Life Balance rework.

Final project wrap up and reflection:

I was going to clean this up but it’s already taken up a lot of my time and I (hope) don’t think it’s that bad. Sorry if it is.

The results for what I viewed as an aggressive plan were great in so many ways. I achieved things I had attempted several times before and not gotten as far as I did this time so that’s incredibly awesome. There were definitely thing that I was forced to deal with and other things I brushed up against but haven’t yet done anything about as of yet. All that said, I do feel like I didn’t stabilize into the place I wanted to be though I don’t say that in any way negatively. This last month has laid foundation that I feel I need to build upon and I want to see what it becomes so I’m going to do another 30 day project right away. It isn’t going to be the same but will try to push me further forward into that successful stability I seek.

The multi-pronged approach was quite a lot in my head to take on and previously I wouldn’t have advised it but I’m not so sure about saying that now. Thinking back on things, I think the fact that I could succeed in several points helped me a lot to not see days as complete write offs just because I struggled in another area. Sometimes that’s really hard to overcome when you are just focusing on one thing at a time. On the other hand, if you are making a ton of adjustments, it is easy to be overwhelmed and drop key things you need to work on with so many separate areas.
I think for this Dk30 project at least, there were a few things which made this work well. The first is that none of the projects points were in conflict with each other. They all occupied separate time slots and mental spaces. They were not all “projects” or “tasks” but some where behavioural, some were interest explorations, and all were low intensity in nature. By keeping the requirement low it was easy to just show up for them but still be rewarded or scale up if I felt like it. There was some Japanese times when I would just not feel it that much and just sat there listening. On the flip side, I also allowed myself to slip out if I felt it was really grinding against me that day after a few minutes as I didn’t want to build resentment for the task. One other dynamic it set up was that if I did one, it allowed me to use the success of one to dovetail into the next or provide a “redemption” method in a way if I didn’t do great with an earlier task. They were all in the same mindset of wanting to do better so each one reminded me of the others in an abstract way, I think.
There are problems with it as I said, if you learn a bunch of ways to improve or adjust, you cannot really add anything to the set without something dropping off. I think in future, I’ll start writing adjustments I realize in a notebook and only actually implement ones which are critical to the success of those points right away. Maybe drop one or two each week to improve on but otherwise I forget them. Though I have to admit that it feels bad to ignore improvements you’ve realized but they either have to happen naturally or be written down as trying to adding each one as you go is too much. For me there was also one more problem in that I was using several of the points to support one big goal’s change and when that didn’t pan out it brought a lot of things down on others that were doing great. Possibly, while they were supporting what I wanted to do, they also were distracting me from just dealing with the core problem in a more focused manner. May be something that isn’t really intrinsic to doing multiple points in a project though.

Overall, quite happy with how it worked out. Building a skeleton of a structure with several points did work better than I expected, especially as I’m someone who typically likes to monofocus on one thing typically so I can do it well. I suppose this also allowed me to avoid hyperfocusing on that one thing which may be another benefit as well. The collection of points gave me a good general structure without being rigid to work with and allowed me to stay positive even when I was struggling so I’d say for what I was doing it worked really well. I’m not quite sure how well it would work if this was a larger, more intense or focused project goal however. First time though so we’ll see how it works on repeated attempts.

I’ll end with a summery evaluation of how I think I did overall:

Schedule consistency:
-> Morning: ❌
-> Sleep: ✔
Mornings I still struggle with as I feel trapped by the strictness of my set routine but doing less allows me to just fail to be productive. This is something I should have more actively addressed and while I tried to be gentle about it, I don’t think that ultimately did me any good. Sleep though was kept consistent and was the backbone of my success and ultimately is what I broke and led to me ending early. More generally, scheduling my day was inconsistent but far better to help me engage in the flow and alter things when they were needed. Cleaning up my mornings and scheduling in a smoother way will be key to success moving forward. Sleep remains my linchpin though I did realize this time that I might not be as fragile in that manner as I thought. I need to try pushing myself more when I’m tired but making sure I also set a limit when it doesn’t work where I pivot into a backup plan to salvage the day instead.

Exercise: ✔
Again, more inconsistent than most things but I still started, adapted well when my program didn’t quite fit for me, and generally integrated fitness and movement into my day more. Plenty of room to improve though.

Project “Self-management”: ❌
I think I failed with this as it was not a solution to the core issue it was attempting to solve. While a great addition, useful, and helped me be more aware of the core issue, it wasn’t something I actually engaged in. I largely avoided the direct attention the problem required and that pushed this out of relevance.

Meditate: ❌
More of a victim of another problem, it was good when I did it but ultimately felt like something I was forcing without fulfilling it’s core purpose that I put it in that spot for.

Learn Japanese: ✔
Probably my most consistent thing I did and while not extremely strong near the end, I keep coming back and feel very good about it as a whole where I am now. I actually feel like I’m learning a language and will be able to use it if I just keep at it even at this more relaxed pace.

Eat healthy: ✔
Achieved what I wanted to by keeping me aware when I’m taking food and making decisions about things at that time to my benefit.

Art skill improvement: ✔
I was inconsistent but I still ended up pushing myself into the course and I’m excited and still coming back to it so I’m alright with this.

Gains/Losses:
➕ Dealt with several large issues and productivity problems
➕ Learned new sketch concepts and actually applied them
➕ Restarted Japanese, got father than ever, actually “got” content in several places, can recognize several characters now and speak.
➕ Learned that simply using smaller plate was very effective counter to overeating.
➕ Set up good project management board even if I didn’t use it much.
➕ Got back into exercising and adapted well when program didn’t fit into my day.
➕ Generally kept to a sleeping at set times.
➕ Feel engaged, more aware, and healthy in how I deal with life in general. Even when I fall apart.
➕ While still very strict with evaluations, I was more fair in my notes of myself.
➖ ???
Expectation Losses:
⛛ Didn’t keep to mornings very much.
⛛ Meditation didn’t come into effect when I needed it in mornings that I got off track.
⛛ My original core goal of deal with programming block didn’t become change in a consistent manner during the time I worked at it. (though I did break through that goal)
⛛ My timeline didn’t get advanced.

{Only after making this have I realize how all the losses I would list are only what could have been. Not actual losses. I think I’m going to use this in future to show myself in a very concrete manner how much I’m gaining by even doing a project badly without actually losing anything. The only think I could put as a loss is time but really I have no better idea or I would have done that so I cannot claim that as an actual lost}

Realizing now that what I achieved was absolutely amazing and that in Jan/Feb, I couldn’t hope to make a list like this, it’s everything I was craving when I started. The feelings of not quite getting there are valid but also quite greedy. It’s a great start and doesn’t need to be what I wanted right away. Any progress will get me there and this is a lot of progress.

P.S. Forgot about the system being the baseline for my success instead of the top tier goal dynamic but I think I lost sight of that partway. Still a good thing for this system and something I’ll need to remember for the success of the next one. It’s not about setting goals for my best result, it’s giving me a baseline that I can take and go beyond with. Hmmm.

Final Summary:
So I had in interesting breakdown of my DK30. I reached a day where I was doing well and hitting my points but my brain refused to cooperate with what I was working on. I kept pushing and putting more and more effort to push through it and ended up only draining myself of all will power. I ended up not sleeping that night or the next and then my schedule fell apart after that.
However, while that was happening I noticed I didn’t just end and fall into despair. I could feel a resilience and more graceful degradation of things rather than my normal collapse. Also, while I was contending with old worries and concerns I could feel a perspective shift from normal that kept things from getting really rough on me which was amazing to see and feel. Overall, this gave way to a desire to really just reflect and brood on what happened and sort out what was bothering me.
It took about a week as I avoided things, whether out of an unconscious need for distance from the issue or just wandering around the problem, I did realize several things over that time which are good to learn.
The first was directly from that first bad day in that I never realized how bad I was at just being ok with being mediocre. To put in another perspective, I am always in the mindset to keep improving on anything I see that isn’t at where I see it could/should be as a problem to solve and work on. It’s less that I need to do so and more that it’s just a habit I just keep viewing everything should be improved if and when I see I can. Several problems result from that though is that I easily overload myself, take on too much and dilute my overall progress on improving ~ as noted earlier in this Dk30, and I simply place myself in an unhealthy position by not doing those things deliberately.
As an extension of this, I can see that my plans and image of success in my head are that of my ideal and not of a realistic, humanly achievable embodiment of my goals. That is very problematic and something I’ll have to work on. After talking to a good friend of mine, I also have come to realize that there may be an aspect of not seeing my plan of success as including downtime or fluctuations in the long term. They more of ramp up to on point and hold there forever. I was also challenged to possibly consider more of a three week on and then one planned off. Something I’ll need to reflect on more to consider.
I’ve learned several other lesson during this time and while I cannot view the period as strictly a growing as a person period, as I did fall apart, it wasn’t without benefit. While it’s taken a huge chunk of my time and I’m still not 100% back to form, I’m at peace with what happened.
My final evaluation of this Dk30 can only be that of a success as I’m far better off than where I was when I started. Actually, I’ve been incredibly successful on several points and had results that went far beyond what I though would happen with this. Indeed, this was what I was craving for the two month before and needed to experience. With the new perspective and adjustments I’m pretty sure I’m going to dive into a new one right away that is adjusted slightly so that I don’t focus on that one point and to counter the feelings of being on the clock that hurt this one. No matter what, I’m very happy as I’m way further than I would be without it and with this I think I’ll get there with more time and adjustments.

(I’ll be adding to this entry on April 10th and detailing how it was to work on my first project that had so many points to it and giving a more mile high reflection on it. Then writing up a new dk30 probably from what I learned as I’m feeling strong on this plan. I want to see it reach realistic stability with all I’ve learned from this one)

Format for daily posts (to make it easy in future updates)

March 24 ~ Day 17

Completion:

• Schedule consistency ❌
• Exercise ✔
• “Self Management” for projects ❌
• Meditate ❌
• Japanese ✔
• Eat Healthy ✔
• Art ✔

Notes:
Still not free of issue but sunk back into troubled morning again today. Still have most of the day ok but was really struggling with normal 2nd/3rd day post sleep processing issues that come with that. Nothing major but frustrating when I keep dropping my train of thought and remembering something and then getting blocked on actually recalling a word or such.
For this day I will say I should have instead been more targeted in my approach to make sure I am doing the best with what I had to work with and learning to adapt/compensate smartly for such low energy days. By all means I should be lowering the expected intensity and performance I normally strive for but I can still change things to try and get the best that I am currently capable of doing done. Minimizing and learning/working around common fail points that happen with such states and trying new things or even swapping out high intensity tasks for lower focus ones is something I think I’ve relaxed too much on without too much benefit. Will take some doing but I do want to try and work on that if I can.
That aside though, I think the key change here will be to work on pushing through my uncomfortable feelings with doing things differently in the morning for a bit. While perhaps it will just take time to shift my perspective on the routine, I will to listen and adapt a bit as well if it just gets worse. I keep feeling resistance locked into a schedule “cage” from first thing in the morning and I know that will just undermine me if I keep it up too long. I’m aiming for a more structured flow with a healthy space to breath so I need to make sure I’m doing that. For now though I might just be resisting changing my slower mornings so pushing myself more explicitly strictly there will tell me one way or another which it is.

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March 23 ~ Day 16

Completion:

• Schedule consistency ❌
• Exercise ❌
• “Self Management” for projects ❌
• Meditate ❌
• Japanese ❌
• Eat Healthy ❌
• Art ❌

Notes:
This day just basically didn’t exist for me as that sleep and pushing all caught up with me and I had zero will to do anything. I just let myself recover and survive the day rather than push and extend the downtime. Given that such massive sleep disruptions rarely happen, I’m not going to worry about this part of things for the time being.

March 22 ~ Day 15

Completion:

• Schedule consistency ✔
• Exercise ✔
• “Self Management” for projects ✔
• Meditate ✔
• Japanese ✔
• Eat Healthy ✔
• Art ✔

Notes:
While not perfect, I kicked butt today and did everything well and really hit the tone I wanted! A wonderful way to get back on track and finally get to the coding and development! That part especially went so well I was blown away! The worst/best part of all of this is that I did so after having woken up many times last night and especially at 4 am and wide awake for about 2 hours. I was prepared for a hell of a day but not in this way, for sure. Certainly there was a slow start and drop off of energy but even those I felt like I was managing well anyway! I’m so very happy with this result! I’ll catch up on the previous post some other time. Then again, if I keep up like this, they will be somewhat irrelevant anyway.
Hope and happiness aside, I know myself well enough to know this is partly the result of my consistency and that over the next day or too the price I felt like I should have paid will probably hit me then instead. I will do my best to counter it and keep going but if I fail I’m not going to be too upset. I’ll just do my best and take better care for that day or two if need be and get back to it.
Didn’t mention it before but the Japanese is especially showing great strides over the past few days! Art too is setting into a rhythm though I know it will only get better from here as I start to do the course more regularly.

March 21 ~ Day 14

Completion:

• Schedule consistency ✔ (Started terrible but salvaged it)
• Exercise ❌
• “Self Management” for projects ✔
• Meditate ❌
• Japanese ✔
• Eat Healthy ✔
• Art ✔

Notes:
Tasks that got delayed from previous day ended up immediately throwing me off at start of the day but after completing I salvaged the messed up start very well. I reflected on various things that had been bothering me, in a little unstructured way but still effective. I then got into cleaning up my space and reworking my desktop, clean up computer files and file structure, and creating some new dynamics on my computer which should come in quite handy. My afternoon and evening turned out to be amazingly productive and excellent for reframing and reengaging in my system.
While not detailing all my Sunday evaluation, which will unfortunately have to be wrapped up tomorrow morning, I will note that I intend to adjust how I am enjoying my downtime in light of realizing why I’ve felt it lacking in rewarding engagement. I am definitely noting the effectiveness of using many small irl tasks to refocus back when I’m feeling very lethargic and disconnected from a productive flow. While I still need to figure out the specifics of how to approach my Saturday so I don’t get an unstoppable blob mode started right off the bat, I think some of those irl tasks and a unique morning structure with permitted “squalor goblin” time might work.
One last thing I will note while I have time tonight, I’ve noted that I’ve been making so many adjustments or outright improvement alterations that I’ve started to loose track. Moving forward I’m definitely going to be try and be more deliberate about which adjustments need to happen now and which I need to choose to ignore for now until I have the head space for it. This is something I learned on reflecting on how Day9 approached AoE2 and while it’s going to be a struggle to deliberately ignore something I know could make things better, I have to acknowledge the limits of my brain and the learning process. Deliberately choosing them, listing those to work on later, and prioritizing though should help me learn this.
Overall, I acknowledge that this week was quite chaotic for me but it was also the start of wearing on my willpower. This was somewhat expected as I approached week 3 but now that I’ve observed it, this next week is where I will be expecting and pushing myself a lot more to stick to things. Intro period is over and I really need to put all that I’ve learned over the last two weeks into doing what I’ve set out.
{I may update this Sunday log after completing it tomorrow as I’ve run over my time and need sleep. Need to note achievements, update previous days, finished balancing tasks for the week, and clean up the assessment from today.} ~Even though it wasn’t exercise day I should have been more active in some way but I wasn’t. {More variety in relaxing time activities}

March 20 ~ Day 13

Completion:

• Schedule consistency ❌
• Exercise ❌
• “Self Management” for projects ❌
• Meditate ❌
• Japanese ✔
• Eat Healthy ✔
• Art ❌

Notes:
While I had a loose plan for this day to adjust the problems I’ve been having with the morning, I woke up tired and ended up full squalor goblin most of the day. Part of the was intended as I wanted to relaxed on Saturday but it would seem it is not prudent for me to start with the relaxation. Still not sure how to resolve this partly as I don’t want my week to feel longer but I also don’t want my weekends devolving into just doing nothing at all.
Although it has been a chaotic week, I also noted this day that I was starting to resist the structure of things more than usual. Acknowledging this issue in the evening, I resolved to address it directly the next day with my planning.

{Plate adjustment for eating better works wonderfully}

March 19 ~ Day 12

Completion:

• Schedule consistency ❌
• Exercise ❌
• “Self Management” for projects ✔ (It wasn’t quite as planned but I did manage a degree of this today I think?)
• Meditate ❌
• Japanese ✔
• Eat Healthy ✔
• Art ✔

Notes:
{Eat with portion size in mind but still felt full and was a bit confused as it seemed fine. Decided to adjust by decreasing plate size to adjust how it looks and force smaller portions}

March 18 ~ Day 11

Completion:

• Schedule consistency ❌
• Exercise ✔
• “Self Management” for projects ✔ (technically N/A)
• Meditate ❌
• Japanese ✔
• Eat Healthy ❌ (Portion size fail on dinner)
• Art ✔

Notes:
Today was odd as it was consumed by burning up dead brush instead of any tasks but I knew this would just suddenly happen once the conditions were right to do so. Hence why “Self Management” stuff is technically not applicable today though I still planned my day with it in mind and I had previously known that this day would occur like this so I gave myself it. Slow mornings continue to be a thing so I’m going to need to try and reapply myself to that in particular though the rest of my scheduling is working out pretty well. The eat healthy part I wanted to give myself but ultimately I couldn’t as the portion control on big fancy meals is a big point for the whole goal and one of the main reasons for “eating healthier” as I general do eat quite balanced. It wasn’t so much a conscious choice as much as it never entered my mind but that is still a problem that must be acknowledged and fixed.

March 17 ~ Day 10

Completion:

• Schedule consistency ❌
• Exercise ❌
• “Self Management” for projects ❌
• Meditate ❌
• Japanese ✔
• Eat Healthy ✔
• Art ✔

Notes:
So today wasn’t the best return to form but it wasn’t quite as bad as it appears. My slow and unstructured morning was mostly to blame which alone took out a few items on the list. Exercise has hit a snag with a foot problem so that’s temporarily on hold, though I do accept that my general lack of diligence today was more to blame as I could adapt to make it work. I’ve done the work I missed on Sunday finally so that should help focus my efforts more as well.
I will add a possible improvement to take a bit of time after my Wednesday meetings to just relax, clear my head and reset my focus for at least 5 minutes to help improve my transitions from those as I tend to get lost after events like that in my day.
I was feeling energetic at the end of the day and actually started my art course as part of my art for the day and it went very well indeed!

March 12 - 16 ~ Day 5 - 9

Notes:
For my own sanity, I’m not going to break down all the details for each day. To summarize, I had a bit of a detour on my assigned schedule but one that was needed. It started with me listening a bit to my feelings and pulling back a tad on the intensity and just observing a bit. Came to realize quite a few things about how I default and expect a certain intensity that is really unnatural. Will be applying that insight by taking into the ebb and flow of my own energy into how I structure my days and expectations of myself.
From there the weekend was a bit awkward but I did pull back too much and definite need to improve on just sitting down with what’s bothering me and working it out instead of letting things drag on. Ultimately though I pulled back too much over the weekend and wasn’t engaged at all.
A real big problem for me finally revealed itself Sunday night and I ended up not sleeping at all. After getting really frustrated and keeping to myself to avoid it spilling over to others, I’ve come to realize that by improving and restructuring how I handle my own life, it has necessitated that I likewise evolve how I approach the things around me. Things got misaligned and there are several changes I need to make to those dynamics to continue moving forward as I have been. (such as communicating what I’m doing and working out new ways handling tasks people ask of me)
So in the end, while I haven’t been keeping to my schedule the past few days (though I did hit a few points throughout) I’m quite happy with where I am as a result. Ultimately it was a period of growth and that is really what the schedule was aimed at forcing. Though now I’m am excited to return to it.

March 11 ~ Day 4

Completion:

• Schedule consistency ✔ (Morning process failed but if I’m able to recover and learn from this I’ll give myself this one ~ which I did)
• Exercise ✔
• “Self Management” for projects ❌ (Though I did get to work on it and pulled myself into it I got pulled into another project and then didn’t return to form when I was done it.)
• Meditate ❌
• Japanese ✔
• Eat Healthy ✔
• Art ✔

Notes:
Mid day note: It’s almost 10 am and so far I fell into old morning habits but I was aware that I was resisting the empty feeling of straight to my morning routine and then work. It could be just resistance to change which I just have to learn to push through but it might be that I’m also making a very unpleasant morning process that needs some adjustments. I ended up getting caught up and distracted by things and I’m starting to feel disconnected from what I’m doing.
So to get back on track I made a plan for the day and then realized I needed to start myself moving again with something easy and productive to reconnect and get some momentum. Putting high energy jpop/kpop while updating these is working by just engaging me in assessing and problem solving while feeling productive. Will make bed and clean up quickly, get more light into the room and just start working by using standing desk portion and isolating myself different partition of computer.
Moving forward I need to improve on my recovery skills and awareness but this is a good start. Definitely felt same lethargy as yesterday but able to shake it off now so that’s a good sign that I’m adjusting to schedule. Will move meditation to after lunch as I feel like I need to capitalize on the momentum more right now.
Final entry: I do like how I pulled myself back into my schedule and corrected my early mistake but I didn’t manage to do that twice. (Though part of that I realize the key decision I made and it’s an easy fix.) Still, I did notice that I am feeling much better and able to still hit points again despite messing up. My mental reserves are starting to come back and if I clean up a few problematic points, I should be able to adjust and be solid again soon enough.

March 10 ~ Day 3

Completion:

• Schedule consistency ❌ (Sleep and wake times were good but morning process was a failure)
• Exercise ✔
• “Self Management” for projects ❌
• Meditate ❌
• Japanese ❌
• Eat Healthy ✔
• Art ❌

Notes:
Today was a disaster. I woke up at 6 am which completes my sleep schedule adjustment but not only was I tired I didn’t follow my morning routine and then got pulled completely off by doing project for parents that I had not planned at all for. Even after that I just lacked any engagement in my system. I made critical errors in decisions and had no recovery awareness. I did manage to push myself to exercise but was so empty in the evening that I loaded up Japanese study program and then listened to music and did nothing.
Posting this the next day but to an extent there are some things I can change here but I do think the underlying problem is the strong sleep schedule changes that I should have accounted for and laid things out differently so that I would engage in things when I was in that bad state. For now the one less I can do something about it making a schedule first thing and make sure I deal with distracting requests better.

March 9 ~ Day 2

Completion:

• Schedule consistency ✔
• Exercise ✔
• “Self Management” for projects ✔ (My goodness I tried so I’m giving myself this one)
• Meditate ✔
• Japanese ✔
• Eat Healthy ✔
• Art ✔

Notes:
Today, not unexpectedly, I started with very little brain power and it quickly went downhill to the point where I just could not function. I tried my hardest and pushed as I could as well as giving myself breaks but there was no power for by brain’s light switches today. Even with that said, I still worked hard on all points and only wasn’t productive on the finishing planning and getting work done. All my other projects I managed to scrap through with decent results, made smart adjustments to ensure that (such as changing my cardio exercise to ensure I could do it even though I was actually feeling kinda sick from something else) and nothing was missed so I call that a win.
The second day, especially given I’m adjusting my schedule ahead of time change, is something I know happens so I’m not at all upset about it and I expect the next few days will be a bit of a struggle but much better as I adjust to new habits and mental load.

March 8 ~ Day 1

Completion:

• Schedule consistency ✔
• Exercise ✔
• “Self Management” for projects ✔
• Meditate ✔
• Japanese ✔
• Eat Healthy ✔
• Art ✔

Notes:
Lost mental power at about three but still pushed on. Really struggled to even hear what was said during Japanese study but made the best of it. Technically Project “Self Management” isn’t made yet but working on creating it so I count that. Really happy with this start though sleep is definitely needed. Almost didn’t hit wind down time so I’ll need to be careful in future for that but might just be more that I’m so tired I’m focusing just on staying awake.

Format for daily posts (to make it easy in future updates)

March ~ Day

Completion:

• Schedule consistency ✔❌
• Exercise ✔❌
• “Self Management” for projects ✔❌
• Meditate ✔❌
• Japanese ✔❌
• Eat Healthy ✔❌
• Art ✔❌

Notes:

This is my 7 point plan that focuses on strengthening core areas that I need to function better as well as integrating longer term life goals into my daily life. I am using the same approach I used at the start of the year by stating the goal and then making them goals specific, noting their completion conditions, separating the goal from the actual scheduling, and tracking each goal’s daily completion. I’m setting them as goals to form the base to ensure progress, not lock down my time or even detail all efforts on a goal. For me this is also part of me overhauling how I approach my work and life into two separate organizational systems but I’m focusing specifically on the “life balance” for my DK30.

Dk30 Focuses:

• Schedule consistency → Follow structured mornings and go to bed with consistent evening process.
Completion: 30 days of consistency.

• Exercise → Follow Heroes of Fitness 30 day challenge
Completion: Executing 30 day plan consistently
(Success Follow up: Sign up for HoF full fitness plan)

• Improve “Self Management” for projects → Engage in learning new approach by doing project management sessions weekly and laying out task based breakdowns/self assessments.
Completion: 30 days of consistency.
(Success Follow up: Evaluate further improvements and explore more tools for self management)

• Meditate Regularly → Meditate in morning (with “sunlight” on dark days)
Completion: 30 days of consistency.

• Learn Japanese → Practice Rosetta Stone every day for 30 minutes.
Completion: 30 day of consistency
Long-term Completion: When I complete Rosetta Stone content.

• Eat healthy → Eliminate sugar, reduce portion sizes, and keep meals balanced.
Completion: 30 days of consistency.

• Art skill improvement → Sketch once each day or work on coursework (30 mins)

Bonus goals:

(These are things I’d like to do but I’m not tracking or making sure I do. Just things to keep in mind)

• Healthy computer habits
→ Get up every hour
→ Stay hydrated and sit properly
→ Alternate sitting and standing at desk.

• Read regularly
→ Read in evenings.

• Improve how I speak
→ Take extra hour for Wednesday meetings to process and structure my thoughts.
→ Listen more.
→ Avoid talking over people or rambling.

• Reflection/Blank time
→ Take time to shut out the world regularly. Introspect or just let my brain rest.