Raphael

That's so true. I got demonized, criticized and insulted a lot in the past by mostly low stage orange/blue people for asking questions and sharing different ideas.

@28 cm unbuffed Do people assume that you're smart by barely knowing you or just by looking at you?

15 April 2020 Wake Up Time: 05:38 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM) In Bed Time: 10:25 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM) Work Sessions: No Work For Today Total Work Hours: 0 hours (objective at least 6 hours) Total Reading Time: 0 minutes (objective 30 minutes - 1 hour)

@Surfingthewave Thank you, I love you too. And I love everyone in this community and the entire universe too

14 April 2020 Wake Up Time: 07:00 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM) In Bed Time: 09:28 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM) Work Sessions: 9:20 AM - 10:17 AM: I reported notes from a book to my commonplace book. The neighbors started to play some loud music outside, so I closed the windows and completely locked myself in the room. I was focused. Work Duration: 53 minutes 10:35 AM - 11:48 AM: I did some paperwork. Work Duration: 1 hour 13 minutes Deep Work Sessions: 12:19 AM - 01:14 PM: I did some research on an algorithm implementation. I think I found a solution. Deep Work Duration: 55 minutes 05:10 PM - 06:00 PM: I did some coding and realized that the research that I did previously was unnecessary. I had some trouble with the new OS and was not highly focused. Deep Work Duration: 50 minutes I wasn't highly productive today. Some past traumas came back to my mind and I was a little depressed because of this. I also had performance issues with my new operating system that frustrated me a lot, I will have to change again. Total Work Duration: 3 hours 51 minutes, including 1 hour 45 minutes of Deep Work (objective at least 6 hours) Total Reading Time: 30 minutes (objective 30 minutes - 1 hour)

13 April 2020 Wake Up Time: 06:00 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM) In Bed Time: 09:30 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM) Work Sessions: 10:02 AM - 1:00 PM: I configured my new work environment. I quickly switched between tasks. Work Duration: 2 hours 58 minutes 02:40 PM - 02:56 PM: I tried to fix an issue with my AWS account, but didn't succeed. I will have a more detailed look tomorrow. Work Duration: 16 minutes Deep Work Sessions: 04:10 PM - 06:09 PM: I worked on an HTML view, I wrote its content in English and did the French translation. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 59 minutes Getting started in the morning was a little difficult today. I was quite lazy and delayed my work, but I still managed to work for 5 hours 13 minutes which is quite close to my daily objective. Total Work Duration: 5 hours 13 minutes, including 1 hour 59 minutes of Deep Work (objective at least 6 hours) Total Reading Time: 47 minutes (objective 30 minutes - 1 hour)

Distinguishing Deep Work Vs Other Work I spend a lot of time today setting up and configuring my new environment and doing some utility tasks. I quickly switched between many tasks and one thing that's sure is that all of this is not deep work and doesn't enter in this journal objective, however, that's still work. Thereby, I want to reframe my objective because work can include maintenance stuff too. The new objective of this journal is to work for at least 6 hours per day / 30 hours per week, it includes deep work and other kinds of work like maintenance stuff, networking, etc. I will now distinguish deep work and other kinds of work in my summaries.

12 April 2020 Wake Up Time: 07:00 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM) In Bed Time: 09:37 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM) Deep Work Sessions: No Deep Work Today Total Deep Work Duration: 0 minutes (objective 0 minutes) Total Reading Time: 0 minutes (objective 0 minutes)

@Vipassana This is highly impressive and you are only 20. I'm 23 and I'm trying to push to 2 hours, but I start to have troubles after 1h 30. Did people in your family introduce you to meditation? Where did you learn about it? You will probably outgrow Leo and other masters pretty fast!

11 April 2020 Wake Up Time: 6:00 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM) In Bed Time: 10:00 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM) Deep Work Sessions: 09:00 AM - 10:08 AM: Good session, I continued on the initialization of the project. I still often have random thoughts in the back of my mind while working. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 10:24 AM - 12:26 AM: I created the application routes skeleton. I had some random thoughts unrelated to the project. Deep Work Duration: 2 hours 2 minutes 01:35 PM - 04:13 PM: I did a lot of stuff and was focused. Deep Work Duration: 2 hours 38 minutes 04:38 PM - 06:17 PM: I completed the project initialization. It took more time than excepted and I was completely drained at the end. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 39 minutes I worked a lot today and I have been highly productive. I was a little exhausted at the end of the day, but I'm very satisfied with my results. Total Deep Work Duration: 7 hours 27 minutes (objective at least 6 hours) Total Reading Time: 0 minutes (objective 30 minutes - 1 hour)

We should have an appreciation thread for God/Us too By appreciating others, we appreciate ourselves

@Cykaaaa Thank you

10 April 2020 Wake Up Time: 6:45 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM) In Bed Time: 9:30 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM) Deep Work Sessions: 01:48 PM - 03:20 PM: I did the work, but wasn't highly focused because of negative thoughts caused by my inability to deal with external my environment. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 38 minutes 04:04 PM - 05:17 PM: I was more focused, but still feeling a little sad. I did some project planning and started to initialize the new project. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 13 minutes I slacked off today, I woke up late because I didn't sleep well and I also got lazy because of that. The negative environment didn't help me either. Total Deep Work Duration: 2 hours 51 minutes (objective at least 6 hours) Total Reading Time: 40 minutes (objective 30 minutes - 1 hour)

9 April 2020 Wake Up Time: 6:00 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM) In Bed Time: 9:46 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM) Deep Work Sessions: 8:59 AM - 10:24 AM: I moved forward in the work. I was a little agitated because of all the outside noise and movement. I got interrupted a few times. I tried to go too fast. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 25 minutes 10:41 AM - 11:30 AM: Good session. Deep Work Duration: 49 minutes 11:40 AM - 12:30 AM: Good session. Deep Work Duration: 50 minutes 1:36 PM - 3:02 PM: Good session. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 26 minutes 3:15 PM - 4:49 PM: Good session. I read an SEO report and ended up with a little of coding. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 34 minutes I noticed that I'm often afraid of being unproductive. I stress out because of that and I feel it in my abdomen where I have some burning feelings and agitations. I also often have some background thoughts noises, they are not strong, but they are here when I work, they are completely random (often negative) thoughts. I need to find a solution to improve my focus and reduce my mind noises, I think positive affirmations and more deep work practice will help. Total Deep Work Duration: 6 hours 04 minutes (objective at least 6 hours) Total Reading Time: 37 minutes (objective 30 minutes - 1 hour)

8 April 2020 Wake Up Time: 6:00 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM) In Bed Time: 10:10 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM) Deep Work Sessions: No Deep Work Today Total Deep Work Duration: 0 minutes (objective 0 minutes) Total Reading Time: 30 minutes (objective 30 minutes - 1 hour)

@RendHeaven I understand and see the problem with my questions, thank you. It seems like your much more yellow than me.

7 April 2020 Wake Up Time: 6:00 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM) In Bed Time: 9:40 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM) Deep Work Sessions: 8:42 AM - 9:44 AM: I did some programming and read some documentation. I felt the urge to distract myself at some moments but bring the focus back on the work. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 10:10 AM - 11:27 AM: I stay focused most of the time, but got distracted by my depressed grandma who started to cry. I got some negative thoughts and then choose to completely lock myself in the room to avoid noises and negative influences. I tried to work a little too fast. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 17 minutes 11:40 AM - 12:20 AM: I had some parasite thoughts. I still tried to work too fast, I noticed that I lost at least 1 hour in the previous session that could have been avoided by just slowing down and focusing my attention on an element. Deep Work Duration: 40 minutes 1:35 PM - 4:02 PM: Good session. I was focused but had trouble solving the problem. I had a few negative thoughts. Deep Work Duration: 2 hours 27 minutes 4:18 PM - 5:28 PM: I didn't deep worked a lot as I worked on multiple tasks and was communicating with a client. I shift between Skype communication, Wordpress support, and a little of programming. I maybe did only 30 minutes of deep work. Deep Work Duration: 30 minutes I worked more than I expected today, but I almost did 6 hours of deep work. It was easier than I expected. Total Deep Work Duration: 5 hours 56 minutes (objective at least 6 hours) Total Reading Time: 33 minutes (objective 30 minutes - 1 hour)

Yes, that's definitely its most defining characteristic. Previous stages can understand relativism of point of view but at a very shallow level and that's why they are reactive against differences. Stage yellow understands that everything is relative and it makes him nonreactive because he doesn't consider that something is right or wrong anymore. But yellow also understand that he is living in a society, that this society is evolving, that he is human and that the quality of his life depends on the level of development of its environment. So yellow is concerned to help society move up the spiral while knowing at the same time that it doesn't matter at all. Here's some other questions: Why are big corporations important? Why do we need individualism and independent thinking? Is eating meat bad? (The vegan extremist will be very reactive) What's more important: hard work or relaxation and enjoying life? Are we all equals? Green will probably have some nuances to the above questions, but yellow will go much deeper.

Who is a better human being: Gandhi or Hitler?

6 April 2020 Wake Up Time: 6:50 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM) In Bed Time: 9:30 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM) Deep Work Sessions: 3:10 PM - 4:10 PM: I did some code documentation, created a pull request, and merged it. They were a lot of noises outside that distracted me. I stayed focused as much as possible but was a little agitated. I wasn't in a flow state. Total Deep Work Hours: 1 hour (objective at least 6 hours) Total Reading Time: 37 minutes (objective 30 minutes - 1 hour)

Eliminating Mobile Noises I had my first smartphone three years ago. Before that, I was only using a simple Nokia phone with no internet on it, so I was more protected from all the distractions compared to other people. However, when this phone died I got my first smartphone and I quickly experienced how dangerous smartphones are for the mind. They are literally ADHD creating machines as they bombard us non-stop with notification and all the entertainment that we want so that our mind stays busy all day, which is dangerous because our brains need empty space in order to recover and process new information. So I installed various apps & games that robbed me of my concentration, I would use them more and more and the quality of my work would decrease more and more until I finally got sick of it. Two months ago I installed StayFocused on my phone and it was one of my best decisions ever. I chose the paid version because it had features that would allow me to completely block the toxic usage of my phone. I take the decision to block almost everything: Chrome, Firefox, Facebook, Youtube, many games, etc. and only kept a few communication apps like Skype, WhatApps, and GMail. This is far enough and there is really no need to watch videos, go on social media, play video games 24/7, all of this is bullshit and very dangerous. However, I still had one problem which was that I would continue to install new apps in order to fill my neediness. To counter this issue I take another hard decision and choose to block the Play Store so that I cannot install any new app on my phone. I activated the strict mode on StayFocused, I cannot unblock the blocked apps and I cannot uninstall StayFocused. All the distracting stuff is blocked until next year. The only way to revert this is to completely reset my phone, but I don't want to do this, I'm too lazy. I think that the guys behind StayFocused or other similar apps should receive more praise because they are saving many lives from ADHD.

Green feminist evolving to stage Yellow

There's Always Tomorrow - Ralph Smart (Infinite Waters)

In a company where a team is too afraid of reveling mistakes to its boss because of his reaction. That's a highly stage blue fear-based reaction that penalizes the entire project in the long run.

Yes. I have two dogs, one is more selfish than the other one. When I play with the other one the first one gets jealous and puts himself in front of my face so that I can play with him. However, I think that it's impossible for an animal to get rid of its ego because animals are not as evolves as humans and because most of them are dealing with basic survival needs every day.