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My bout of distractions continued during last week as well. I was not as focused on my goals as I should have been. On the upside though, I had plenty of fun mainly following cricket and politics in India.
Individual vision
To lead a life of learning and doing.
Individual Goals
- Be healthier. Exercise regularly and have a healthy diet.
- Be a better analytic problem solver; I want to improve in mathematics and software development.
- Find a way to sustain such a lifestyle.
Accountability
- Alas, I only exercised on 1/7 days! :-(
- Made significant progress with C++11 - I have covered almost half of The C++ Programming Language, 4th Edition.
Actions this week
- Bounce back from the lull slowly but steadily.
- Make further progress with C++11.
- Get back on track with the university mathematics program.
- Exercise more often than in the past two weeks.
- Journal my progress regularly.
- Start reviewing the year 2013 and make plans for the coming year.
Help needed
I often find it hard to keep focus on my currently identified set of goals. This has cost me dearly over the past half a decade or so. I have done fairly well financially, but looking back, I can't identify any cumulative skills or expertise that I have gained. At one time or the other, I have spent time on Indian philosophy, natural sciences, Mathematics, programming, understanding developmental issues in India, etc. My set of interests remain the same, but they keep cycling between them in terms of priority. At one time I am focusing on mathematics, and at other times, on politics. Had I stuck with any one thing, I would have acquired at least a basic level of expertise in that area.
Any suggestions on how to maintain focus would be very helpful!
Individual Vision
- Be proud of how I spend my time and energy
Individual Goals
Be fit physically
- Weight less than 80kg
- ~~Get my resting heart rate below 70bpm~~ DONE
- Get my waist circumference below 90cm
Be fit mentally
- Learn to play a music instrument
- ~~Increase my meditation sessions to 15 minutes~~ DONE
- Increase my journaling sessions to 3 times a week
Accountability
I've been on the beach and at a music festival so not much productivity.
Exercise: 0 gym days but lots of walking and swimming so good
Meditation: 0 days. I thought I could meditate a couple of days but it was either too noisy or I was too tired to do it. No big deal.
Read every day: 3/3 days. I didn't read at all at the music festival.
Journaling: 2/2 days. Travel journal mostly.
Fitbit on green: 4/7 days, but during the music festival I've walked more than 20.000 steps each day so very good.
Eat below my calorie limit: 0/7 days. My phone battery died during the music festival so I didn't log any food those days but my poor food choices and high alcohol comsumption makes it pretty clear I didn't reach my calorie goals.
Actions this week
I'm focusing on exercise and diet this week; I need to get back on track. After that I'll increase some of the other habits.
Exercise: 4 days
Meditation: 3 days
Read every day: 3 days
Journaling: 2 days
Fitbit on green: 7 days
Eat below my calorie limit: 7 days
Unplanned wins
No unplanned wins this week
Help Needed
Not yet
Individual Vision
- Be proud of how I spend my time and energy
Individual Goals
Be fit physically
- Weight less than 80kg
- ~~Get my resting heart rate below 70bpm~~ DONE
- Get my waist circumference below 90cm
Be fit mentally
- Learn to play a music instrument
- ~~Increase my meditation sessions to 15 minutes~~ DONE
- Increase my journaling sessions to 3 times a week
Accountability
I was doing well until the middle of the week, then everything went wrong :(
Exercise: 3/4 days.
Meditation: 2/5 days.
Read every day: 5/5 days
Journaling: 2/2 days
Fitbit on green: 4/7 days.
Eat below my calorie limit: 2/7 days. VERY BAD
Actions this week
I'm on holiday so habits are different this week
Exercise: 0 days
Meditation: 3 days
Read every day: 3 days
Journaling: 2 days
Fitbit on green: 7 days
Eat below my calorie limit: 7 days
Unplanned wins
No unplanned wins this week
Help Needed
Not yet
Individual Vision
- Be proud of how I spend my time and energy
Individual Goals
Be fit physically
- Weight less than 80kg
- Get my resting heart rate below 70bpm
- Get my waist circumference below 90cm
Be fit mentally
- Learn to play a music instrument
- Increase my meditation sessions to 15 minutes
- Increase my journaling sessions to 3 times a week
Accountability
I reached some of my goals (weight below 80kg and rest heart rate below 70bpm) but I want to wait for a week before calling it accomplished. I ate a lot of trash this week so I set my weight back.
Exercise: 5/3 days
Meditation: 3/5 days (Still needs improvement)
Fitbit on green: 6/7 days (great week!)
Journaling: 1/2 days
Read every day: 3/7 days (I got addicted to the new Ace Attorney game on the iPhone so I play it instead of read)
Actions this week
Standard week
Exercise: 3 days
Meditation: 5 days
Fitbit on green: 7 days
Journaling: 2 days
Read every day: 7 days
Unplanned wins
No uplanned wins this week
Help Needed
Not yet
Individual Vision
- Be proud of how I spend my time and energy
Individual Goals
Be fit physically
- Weight less than 80kg
- ~~Get my resting heart rate below 70bpm~~ DONE
- Get my waist circumference below 90cm
Be fit mentally
- Learn to play a music instrument
- ~~Increase my meditation sessions to 15 minutes~~ DONE
- Increase my journaling sessions to 3 times a week
Accountability
This week I'm paying the price of being spontaneous! A friend invited me to a music festival this weekend so I altered all my productivity plans from Thurdsay to Sunday.
Exercise: 2/3 days
Meditation: 5/7 days
Fitbit on green: 3/7 days (As usual, the weekly average is good)
Journaling: 2/2 days
Read every day: 7/7 days
Eat below my calorie limit: 1/7 days. This is awful!
Review my budget: 2/2 days
Actions this week
Exercise: 3 days
Meditation: 7 days
Fitbit on green: 7 days
Journaling: 2 days
Read every day: 7 days
Eat below my calorie limit: 7 days
Review my budget: 2 days
Unplanned wins
No unplanned wins this week
Help Needed
Not yet
Individual Vision
- Be proud of how I spend my time and energy
Individual Goals
Be fit physically
- Weight less than 80kg
- ~~Get my resting heart rate below 70bpm~~ DONE
- Get my waist circumference below 90cm
Be fit mentally
- Learn to play a music instrument
- ~~Increase my meditation sessions to 15 minutes~~ DONE
- Increase my journaling sessions to 3 times a week
Accountability
I've started implementing morning and evening rituals during the work week, that's why my meditation, journaling and reading are all on track. Now let's fix the gym and the calories!
Meditate 5/5 days
Journaling 5/2 days
Gym 1/4 days
Fitbit on green 3/7 days
Eat below calorie limit 3/7 days
Read 6/5 days
Actions this week
Meditate 5 days
Journaling 5 days
Gym 3 days
Fitbit on green 7 days
Eat below calorie limit 7 days
Read 7 days
Unplanned wins
Not this week
Help Needed
Not yet
Individual Vision
- Be proud of how I spend my time and energy
Individual Goals
Be fit physically
- Weight less than 80kg
- ~~Get my resting heart rate below 70bpm~~ DONE
- Get my waist circumference below 90cm
Be fit mentally
- Learn to play a music instrument
- ~~Increase my meditation sessions to 15 minutes~~ DONE
- Increase my journaling sessions to 3 times a week
Accountability
Last week I said I'd be focusing on exercise and diet. This week I've achieved all the milestones except the exercise and diet ones. I'm weird.
Meditate 3/3
Gym 2/4
Journaling 2/2
Fitbit on green 2/7
Eat below calorie limit 4/7
Read 6/3
Actions this week
I'm focusing on exercise and diet this week again, but after last week success I'm increasing the frequency for the rest of the habits
Meditate 5 days
Gym 4 days
Journaling 2 days
Fitbit on green 7 days
Eat below calorie limit 7 days
Read 5 days
Unplanned wins
I have upgraded my task management system. I use a plain text system with a daily Python script to archive old tasks and manage recurrence. I've added some additional logic to allow more customization and a new functionality to manage habits, including the automatic generation of the 'Accountability' section of this post :)
After listening to this podcast episode I'm planning to turn most of my habits into rituals. Let's see how it goes!
Help Needed
Not yet
Individual Vision
- Be proud of how I spend my time and energy
Individual Goals
Be fit physically
- Weight less than 80kg
- ~~Get my resting heart rate below 70bpm~~ DONE
- Get my waist circumference below 90cm
Be fit mentally
- Learn to play a music instrument
- ~~Increase my meditation sessions to 15 minutes~~ DONE
- Increase my journaling sessions to 3 times a week
Accountability
Not bad, not good either.
Exercise: 2/4 days. I got a fever on Tuesday and am still coughing.
Meditation: 2/3 days.
Read every day: 3/3 days.
Journaling: 0/2 days.
Fitbit on green: 4/7 days.
Eat below my calorie limit: 5/7 days.
Actions this week
I'm focusing on exercise and diet this week again. I'm pretty close to my first weight goal (less than 80) and I'd love to cross that one out.
Exercise: 4 days
Meditation: 3 days
Read every day: 3 days
Journaling: 2 days
Fitbit on green: 7 days
Eat below my calorie limit: 7 days
Unplanned wins
No unplanned wins this week
Help Needed
Not yet
Individual Vision
- Be proud of how I spend my time and energy
Individual Goals
Be fit physically
- Weight less than 80kg
- ~~Get my resting heart rate below 70bpm~~ DONE
- Get my waist circumference below 90cm
Be fit mentally
- Learn to play a music instrument
- ~~Increase my meditation sessions to 15 minutes~~ DONE
- Increase my journaling sessions to 3 times a week
Accountability
Pretty decent week
Exercise: 3/4 days. Too much DOMS
Meditation: 4/3 days.
Read every day: 4/3 days.
Journaling: 1/2 days.
Fitbit on green: 2/7 days. I haven't been very active these days :S
Eat below my calorie limit: 6/7 days.
Actions this week
I'm focusing on exercise and diet this week again
Exercise: 4 days
Meditation: 3 days
Read every day: 3 days
Journaling: 2 days
Fitbit on green: 7 days
Eat below my calorie limit: 7 days
Unplanned wins
No unplanned wins this week
Help Needed
Not yet
Individual Vision
- Be proud of how I spend my time and energy
Individual Goals
Be fit physically
- Weight less than 80kg
- ~~Get my resting heart rate below 70bpm~~ DONE
- Get my waist circumference below 90cm
Be fit mentally
- Learn to play a music instrument
- ~~Increase my meditation sessions to 15 minutes~~ DONE
- Increase my journaling sessions to 3 times a week
Accountability
Not bad for first week after holidays but it could be better
Exercise: 3/4 days. Too much DOMs to achieve more :(
Meditation: 4/5 days. Not great but pretty good
Fitbit on green: 3/7 days. Not good.
Journaling: 2/2 days
Read every day: 5/5 days
Eat below my calorie limit: 3/7 days. BAD
Review my budget: 2/2 days
Actions this week
I'm removing the budget habit (I already check it really often) and reordered the rest
Exercise: 4 days
Meditation: 5 days
Read every day: 5 days
Journaling: 2 days
Fitbit on green: 7 days
Eat below my calorie limit: 7 days
Unplanned wins
No unplanned wins this week
Help Needed
Not yet
Individual Vision
- Be proud of how I spend my time and energy
Individual Goals
Be fit physically
- Weight less than 80kg
- ~~Get my resting heart rate below 70bpm~~ DONE
- Get my waist circumference below 90cm
Be fit mentally
- Learn to play a music instrument
- ~~Increase my meditation sessions to 15 minutes~~ DONE
- Increase my journaling sessions to 3 times a week
Accountability
Exercise: 0 gym days but some walking and swimming
Meditation: 0/5 days. I'm getting back to it this week
Fitbit on green: 3/7 days. I've used this week to basically rest
Journaling: 4/2 days
Read every day: 7/5 days
Eat below my calorie limit: 2/5 days. Too much good food!
Review my budget: 0/0 days
Actions this week
Second week away from home.
Exercise: 4 days (back to the gym! )
Meditation: 5 days
Fitbit on green: 7 days
Journaling: 2 days
Read every day: 5 days
Eat below my calorie limit: 7 days
Review my budget: 2 days
Unplanned wins
No unplanned wins this week
Help Needed
Not yet
Individual Vision
- Be proud of how I spend my time and energy
Individual Goals
Be fit physically
- Weight less than 80kg
- ~~Get my resting heart rate below 70bpm~~ DONE
- Get my waist circumference below 90cm
Be fit mentally
- Learn to play a music instrument
- ~~Increase my meditation sessions to 15 minutes~~ DONE
- Increase my journaling sessions to 3 times a week
Accountability
I've exercised A LOT this week!
Exercise: 0 gym days but a lot of walking and swimming
Meditation: 0/5 days. I've been literally too tired to meditate.
Fitbit on green: 6/7 days and one of my best weeks ever (the only not green day I spent most of the day swimming with the Fitbit off)
Journaling: 4/2 days
Read every day: 5/5 days
Eat below my calorie limit: 5/5 days
Review my budget: 0/0 days
Actions this week
Second week away from home.
Exercise: 0 days (no gym)
Meditation: 5 days (I'm scaling it down)
Fitbit on green: 7 days (I hope to walk a lot)
Journaling: 2 days (travel journal!)
Read every day: 5 days (Maybe more)
Eat below my calorie limit: 5 days (free buffet breakfast at the hotel)
Review my budget: 0 days (I'll log my expenses, not much more)
Unplanned wins
No unplanned wins this week
Help Needed
Not yet
Individual Vision
- Be proud of how I spend my time and energy
Individual Goals
Be fit physically
- Weight less than 80kg
- ~~Get my resting heart rate below 70bpm~~ DONE
- Get my waist circumference below 90cm
Be fit mentally
- Learn to play a music instrument
- ~~Increase my meditation sessions to 15 minutes~~ DONE
- Increase my journaling sessions to 3 times a week
Accountability
Not a great week. Still awfully hot, no energy to walk/exercise
Exercise: 2/4 days
Meditation: 2/7 days
Fitbit on green: 1/7 days.
Journaling: 1/2 days
Read every day: 6/7 days
Eat below my calorie limit: 2/7 days.
Review my budget: 2/2 days
Actions this week
I'll be two weeks away from home so I've scaled down some habits to adapt it
Exercise: 0 days (no gym)
Meditation: 5 days (I'm scaling it down)
Fitbit on green: 7 days (I hope to walk a lot)
Journaling: 2 days (travel journal!)
Read every day: 5 days (Maybe more)
Eat below my calorie limit: 5 days (free buffet breakfast at the hotel)
Review my budget: 0 days (I'll log my expenses, not much more)
Unplanned wins
No unplanned wins this week
Help Needed
Not yet
Individual Vision
- Be proud of how I spend my time and energy
Individual Goals
Be fit physically
- Weight less than 80kg
- ~~Get my resting heart rate below 70bpm~~ DONE
- Get my waist circumference below 90cm
Be fit mentally
- Learn to play a music instrument
- ~~Increase my meditation sessions to 15 minutes~~ DONE
- Increase my journaling sessions to 3 times a week
Accountability
This week a heat wave has hit my city. It was painful to be outside and awful to be at home. No energy at all. However I did better than last week!
I've deactivated my Beeminder goals. It was too much.
Exercise: 4/4 days
Meditation: 3/7 days
Fitbit on green: 4/7 days. I got the average right though.
Journaling: 1/2 days
Read every day: 6/7 days
Eat below my calorie limit: 5/7 days.
Review my budget: 2/2 days
Actions this week
This is my last week before my two week vacation. Still very hot, let's see how it goes.
Exercise: 4 days
Meditation: 7 days
Fitbit on green: 7 days
Journaling: 2 days
Read every day: 7 days
Eat below my calorie limit: 7 days
Review my budget: 2 days
Unplanned wins
No unplanned wins this week
Help Needed
Not yet
Back from the ban! Thank you /u/nura2011 for letting me know that something was wrong with my account.
Individual Vision
- Be proud of how I spend my time and energy
Individual Goals
Be fit physically
- Weight less than 80kg
- ~~Get my resting heart rate below 70bpm~~ DONE
- Get my waist circumference below 90cm
Be fit mentally
- Learn to play a music instrument
- Increase my meditation sessions to 15 minutes
- Increase my journaling sessions to 3 times a week
Accountability
Nice week for some habits, awful week for some others
Exercise: 2/3 days - A little behind but not bad
Meditation: 6/5 days - Awesome!
Fitbit on green: 3/7 days - One of my worst weeks so far. Not cool!
Journaling: 1/2 days. Also need to improve
Read every day: 3/7 days - Also needs to improve
Eat below my calorie limit: 2/7 days. Veeery bad.
Actions this week
Standard week. I'm focusing on calories and Fitbit this week (The worst ones from last week)
Exercise: 3 days
Meditation: 5 days
Fitbit on green: 7 days
Journaling: 2 days
Read every day: 7 days
Eat below my calorie limit: 7 days
Unplanned wins
No uplanned wins this week
Help Needed
Not yet
Individual Vision
- Be proud of how I spend my time and energy
Individual Goals
Be fit physically
- Weight less than 80kg
- ~~Get my resting heart rate below 70bpm~~ DONE
- Get my waist circumference below 90cm
Be fit mentally
- Learn to play a music instrument
- Increase my meditation sessions to 15 minutes
- Increase my journaling sessions to 3 times a week
Accountability
I've not kept up with exercise but all my other habits were decent.
Exercise: 4/3 days - Nice!
Meditation: 3/5 days - Needs improvement
Fitbit on green: 6/7 days - and the only missing day was because I forgot it at home
Journaling: 4/2 days
Read every day: 4/7 days - needs improvement
Eat below my calorie limit: 6/7 days
Actions this week
Standard week. I'm focusing on improving meditation and reading.
Exercise: 3 days
Meditation: 5 days
Fitbit on green: 7 days
Journaling: 2 days
Read every day: 7 days
Eat below my calorie limit: 7 days
Unplanned wins
No uplanned wins this week
Help Needed
Not yet
Individual Vision
- Be proud of how I spend my time and energy
Individual Goals
Be fit physically
- Weight less than 80kg
- Get my resting heart rate below 70bpm
- Get my waist circumference below 90cm
Be fit mentally
- Learn to play a music instrument
- Increase my meditation sessions to 15 minutes
- Increase my journaling sessions to 3 times a week
Accountability
Exercise: 3/3 days
Meditation: 3/5 days (and not very good sessions; I need to improve this)
Fitbit on green: 4/7 days
Journaling: 2/2 days
Read every day: 5/7 days
Actions this week
Standard week
Exercise: 3 days
Meditation: 5 days
Fitbit on green: 7 days
Journaling: 2 days
Read every day: 7 days
Unplanned wins
No uplanned wins this week
Help Needed
Not yet
Individual Vision
- Be proud of how I spend my time and energy
Individual Goals
Be fit physically
- Weight less than 80kg
- Get my resting heart rate below 70bpm
- Get my waist circumference below 90cm
Be fit mentally
- Learn to play a music instrument
- Increase my meditation sessions to 15 minutes
- Increase my journaling sessions to 3 times a week
Accountability
Exercise: 0/3 days. Expected, as I've been travelling the whole week. I've been very active though.
Meditation: 3/5 days. Not bad but it's ok.
Fitbit on green: 5/7 days. I spent 2 days at a spa with the Fitbit off so I've nailed the rest of the week
Journaling: 4/2 days. Travel log :)
Read every day: 4/7 days. Need to focus on this!
Actions this week
I'm back home tomorrow and I need to focus on healthy eating. I've been eating a lot of bad foods in high amounts (two words: free buffet)
Exercise: 3 days
Meditation: 5 days
Fitbit on green: 7 days
Journaling: 2 days
Read every day: 7 days
Unplanned wins
One of my goals for this year is to learn to play an instrument. This week I've bought it: a ukulele.
Help Needed
Not yet
Individual Vision
- Be proud of how I spend my time and energy
Individual Goals
Be fit physically
- Weight less than 80kg
- Get my resting heart rate below 70bpm
- Get my waist circumference below 90cm
Be fit mentally
- Learn to play a music instrument
- Increase my meditation sessions to 15 minutes
- Increase my journaling sessions to 3 times a week
Accountability
I started the week right but had a work overload the last days of the workweek so I fell behind some habits.
Exercise: 3/3 days
Meditation: 3/5 days
Fitbit on green: 4/7 days
Journaling: 1/2 days
Read every day: 5/7 days
Actions this week
This week is a holiday in Spain. I will be traveling so I'm not sure if I'll be able to fulfill all the habits.
Exercise: 3 days
Meditation: 5 days
Fitbit on green: 7 days
Journaling: 2 days
Read every day: 7 days
Unplanned wins
I've included my Fitbit profile link. I plan to make some of my habit tracking public there (sleep time, exercise, maybe even meditation.) I've been experimenting this week with it, I hope to get better with the tracking and modify the "Fitbit on green" habit to be more telling
Help Needed
Not yet
Individual Vision
- Be proud of how I spend my time and energy
Individual Goals
Be fit physically
- Weight less than 80kg
- ~~Get my resting heart rate below 70bpm~~ DONE
- Get my waist circumference below 90cm
Be fit mentally
- Learn to play a music instrument
- ~~Increase my meditation sessions to 15 minutes~~ DONE
- Increase my journaling sessions to 3 times a week
Accountability
This week has been awful. I've failed in almost all the habits :(
Exercise: 2/3 days
Meditation: 0/7 days
Fitbit on green: 2/7 days and I haven't got to 10000 daily steps on average.
Journaling: 1/2 days
Read every day: 6/7 days
Eat below my calorie limit: 6/7 days.
Review my budget: 2/2 days
Actions this week
I'm starting a shorter work schedule this Wednesday. I plan to use the extra time to do productive stuff, let's see how it goes.
Exercise: 4 days
Meditation: 7 days
Fitbit on green: 7 days
Journaling: 2 days
Read every day: 7 days
Eat below my calorie limit: 7 days
Review my budget: 2 days
Unplanned wins
No unplanned wins this week
Help Needed
Not yet
Individual Vision
- Be proud of how I spend my time and energy
Individual Goals
Be fit physically
- Weight less than 80kg
- ~~Get my resting heart rate below 70bpm~~ DONE
- Get my waist circumference below 90cm
Be fit mentally
- Learn to play a music instrument
- ~~Increase my meditation sessions to 15 minutes~~ DONE
- Increase my journaling sessions to 3 times a week
Accountability
Another great week!
Exercise: 2/1 days
Meditation: 6/7 days - Definitely sticking!
Fitbit on green: 2/7 days - Lower than usual. I miscalculated the impact of my days off
Journaling: 2/2 days.
Read every day: 7/7 days
Eat below my calorie limit: 3/7 days. Not very good.
Review my budget: 2/2
Actions this week
I'll be visiting my hometown most of the week so again exercise is lower than usual.
Exercise: 1 days
Meditation: 7 days
Fitbit on green: 7 days
Journaling: 2 days
Read every day: 7 days
Eat below my calorie limit: 7 days
Review my budget: 2 days
Unplanned wins
No unplanned wins this week
Help Needed
Not yet
Individual Vision
- Be proud of how I spend my time and energy
Individual Goals
Be fit physically
- ~~Weight less than 80kg~~ DONE
- ~~Get my resting heart rate below 70bpm~~ DONE
- Get my waist circumference below 90cm
Be fit mentally
- Learn to play a music instrument
- ~~Increase my meditation sessions to 15 minutes~~ DONE
- ~~Increase my journaling sessions to 3 times a week~~ DONE
Accountability
Very bad week. I walked a lot with my mom but the rest of the habits have been behind. Not good.
Meditate 2/5 days
Journaling 5/5 days
Gym 1/0 days
Fitbit on green 5/7 days
Eat below calorie limit 1/7 days
Read 5/7 days
Actions this week
This week I need to get back on track as soon as possible
Meditate 5 days
Journaling 5 days
Gym 4 days
Fitbit on green 7 days
Eat below calorie limit 7 days
Read 7 days
Unplanned wins
Not this week
Help Needed
Not yet
Individual Vision
- Be proud of how I spend my time and energy
Individual Goals
Be fit physically
- ~~Weight less than 80kg~~ DONE
- ~~Get my resting heart rate below 70bpm~~ DONE
- Get my waist circumference below 90cm
Be fit mentally
- Learn to play a music instrument
- ~~Increase my meditation sessions to 15 minutes~~ DONE
- ~~Increase my journaling sessions to 3 times a week~~ DONE
Accountability
Pretty great week!
Meditate 6/5 days
Journaling 6/5 days
Gym 3/4 days
Fitbit on green 4/7 days
Eat below calorie limit 5/7 days
Read 5/7 days
Actions this week
My mother is visiting so I'm not sure if I'll be able to perform some of the habits.
Meditate 5 days
Journaling 5 days
Gym 0 days
Fitbit on green 7 days
Eat below calorie limit 7 days
Read 7 days
Unplanned wins
I finally weight less than 80kg. Next milestone: 75!
Help Needed
Not yet
Individual Vision
- Be proud of how I spend my time and energy
Individual Goals
Be fit physically
- Weight less than 80kg
- ~~Get my resting heart rate below 70bpm~~ DONE
- Get my waist circumference below 90cm
Be fit mentally
- Learn to play a music instrument
- Increase my meditation sessions to 15 minutes
- Increase my journaling sessions to 3 times a week
Accountability
I've not kept up with exercise but all my other habits were decent.
Exercise: 1/3 days - Not cool!
Meditation: 4/5 days (Still needs improvement)
Fitbit on green: 4/7 days - Could be better
Journaling: 4/2 days
Read every day: 5/7 days
Eat below my calorie limit: 5/7 days
Actions this week
Standard week. I need to improve my exercise and keep up the healthy eating
Exercise: 3 days
Meditation: 5 days
Fitbit on green: 7 days
Journaling: 2 days
Read every day: 7 days
Eat below my calorie limit: 7 days
Unplanned wins
No uplanned wins this week
Help Needed
Not yet
Individual Vision
- Be proud of how I spend my time and energy
Individual Goals
Be fit physically
- Weight less than 80kg
- ~~Get my resting heart rate below 70bpm~~ DONE
- Get my waist circumference below 90cm
Be fit mentally
- Learn to play a music instrument
- Increase my meditation sessions to 15 minutes
- Increase my journaling sessions to 3 times a week
Accountability
I got my resting heart rate below 70bpm but I got over 80kg again. My food intake has been very bad this week, I need to work on that.
Exercise: 4/3 days - Pretty good!
Meditation: 3/5 days (Still needs improvement)
Fitbit on green: 6/7 days (great week again!)
Journaling: 2/2 days
Read every day: 5/7 days
Actions this week
Standard week. I'm adding a new item: eat below my calorie limit. This means I have to log my calorie intake and make it less than my daily limit.
Exercise: 3 days
Meditation: 5 days
Fitbit on green: 7 days
Journaling: 2 days
Read every day: 7 days
Eat below my calorie limit: 7 days
Unplanned wins
No uplanned wins this week
Help Needed
Not yet
Individual Vision
- Be proud of how I spend my time and energy
Individual Goals
Be fit physically
- Weight less than 80kg
- ~~Get my resting heart rate below 70bpm~~ DONE
- Get my waist circumference below 90cm
Be fit mentally
- Learn to play a music instrument
- ~~Increase my meditation sessions to 15 minutes~~ DONE
- Increase my journaling sessions to 3 times a week
Accountability
Exercise: 0/1 days - The only day I could go to the gym was Monday and I was ill. I slept less than three hours so I needed to rest.
Meditation: 5/7 days
Fitbit on green: 6/7 days - More than 108.000 steps in the week! My record! The missing day was Monday for the reasons above
Journaling: 2/2 days.
Read every day: 5/7 days.
Eat below my calorie limit: 3/7 days. I need to improve on this.
Review my budget: 3/2
Actions this week
Exercise: 3 days
Meditation: 7 days
Fitbit on green: 7 days
Journaling: 2 days
Read every day: 7 days
Eat below my calorie limit: 7 days
Review my budget: 2 days
Unplanned wins
No unplanned wins this week
Help Needed
Not yet
Individual Vision
- Be proud of how I spend my time and energy
Individual Goals
Be fit physically
- Weight less than 80kg
- ~~Get my resting heart rate below 70bpm~~ DONE
- Get my waist circumference below 90cm
Be fit mentally
- Learn to play a music instrument
- ~~Increase my meditation sessions to 15 minutes~~ DONE
- Increase my journaling sessions to 3 times a week
Accountability
Another great week!
Exercise: 4/3 days
Meditation: 6/5 days - Definitely sticking!
Fitbit on green: 4/7 days - Not bad. As always I tried to compensate it to get to the weekly average
Journaling: 2/2 days.
Read every day: 3/7 days - Improving from previous weeks but I'm better than this!
Eat below my calorie limit: 6/7 days. Very good!
Actions this week
I have a couple of days off this week and I'll probably be away so I'm scaling some habits down
Exercise: 1 days
Meditation: 7 days
Fitbit on green: 7 days
Journaling: 2 days
Read every day: 7 days
Eat below my calorie limit: 7 days
Review my budget: 2 days
Unplanned wins
No unplanned wins this week
Help Needed
Not yet
Awesome. I wish I could read as much as you have.
I started to get into stoicism last year and read most of A Guide to the Good Life and got A Man In Full. I really like much of Stoicism.
I loved Cat's Craddle, Ender's Game, Cloud Atlas, and Life of Pi.
I just try to focus on my breath. When thoughts arise and I get trapped in them, I try to notice it and bring my attention back to breath. I learned this technique from "Mindfulness in Plain English" by Bhante G. I must admit that I am not a serious meditator though! :-)
> I can't start this position until early January, so I need to get damn good this month. That is my only goal.
I'd say that your heart is in the right place. If I were you, I'd do the following:
Ask them about the technologies they use. Is this a web development job? Do they use things like Hibernate, Spring, etc.? What database do they use? This is so that you can read up on those areas before you join them.
Go through the Java tutorials at Oracle : http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/ .
If you already know the basics of Java, read a book such as Effective Java or Thinking in Java.
That's all that comes to mind. You may also want to get used to the Java ecosystem such as JUnit, Maven, etc. and also an IDE such as Eclipse. I am not a Java person, but /r/java or /r/learnprogramming may have more suggestions for you.