Stage 1, Day 14,
Been making good progress, but boy have I been slow at it.
I have a 3-day weekend, meaning that I've been taking advantage of the opportunity to write as much as I possibly can for my digital product (the one where I wrote 13 K words in a day out of sheer inspiration).
- Wrote 6.6 K words on Saturday.
- Wrote 7.5 K words today (Sunday).
The key lesson is... I need to shut off any videos or external stimuli, because it's undeniable that I type my words much more quickly when everything is turned off.
I've been training for a half-marathon; I ran 6 miles on Thursday, 4 miles on Friday, and ~5 miles on Saturday. I went to my judo class today and got my yellow belt! I'm avoiding pushing myself too hard during my martial arts to avoid injuring myself.
- Had 2 second dates, and even found myself on the coach/close to bed, but I was not attracted enough to either of them to make a move. It's the middle of winter, so it's tough to tell whether they have a rocking bod until they're in a house.
- Fortunately, I had a good looking date yesterday, and I'll have one tomorrow.
Overall, I'm getting a ton of inspiration to get off my ass and get moving on side businesses.
For one, I want to buy a good quality computer that can edit videos and quickly manage/render any video projects for YouTube (I currently have no such projects).
For two, I'm wanting to hire interns (through Acadium) to do a bunch of tasks for my businesses (I currently have no businesses).
For three, I'm wanting to buy a bunch of video equipment to be able to create these videos.
All the while, I want to push myself to be better at my instruments and my foreign languages.
How I get enough time to manage all of this? I have no idea. I figure that if I can monetize my ebook and build an email list, I'll have enough liquid cash to hire people to handle a lot of the lower end tasks, freeing me up for self actualization.
I'm realizing that people my age - I'm 27 going onto 28 - are already making much more money than me in their day jobs. I used to think that my income was hot shit, and I even felt bad for making that amount of money. Now that my living expenses have gone up, I've realized that it's not all that. And since my job recently gave me a raise of a whopping 1% - which means that I'm losing money year-to-year due to inflation - that's enough of a slap to the fact to make me realize that my job doesn't really give a shit. And now that I've actually read through parts of the book called Bull$h!t Jobs, I've realized that I'm both a boxticker and a kind of duct-taper. However, there are consequences for not ticking these boxes fast enough; in fact, it eats up my entire day. I actually laid out the relevance and impact of my daily activities on a scale of 1 to 10 and realized that my work has an impact of under 5; there's a lot of noise about what we do, but we ultimately do very little different. And this fact hasn't been more clear as it has been recently.
Take to make some changes.
Been making good progress, but boy have I been slow at it.
I have a 3-day weekend, meaning that I've been taking advantage of the opportunity to write as much as I possibly can for my digital product (the one where I wrote 13 K words in a day out of sheer inspiration).
- Wrote 6.6 K words on Saturday.
- Wrote 7.5 K words today (Sunday).
The key lesson is... I need to shut off any videos or external stimuli, because it's undeniable that I type my words much more quickly when everything is turned off.
I've been training for a half-marathon; I ran 6 miles on Thursday, 4 miles on Friday, and ~5 miles on Saturday. I went to my judo class today and got my yellow belt! I'm avoiding pushing myself too hard during my martial arts to avoid injuring myself.
- Had 2 second dates, and even found myself on the coach/close to bed, but I was not attracted enough to either of them to make a move. It's the middle of winter, so it's tough to tell whether they have a rocking bod until they're in a house.
- Fortunately, I had a good looking date yesterday, and I'll have one tomorrow.
Overall, I'm getting a ton of inspiration to get off my ass and get moving on side businesses.
For one, I want to buy a good quality computer that can edit videos and quickly manage/render any video projects for YouTube (I currently have no such projects).
For two, I'm wanting to hire interns (through Acadium) to do a bunch of tasks for my businesses (I currently have no businesses).
For three, I'm wanting to buy a bunch of video equipment to be able to create these videos.
All the while, I want to push myself to be better at my instruments and my foreign languages.
How I get enough time to manage all of this? I have no idea. I figure that if I can monetize my ebook and build an email list, I'll have enough liquid cash to hire people to handle a lot of the lower end tasks, freeing me up for self actualization.
I'm realizing that people my age - I'm 27 going onto 28 - are already making much more money than me in their day jobs. I used to think that my income was hot shit, and I even felt bad for making that amount of money. Now that my living expenses have gone up, I've realized that it's not all that. And since my job recently gave me a raise of a whopping 1% - which means that I'm losing money year-to-year due to inflation - that's enough of a slap to the fact to make me realize that my job doesn't really give a shit. And now that I've actually read through parts of the book called Bull$h!t Jobs, I've realized that I'm both a boxticker and a kind of duct-taper. However, there are consequences for not ticking these boxes fast enough; in fact, it eats up my entire day. I actually laid out the relevance and impact of my daily activities on a scale of 1 to 10 and realized that my work has an impact of under 5; there's a lot of noise about what we do, but we ultimately do very little different. And this fact hasn't been more clear as it has been recently.
Take to make some changes.
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