First batch of goals, Day 4-5

The first weekend and as expected was the biggest challenge and a failed one at that, my BaRa (backwards rationalization was that I slept at my girlfriend's home. I have to add the necessary strategic steps required to perform optimally at those circumstances as well.

But at the very least I have to admit that the weekend wasn't a complete waste as I went to the "VL" that compromised by a video on neuroscience and a whole lot of info. I will probably compile a list tomorrow at work so I can get my thoughts in order.

Verdict: Early riser goal (X) Knowledge front (V)

First batch of goals, Day 3

On the early riser front I woke up 7am in the morning with 6 hours of sleep. Truth be told I do feel a bit sleepy but heck only if I sleep more than 9 hours I dont and it usually goes away in the afternoon. I also accomplished my goal of 30 minutes of performing the morning ritual. I want to feel the experiance of getting out of the toasty cinnamon bun phase on colder weather...

While when it comes to educating myself I browsed the internet and came across some TTC - Audio lectures so I now have exactly what I wanted for when I am done with Nick Halls audiobook

First set of goals Day 2

The day started on my girlfriends house where I lacked several things of my morning ritual so I simply forwent the exercise of repeating the ritual in the morning and decided to visualize it during breaks at work... But I believe its worth to mention that simply by hearing my alarm ring I managed to forgo the toasty cinnamon bun mode and get up in a instant! Verdict: I managed to visualize a couple of times the ritual and process of waking up and had my body basically function on its own when I woke up. There is a good chance I wont need a whole month to get this habit down.

On the studying side I got through even more of Nick Hall's stuff and I want to take note of 2 very interesting concepts. First is the "I am glad, I am not..." where you make statements of feeling glad you are not in a worse situation than you currently are in and "Never take a nice vacation" which basically reverses the highlight of the year vacations typically are and makes the rest of the year the highlight. I also read some pages of Pamela Meyer's "Liespotting" which although extremely interesting and potentially awesome I need some training on facial expression and body language recognition and interpretation.

First set of goals Day 1

On my first day of trying to achieve my goals and create a couple new beneficial habits I happened to be quite successful as I managed although it wasn't at the ideal time of 6-7 in the morning to practice my morning ritual 4 times.

Later I got through 1/3 of Nick Hall's audiobook: "I know what to do so why don't I do it.". On the latter I'd say I will have to come back to it a couple of audiobooks later to re-listen to it preferably at a higher speed so I can get through it in less time so I can absorb the principles and practices that have eluded my mind on the firs time I went through the material. Another fairly good idea would be to figure out a way to make on the spot notes of what I hear so I can go back to them at a later date without having to listen through the whole audiobook, but I am withholding this for the 2nd listen through where I will have a more complete idea of the audiobook.

First set of goals

The two basic goals are as I see it the fundamentals of personal development (at least the way my job currently works)

First off is becoming an early riser using the techniques described by Steve Pavlina on here and that is to be able to harness most of my day productively. Ideally I want to have 7.5 or 6 hours of sleep and 16.5 to 18 productive hours (with maybe a nap midday)

Subgoals (100% within my power)

• Practice 30 minutes of waking ritual every day preferably right when I wake up to make the conditions as close to my target as possible. Open eyes, quick stretch, drink glass of water, remove top, go to the washroom and washface and teeth.
• Visualize a couple of times a day the process of the ritual above

The second goal is to spend about 10% of my productive time (at least 1 and a half) hour extending my understanding of the world further which translates into reading science based material or watching documentaries

Subgoals (100% within my power)

• Develop "learning ritual": Ponder for a minute what I know about the subject I am about to indulge into and what I know that the author is trying to convey.
• Listen to audiobooks while commuting
• Watch part of a documentary after morning ritual
• OR read some material after morning ritual
• if the above do not meet the 1.5 hours repeat after returning from work for as long as needed.

Foreword

I recently decided to keep track of my progress on goals on an online place where I can also add my thoughts. So its more of a journal.

I am aiming for development in 3 categories: Health, Wealth and Relationships (pretty much everything) and lately I have decided to "take it slow" by "taking 1 (2) thing a time" and here is where I will track my progress. I believe I wont be making extended posts on the why I made a choice but if you happen to stumble upon this and are interested ask me and I just might respond... no promises though ;)

The goal of the blog is to keep track of my daily progress and thoughts on each goal and its completion