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Well, I am here again after a year and half from the previous post.
I have to say that this time passed has been amazing, I think to be a champion of procastination!
All my projects got derailed after the first issues, no learning code, no blog about chess, no designing a boardgame, nothing, nada, niet, nisba.
Needless to say my life has not changed that much, same actions same outcomes, I was stucked in the perpetual "I am waiting for ..." condition.
Why I was? Because this pandemic disaster, at least, opened my eyes about what I don't want to really do anymore, in the last two months I am working at home and I have simply discovered that I love to spend my time in the garden instead in a building, have lunch with my family and not with my office colleagues, enjoying my personal dress (naked with just my boxer shorts), right after the end of the working day being able to read, study or whatever.
I know that it sounds stupid, and it is, because is so obvious, but living those moments instead that just imagine them, well...made all the difference for me.
Exit the day by day routine and feeling what you can do just with so few time recovered has been a brain wash, the hammock is stil the same than the previous year but I am having greater enjoyment when laying down on it.
Not sure if I have had a FTE moment (using the MJ DeMarco's words) because no big health issues so far, we still have our jobs, our kids are fine, it is just like some mind screen disappeared, you know that something is wrong but knowing without full awareness it is like to know nothing.
My change has started with my weight, yes another silly obviousness that fat is bad, and now after almost two months I lost 11 kilos, not a so great achievement but still a good result for me.
In the past I used to write to do list for almost everything and give me various targets, and when an obstacle showed up all my plans end in nothing, then I told myself that next week I will try again with a better to do list, next month I will change goal, and so on.
This time my strategy has been just to do something every day, doesn't matter how big or small is what I am doing. I don't care if something gone wrong during the day anymore, I don't have to reach a target, I am just enyoing the process, I am starting to understand that a change, even if it means to give up on something, is pleasant.
Then I have added an online course about learning (the very same course that I never concluded 1,5 years ago) and after two weeks I don't have miss a single study lesson, even if it was only 20 minutes long, again no fixed target to follow but just willing to study every day something.
Feeling a real behaviour change this time, few days ago I bought the new MJ DeMarco's book (not sure what kind of new stuff can be included respect the others two) and I am willing to put into practice his advices trying to create something from scratch.
Which business? I still don't know what I will do yet, after to have finished the book something will come up, if not I will read this forum, now my new philosophy is just to do something every day towards the financial independence, enjoing the process and avoiding to follow a fixed target.
Wow, a lenghty post indeed, this is my declaration of intent for the future, time will tell if effective actions will follow!
Cheers
I have to say that this time passed has been amazing, I think to be a champion of procastination!
All my projects got derailed after the first issues, no learning code, no blog about chess, no designing a boardgame, nothing, nada, niet, nisba.
Needless to say my life has not changed that much, same actions same outcomes, I was stucked in the perpetual "I am waiting for ..." condition.
Why I was? Because this pandemic disaster, at least, opened my eyes about what I don't want to really do anymore, in the last two months I am working at home and I have simply discovered that I love to spend my time in the garden instead in a building, have lunch with my family and not with my office colleagues, enjoying my personal dress (naked with just my boxer shorts), right after the end of the working day being able to read, study or whatever.
I know that it sounds stupid, and it is, because is so obvious, but living those moments instead that just imagine them, well...made all the difference for me.
Exit the day by day routine and feeling what you can do just with so few time recovered has been a brain wash, the hammock is stil the same than the previous year but I am having greater enjoyment when laying down on it.
Not sure if I have had a FTE moment (using the MJ DeMarco's words) because no big health issues so far, we still have our jobs, our kids are fine, it is just like some mind screen disappeared, you know that something is wrong but knowing without full awareness it is like to know nothing.
My change has started with my weight, yes another silly obviousness that fat is bad, and now after almost two months I lost 11 kilos, not a so great achievement but still a good result for me.
In the past I used to write to do list for almost everything and give me various targets, and when an obstacle showed up all my plans end in nothing, then I told myself that next week I will try again with a better to do list, next month I will change goal, and so on.
This time my strategy has been just to do something every day, doesn't matter how big or small is what I am doing. I don't care if something gone wrong during the day anymore, I don't have to reach a target, I am just enyoing the process, I am starting to understand that a change, even if it means to give up on something, is pleasant.
Then I have added an online course about learning (the very same course that I never concluded 1,5 years ago) and after two weeks I don't have miss a single study lesson, even if it was only 20 minutes long, again no fixed target to follow but just willing to study every day something.
Feeling a real behaviour change this time, few days ago I bought the new MJ DeMarco's book (not sure what kind of new stuff can be included respect the others two) and I am willing to put into practice his advices trying to create something from scratch.
Which business? I still don't know what I will do yet, after to have finished the book something will come up, if not I will read this forum, now my new philosophy is just to do something every day towards the financial independence, enjoing the process and avoiding to follow a fixed target.
Wow, a lenghty post indeed, this is my declaration of intent for the future, time will tell if effective actions will follow!
Cheers