@Shannon: To her fairness, she spent the entire evening bugging the poor guy to join her roommates and her. He finally says 'yes' and has driven directly to her house. I was complicating things by throwing sex into the time-sensitive equation. She was respectful about letting me know. I see where you're coming from, and I myself will give her the charitable interpretation. Either way, I probably won't see her again.
Stage 4, Day 23 (but now 22 because I missed a day),
This portion of the stage has been pretty spectacular, in terms of personal development.
I mean, seriously; looking back to the person I am now compared to who I was two weeks ago completely boggles me.
Since my last post, my parents came back the next morning, and we packed the remainder of my apartment, and drove down to the new city. Felt a bit sad leaving, for the sake of my former sexual partner (the one I was seeing for months). I'm now living in this small town of 45,000 people until at least the month of July. I spent some time with extended family, and learned that my dad is willing to disown his dad if the relationship between his dad and his brother won't clear up. Boundaries! I could show him this subliminal.
I've since spent one week at my new placement, and it's been going great!
- I FINALLY owned up to the fact that I absolutely need to get enough sleep every night to function properly. For me, that number seems to be 8 hours a day. I set a steady bedtime on weekdays for 10pm, waking up at 6am. Since that change, I've had a significant increase in energy at work and after work.
- In the morning (6:05), I go straight to a playground behind the house and do hill sprints, chin-ups, push ups, etc. It helps me feel even more energy, awake, and charged. I listen to audiobooks while doing this, and also while having breakfast and doing other ablations.
- My placement is going kickass; I'm observing most interactions with clients. I had a writing board, and I fix Post-Its to them, writing new terms down when I don't recognize it. I'm writing so much down (new acronyms, terms, types of surgeries, medications, people's name) that I can fill a 1 page summary each day. The font size is 9 and the margins are very small (you could say 'marginal'). This has been impressing my supervisor, and I'm learning quickly. Calling people by their name makes them light up more than a nameless greeting. I walk around at work with a smile on my face.
- Key Sound has been satisfactory; each session is more intense than the last. During Friday's session, I had a series of what you could call very-mini-orgasms (1/10th of a normal one), as I was shuttering while making the sound, and feeling pleasurable sensations all around.
- FaceBuilder is going alright; I always look better than usual after the exercises. Hopefully, I can look like that most of the time.
- The most recent audiobooks I've listened to were 'The Talent Code' and 'The Compound Effect'.
o The Talent Code focuses on deliberate practice, so of course, I am practicing more and more accurately. I'm understanding that things that are difficult to play live are such because I didn't practice them well enough.
o The Compound Effect is about the gradual 0.1% improvement habits you make each day that add up over time - let's say, 3 years - to yield spectacular results. Habits like saving, losing weight, practicing, and so on. It's also big on the idea of tracking a particular metric. I'm considering doing it for guitar and the French language. I pretty quickly came up with a list of little tweaks I can throw into my day to make it 5% more effective. Things like climbing the stairs when first entering my job, speaking to my preceptor exclusively in French, writing down the tempos I can play a certain passage to be able to challenge myself adequately.
- Coming up with solutions for problems very easily; I was considering adding in a French-language related habit, so that I can speak more eloquently. I was bemoaning the idea, since I'm pretty strapped for time in the evening. Then, I realized that I can simply choose to speak in French to bilingual people as much as possible. Or listen to French language material. "But what happens to my audiobooks?!" I wonder, "..Maybe I just listen to French audiobooks". ¨Problem. solved.
- Learning about 15 song lyrics per week. If I keep the habit going for about 2 weeks, and I'll at 60 songs total. I'll stop it shortly thereafter, since I don't even know if I'll get to perform those songs anyways. Better off directly my pMemory skills towards guitar theory, which should be interesting.
- Today was Saturday; I got up at 8, starting working on my day around 9:15, and didn't stop until 5. I jumped back in at 7pm and went until 11pm. I WANTED to do that. Wow! I got a whole lot done.
- I've ACTUALLY cut out Facebook, Youtube, and pointless sites, during week day. I'll admit that I clicked on Sub Talk a couple of times this week.
It's as though my new environment acts as a signal and an opportunity to introduce as many new things as possible. So much more space than my small bachelor apartment, so it's easy to separate my laptop from my bed, and pull out the ironing board, etc.
Long winded, I know. But it's pretty incredible stuff.
Stage 4, Day 23 (but now 22 because I missed a day),
This portion of the stage has been pretty spectacular, in terms of personal development.
I mean, seriously; looking back to the person I am now compared to who I was two weeks ago completely boggles me.
Since my last post, my parents came back the next morning, and we packed the remainder of my apartment, and drove down to the new city. Felt a bit sad leaving, for the sake of my former sexual partner (the one I was seeing for months). I'm now living in this small town of 45,000 people until at least the month of July. I spent some time with extended family, and learned that my dad is willing to disown his dad if the relationship between his dad and his brother won't clear up. Boundaries! I could show him this subliminal.
I've since spent one week at my new placement, and it's been going great!
- I FINALLY owned up to the fact that I absolutely need to get enough sleep every night to function properly. For me, that number seems to be 8 hours a day. I set a steady bedtime on weekdays for 10pm, waking up at 6am. Since that change, I've had a significant increase in energy at work and after work.
- In the morning (6:05), I go straight to a playground behind the house and do hill sprints, chin-ups, push ups, etc. It helps me feel even more energy, awake, and charged. I listen to audiobooks while doing this, and also while having breakfast and doing other ablations.
- My placement is going kickass; I'm observing most interactions with clients. I had a writing board, and I fix Post-Its to them, writing new terms down when I don't recognize it. I'm writing so much down (new acronyms, terms, types of surgeries, medications, people's name) that I can fill a 1 page summary each day. The font size is 9 and the margins are very small (you could say 'marginal'). This has been impressing my supervisor, and I'm learning quickly. Calling people by their name makes them light up more than a nameless greeting. I walk around at work with a smile on my face.
- Key Sound has been satisfactory; each session is more intense than the last. During Friday's session, I had a series of what you could call very-mini-orgasms (1/10th of a normal one), as I was shuttering while making the sound, and feeling pleasurable sensations all around.
- FaceBuilder is going alright; I always look better than usual after the exercises. Hopefully, I can look like that most of the time.
- The most recent audiobooks I've listened to were 'The Talent Code' and 'The Compound Effect'.
o The Talent Code focuses on deliberate practice, so of course, I am practicing more and more accurately. I'm understanding that things that are difficult to play live are such because I didn't practice them well enough.
o The Compound Effect is about the gradual 0.1% improvement habits you make each day that add up over time - let's say, 3 years - to yield spectacular results. Habits like saving, losing weight, practicing, and so on. It's also big on the idea of tracking a particular metric. I'm considering doing it for guitar and the French language. I pretty quickly came up with a list of little tweaks I can throw into my day to make it 5% more effective. Things like climbing the stairs when first entering my job, speaking to my preceptor exclusively in French, writing down the tempos I can play a certain passage to be able to challenge myself adequately.
- Coming up with solutions for problems very easily; I was considering adding in a French-language related habit, so that I can speak more eloquently. I was bemoaning the idea, since I'm pretty strapped for time in the evening. Then, I realized that I can simply choose to speak in French to bilingual people as much as possible. Or listen to French language material. "But what happens to my audiobooks?!" I wonder, "..Maybe I just listen to French audiobooks". ¨Problem. solved.
- Learning about 15 song lyrics per week. If I keep the habit going for about 2 weeks, and I'll at 60 songs total. I'll stop it shortly thereafter, since I don't even know if I'll get to perform those songs anyways. Better off directly my pMemory skills towards guitar theory, which should be interesting.
- Today was Saturday; I got up at 8, starting working on my day around 9:15, and didn't stop until 5. I jumped back in at 7pm and went until 11pm. I WANTED to do that. Wow! I got a whole lot done.
- I've ACTUALLY cut out Facebook, Youtube, and pointless sites, during week day. I'll admit that I clicked on Sub Talk a couple of times this week.
It's as though my new environment acts as a signal and an opportunity to introduce as many new things as possible. So much more space than my small bachelor apartment, so it's easy to separate my laptop from my bed, and pull out the ironing board, etc.
Long winded, I know. But it's pretty incredible stuff.
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