Getting On The Track

[Eryk]

Hopefully, writing this journal will help me get some clarity on my life.

I've noticed that time passes really fast while I'm not getting enough stuff done. I'm drowning too deep in time-wasting activities such as playing video games and watching useless youtube videos. Sometimes I'm even impressed by how good I am at wasting time.

Good part is that I'm on a good way to establish meditation habit (almost 50 days of daily meditation done) + I'm working out and keeping decent diet consistently since like 3 weeks.

I really want to stop lazing and improve the quality of my life so there are some things I want to focus on this summer :

• Establishing meditation habit,
• Improving my posture,
• Restoring clear vision,
• Working out consistently,
• Keeping a decent diet,
• Progressing in finding my purpose,
• Reading and studying self-help books,

Therefore I commit myself to :

• Meditating daily for at least 20 minutes,
• Changing my sitting, standing, walking and sleeping habits and also exercising on daily basis,
• Maintaining daily routine for improving vision + improving my vision habits,
• At least once in three days, at least three times a week,
• Keeping a decent diet ,
• Properly  working with ULPC everyday,
• Spending at least 30 minutes with a book everyday.

 

• Spending maximally 2 hours a day on distractions.
• Monitoring my results and consistently writing them here,

Let's go boy!

[Eryk]

19/07/2017

 

Posture improving habits and exercises

Meditation 20 min

Working out

Diet

Restricting distractions to 120 min

Vision improving

Working with ULPC

Studying "Mastery"

 

Overall score 68/80

Not bad, I'm quite satisfied with today results even though I could take over the world with amount of free time I had today. Maybe if I had less free time available I'd become more efficient (hopefully).

I should focus more on working with course so I can finally pass this Values Assessment on which I'm being stuck for months...

 

 

 

Edited July 19, 2017 by Eryk

[Eryk]

20/07/2017

Posture improving habits and exercises - too much sitting, rest was fine

Meditation 20 min

Working out

Diet

Restricting distractions to 120 min - failed terribly, got on youtube streak

Vision improving - ignoring 20/20/20 rule after some time, too much time spent in front of screen

Working with ULPC - not much work done, but finally I progressed

Studying "Mastery"

 

Overall 62/80 ~ 77%

 

Wasted a lot of time today.

Thought of useful concept - dividing learning book on 3 stages : reading > studying > implementing

Edited July 22, 2017 by Eryk
i suck at math

[Eryk]

21/07/2017

I had a lil contemplation on caring about what other people think. One's opinion can be either true or not true. If it's true then I'm willing to accept that and work on it if necessary. If it's not true then It shouldn't bother me, the only thing I might do is to help with getting clarity on it.

For example - If someone says that my mother is a bitch, then I don't give a shit. I might tell him that she is not.

Posture improving habits and exercises

Meditation 20 min

Diet

Restricting distractions to 120 min

Vision improving

Working with ULPC

Studying "Mastery"

48/70 ~ 68%

120 minutes is too much, I'm setting limit to 60 min, if it won't work I'll quit gaming and youtube (at least for a few months)

Edited July 22, 2017 by Eryk
update

[Eryk]

22/07/2017

Posture improving habits and exercises

Meditation 20 min

Diet - eating grilled food at late evening

Work out

Restricting distractions to 60 min - didn't manage to respect this limit, but i wasted much less time than yesterday, 60 minutes does not make that that lazy as 120 minutes.

Vision improving

Working with ULPC

Studying "Mastery"

 

54/80 ~~ 67%

More specific tasks for tomorrow :

- Summarize at least 3 chapters of "Mastery".

- Check value list, is everything tangible enough? Everything feels authentic?

- Finish Values Assessment Pass #7,

- Look for job offers,

- Clean your room, do some more houseworks if necessary.

Edited July 23, 2017 by Eryk

[Eryk]

23/07/2017

Fail. Only meditation done.

Moving tasks on tomorrow.

[Eryk]

24/07/2017

Complete fail

Did not meditate

Edited July 25, 2017 by Eryk

[Eryk]

25/07/2017

Daily minimum:

- 30 min of ulpc,

- meditation,

- proper diet,

Also take care of eyesight and posture.

After finishing gothic 3 I'm going to do No Distractions Challange. Something like this : no PC, no internet, no tv and so on. For 30 days. This will let me focus on productive stuff.

 

[DawnOfReality]

So? How was your 30 days challenge? I am in a very similar situation and oddly enough we have the same way of approching the problem. I am curious to see how it is going for you. 

Cheers

[Eryk]

@DawnOfReality complete fail,  I by far got off from track. 

About this challenge thing, I'm not sure if I'll be doing something like this again. What I'm sure is that I'm minimizing entertaiment in my life .I recommend you watching this vid, it got my ass motivated!

PS: thanks for reminding me of this journal, I might start  writing it again.

Edited November 1, 2017 by Eryk