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@Dan Arnautu I don't know how to cook. I'm not a "food cooker" . I'd rather eat food instead. Buuh!

June 11, 2017 - Sunday I've gotten a jolt to really focus on my game project as I feel that it really is in connection with my Life Purpose. I still haven't pinpointed what my Life Purpose really is and I still haven't taken Leo's course but my intuition is telling me that this is something I want to spend part of my life's effort on. What are thou doing in there? Today I spent somewhere around 3-4 hours doing game work. I don't know, I lost track of time, I really should get a stopwatch or something. Decided to spend some time working on a tileset that I will use in the game. Pretty proud of the result but it isn't fully complete yet as I'm still going to be adding more tiles to it. Read some more from the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius. I even took a little bit of notes. Although I must admit that I had a bit of difficulty trying to follow some of the parts of the book. What art thou going to do tomorrow? More game design/coding work. Minimum goal of 2 hours. Desired goal of 3 hours. More art/drawing work. Minimum goal of 1 hour. Read some more, learn some more I'm feeling pretty motivated. Tomorrow will be The Day Jesus Christ Returns!

June 10, 2017 - Saturday Pretty smooth day today, I spent a lot of time coding and now I'm taking a break by playing random indie games I find on the internet. A lot of them are bland but there are some really creative hidden gems out there and I want to find them. Anyway, what did you today, Jimmy? I spent, I think almost 3 hours. doing coding work on my game. Although, the bulk of the time was spent trying to fix this one problem. Pretty annoying but I'm glad I got it done. I did some digital art work on a tileset that will be used in my game project. Although it's not finished so I don't want to post it here yet. Managed to get a little reading done on the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius. A little. . . as in, I haven't made it out of the introduction yet. Didn't find the time to watch a new Music Production-related tutorial yet. `Tomorrow tomorrow. Spend more time coding for my game project. Minimum goal of 1 hour. Do more drawing for my game project. Minimum goal of 1 hour And the other stuff. . . Too tired to do any more work today. That coding problem really bugged me and tired me out, tomorrow I wish to shake hands with Slenderman.

@Jordan wang Wait, why don't just find a way to permanently reduce your stress instead of doing your weird and annoying way of temporarily relieving it? Do you practice meditation or any kind of deep breathing practice? Do you live a simplistic uncomplicated life or a busy distracted life? Difficult but permanent lifestyle changes will always trump short but easy fixes.

June 9, 2017 - Friday As I mentioned yesterday, I wanted to have a bit of a break today so I didn't do as much work as I did yesterday. But I had some work done nonetheless. Well. . . only one drawing. So, not really that much. It's the background of one of the levels of the game. Here's what I got planned for tomorrow. Get back to coding. Hopefully, I could reach a minimum of 2 hours of work Continue drawing more art for my game Actually start reading The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius this time Find the time to watch at least one Music Production-related tutorial Gotta sleep well because tomorrow the police will eat my brains!

June 8, 2017 - Thursday Business as usual today. Because I no longer have much college work, I've had a lot of time to work on my Life Purpose. Although I did go out with my family to go shopping so that did eat up a significant chunk of my time. Still, it was good and I enjoyed it. "Hey Ferb, I know what we're gonna do today" Hmm. . . I forgot how much time I spent working on my game project today. Uhhhmm.. let's just say I spent about more than an hour, I guess. Did some drawing but I didn't finish any so I'm not going to show any progress. Check out a preview of the World Map I made: Got some more reading done. No, not any important books that I need to read. Just this book I read for entertainment. Haven't been able to find the time to watch any Music Tutorial videos "Hey Ferb, I know what we're gonna do tomorrow" I want tomorrow to be a "break day" so I'm going to be working a bit less than I usually do (Optional) Do some more coding work on my game project As always, continue my daily drawing habit (Optional) Find the time to watch a Music Tutorial Video Find the time to start reading Marcus Aurelius's Meditations OK, time to get to bed because tomorrow. . . AUGH! My blanket is trying to strangle me!

June 7, 2017 - Wednesday It's official, I'm graduating by the end of the month. All those years I spent in college to get passing grades have finally paid off. . . . And it feels empty. . . D'oh well!. . . . Time to get back to my Life Purpose. On another note, I am aware that I forgot to write yesterday's entry. What have I doooooonnne??!!!! Spent about 2 hours or so working on my game. (Actually, I can't tell because I sort of lost track of time) Finally finished all the World Map sprites which I have been working on about the same time I started this journal. Finally completed reading "The Art of Computer Game Design by Chris Crawford". I've got my eye on "Meditations by Marcus Aurelius" as my next book to read. I actually did find the time to watch a video on the basics of a Music Vocoder. It was really cool, I wonder why I haven't learned about it until now. What am I going to Doooooo???!!! (tomorrow) Get to work drawing the background of the first area of the game Spend more time coding in my game project. Minimum goal: 2 hours. (Optional) Start reading the 'Meditations of Marcus Aurelius' Get back to watching those Trance Music Tutorial videos. Preferably, multiple of them. Quite the amount of progress I've made over the last week, I can't wait to see how tomorrow will CEASE TO EXIST!!!

JUNE 5, 2017 - Monday Oh man, I'm so close to graduating right now. I just have one last requirement to pass tomorrow. This will really free up a lot of time I can spend pursuing my life purpose. But today, I was still very busy with my college work. Just one more day... Anyway, all I made today was this: Hoping to start getting more Life Purpose stuff done by tomorrow. Are the most recent entries too short? Well don't fret, because tomorrow we all lose our eyeballs!

JUNE 4, 2017 - Sunday Really busy right now. Working on a thesis paper I need to submit by tomorrow. I'm going to make this entry quick. Did not have the time to spend coding. Turned out I really needed more time to finish my college thesis. Hopefully by tomorrow, I'd have a lot more time. Here's the only thing I drew today: Did not get much of anything else done regarding Life Purpose. What I want to do tomorrow. I don't know yet, to be honest. I'll try to decide tomorrow. Am I working too hard or too little? Guess I'll know on tomorrow's Dead Plant Parade!

@Leo Gura Well, I didn't say that he wasn't highly educated or that he avoids education. To me, when he says that he 'refuses to be educated', it's really more of an identity thing, I think. As opposed to other people who try to make an identity out of education or their level of intelligence. Also, I guess I may be wrong about his age. Could have sworn he said he was more than a hundred years old in one video. Don't know if I misheard or if he was being metaphorical or if he was talking about a guy who was more than hundred years old, because he tells a lot of stories and stuff. P.S. I wouldn't be surprised if he did reach over a hundred years old, though.

@Baul Sadghuru openly claims that he has refused to become educated in life. He is now a 100+ year old yogi and one of the wisest men to live in the 21st century.

JUNE 3, 2017 - Saturday My busy college work schedule is motivated by fear.This is not how I want to live. That's why I started this journal. What I Dog Dang done today: Got more coding work done. About an hours worth of work successfully completed. I drew some flowing slime for my game's World Map. Took me about half an hour. Didn't get much of anything else done. Not even reading. Oh well. . . What to do, oh! What to do tomorrow: More coding! More coding! Minimum of 30 mins...still got a lot of college work to do tomorrow. Going to draw something really small tomorrow because I'm feeling like I want to give myself more time get my college stuff done Maybe finally watch the videos from that Trance Music Tutorial. or maybe not. Continue reading "The Art of Computer Game Design by Chris Crawford", hopefully Busy day tomorrow, I can sense it. It's gonna be Balloon Day tomorrow and I gotta get prepared!

Still, nothing inherently wrong with video games, per se. I view as an extra life accessory, not too much of a hindrance as long as your aware and careful. I think of personal development as improving your car's performance, whereas all entertainment and material success and possessions are just fancy accessories to the car. Nothing wrong with some accessories, a paint job here, some decals there, a little fuzzy dice on the driver mirror. The trick is to not obsess too much about how your car looks, because what's really important is if it drives well and gets you places.

@Scarwolf I quit spending too much time playing video games by becoming a game dev, ironically.

JUNE 2, 2017 - Friday Man, I'm exhausted. Did so much walking from place to place today because of some stuff I had to deal with. Interestingly though, at one point, while waiting for somebody, I decided to wander off and lie at an old bench under a tree and just lay there staring at the sky. It was quite relaxing actually and I ended up contemplating a bit and asking what the purpose of life really is about. Not life purpose, the purpose of life... Anyway. Stuff I got done today Got 2 hours of coding work today on my game project. I only wanted 1 hour minimum because I had a lot of other stuff to do but I ended up getting really focused in my work. Here's what I done drew today. Took me about an hour and 20 minutes. Didn't manage to watch those videos I mentioned yesterday (again) Actually got a bit of reading done. Nearly finished with "The Art of Computer Game Design by Chris Crawford" What I gotz to do tomorrow: (I'm gonna be really busy with college work tomorrow so I'm going to lower my standards a bit) Do more game project coding. A minimum goal of half an hour. Draw the 'Slime Canal' part of the World Map of my game (Optional) Watch those videos I wanted to watch yesterday. If I can't, then try to do it tomorrow again. Read more from "The Art of Computer Game Design by Chris Crawford" After all that has happened today, I really hope that tomorrow, zzzzzzzzzzzzzZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzZZZ!

JUNE 1, 2017 - Thursday *sigh* Defense got moved to Monday. And I got so worked up and sleep deprived last night. Oh well, at least I got some stuff I wanted to do done today. Not all of it but still good work. I was mostly busy on college work today. Here's the stuff I got done and also stuff I wasn't able to do: Spent about an hour coding my game project. The session could have been more efficient but I got good work done. Didn't draw the Land/Ground part of my game's World Map like I mentioned yesterday. I just didn't feel like I wanted to. Instead, I decided I was gonna do some sketching practice instead. Check it, drew a couple of perspective-based practice drawings: Credit for the idea goes to Barrington Barber with his book, "The Fundamentals of Drawing" Did not spend the time to watch the videos I mentioned in my goals yesterday. Hopefully I can by tomorrow. Didn't spend any time to read. Sucks. What to do, oh, what to do for tomorrow? Spend more time coding my game, obviously. One hour minimum Watch the video I missed for today Read, gotta goddamn read. Do the drawing that I originally wanted for today. What a busy day, I have this gut feeling that tomorrow, smartphones will gain sentience and take over the world! (actually, they may already have done so. what with the mass distraction and what not.)

MAY 31, 2017 Damn, really really busy today. I've got a thesis defense tomorrow and I have not yet done preparing for it yet. It's 8:30 pm and I'm getting sleepy. I really hope I finish this soon so I can have what may be a really relaxing sleep especially compared to how I feel right now. I had so much to do today that I only managed to accomplish half of the Life Purpose goals I set up for myself yesterday. But anyway, here's an overall report on what I got done and also what I didn't get done. Wasn't able to work on my game at all, at least not coding wise I was still able to spend the time to build that space station I mentioned yesterday. Took me just well over an hour to make. Still was able to get a good amount of reading done from 'The Art of Computer Game Design by Chris Crawford' Was not able to find the time to watch those video tutorials I wanted to yesterday Fortunately, after my defense, there isn't going to be much non-Life Purpose workload left so I'll be more likely to accomplish what I've got planned for tomorrow. Which is... Spend that 1 hour (or more) I wanted coding more on my game project Draw the Land part of the world map sprites. It's going to take a bit longer than the other buildings because it's more complex Watch those tutorials I wanted to watch today but wasn't able to Read more! Read more! It's good. Man, I really hope that tomorrow, Bill Gates gets hexed by peeing on a leprechaun.

When you start researching a bit on spiritual traditions or listen to some spiritual teachers, you may come across terms that you may have never heard before. I myself don't know a lot because I haven't studied a lot so I thought it'd be nice if we could enumerate various spiritual terms that will help broaden our collective spiritual vocabulary. I'll start... Mukti = Spiritual Liberation Sadhana = Daily Spiritual Practice Pranayama = the formal practice of controlling the breath, which is the source of our prana, or vital life force Maya = The power, as a God, to create illusion. Trataka = A gazing meditation also known as 'Yogic Gazing'

MAY 30, 2017 Another really busy day, barely had time to take any kind of nap today. I usually don't take naps but I've been forcing myself recently to try to combat my workaholism issue. But this journal ain't about workaholism so I'm not going to say more about that.| These are the things I managed to accomplish today: Spent about an hour and a half working on my game project. One of the things I worked on was an algorithm that allows me to make my own custom rotation animation. Unfortunately, it mostly works but acts strange sometimes so it's still technically broken. Gotta fix that some other time. Finished drawing a new base sprite for one of the buildings in the World Map of my game. It still needs a bit more detail, though. Took me about 45 minutes Finished watching the 3rd video on a free Trance Music Production course. Read about 4 more pages into "Art of Computer Game Design by Chris Crawford". What I plan to accomplish for tomorrow: Spend as much time working on my game as possible (Minimum: 1 hour) Draw another digital sprite of one of the buildings of my World Map project. Preferably the floating Space Station. Watch the 4th tutorial on the Trance Music Production Course. Read as much as I can from "Art of Computer Game Design by Chris Crawford". Preferably, the first thing I do when I wake up in the morning. (Optional) Gather information on what the hell a "Vocoder" is. That's my report for tonight. I should really remember that tomorrow, I assassinate President Trump!

@Anirban657 If I told you everything you think you know is wrong and that all your opinions are irrational and I dispute them one by one. . . and you don't get pissy about it, then you're open minded.

MAY 29, 2017 Today was a tough day. Had to deal with some stressful situations in college regarding my upcoming thesis defense. Problems with scheduling it, lack of feedback from my adviser, bla bla bla Anyway, that has nothing to do with my life purpose but it has become a huge distraction for me that I've been working to get rid ever since I started doing personal development. Anyway, these are the things I managed to accomplish today: Spent about 3 hours total coding my current game project, KzzzZZZzzT! I mostly worked on algorithms that make certain animations in the World Map part of the game. Pretty neat stuff, can't wait to show it off. I occasionally spent a few minutes reading an e-book on my phone about game design "Art of Computer Game Design by Chris Crawford" Spent about half hour or so working on a new sprite for the game that will be used in the World Map as well. This is one of the buildings of the World Map of the game. Here is a sketch I made of what I want the whole thing to look like: Finally, I watched a couple of videos from a free course on how to make trance music, the first one was about the drum loop and the second was about the bassline. I still haven't absorbed everything from the two videos because electronic music production is such a complex field even from the basics. However, I took notes on what I learned What I plan to accomplish for tomorrow: Spend as much time coding as possible Draw another digital sprite of one of the World Map buildings Watch the 3rd tutorial on the Trance Music course Continue reading more from "Art of Computer Game Design by Chris Crawford". Preferably, the first thing I do when I wake up in the morning. That's the plan, shouldn't forget that this is more important than chocolate.

@Afonso Now you know...

Good work!

Meditation does not equal "just relaxation", it's far far deeper than that. I've once met a guy who really hated my suggestion of starting a meditation habit instead of spending time playing video games because he equated playing a relaxing RPG game with meditation. I could tell just how arrogant and undisciplined his mind was just by his volatile reaction, a tell-tale sign of lack of meditation. It's complete nonsense! Of course meditation can feel relaxing but a lot of the time, you feel like banging your head against a wall.

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