into this 🙂

And thanks for the feedback regarding appreciating my effort 🙂

[Yan]

Entry 4.6 (Written on 5.6)
Day 140: No Useless Videos
Day 972: Sticking to Food schedule
Day 575: Eating Only between 06:30 and 19:00 (Last bite before 19:00)
Day 123: Being in bed before 23:15

3 Things I did well, no matter how small 
-4 Concentrated work units
- 30 minutes devoted to financial report
- Having given an indication that I may attentd at 18 the driving lesson after all (Thought of a solution to go there before, have the call that i had scheduled before that there and then go to the lesson exactly after

1 Thing I could do better
- Place an alarm clock for leaving to workout deadline, I guess I had more luck than brains for waking up just on time 

Gaming (Death, Slavery, Regret, Disease) - 5
Yan (Life, Individuality, Freedom, Purpose, Self-Fulfillment) - 141