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Tag: personal development

  • Process and Productivity

    Definitely made good progress from yesterday to today! I utilized as many productivity processes that I could think of and here are the ones that I settled with.

    Notion Template

    I use a year – month – week – day Notion template. I was trying really hard to find it, but the template gallery has been really hard to work with. I’ll link it back here when I’ve gotten it together.

    In essence, I get a year overview, then I get a monthly direction thing that I can set for myself, including personal goals and reflections, then I have a weekly log for weekly goals, and the finally a daily log with a journal and reflection space as well. Honestly if I was unemployed, or pursuing arts purely, I might use that template in a real life journal for me to track myself.

    The Yearly Schedule
    The monthly template looks like this
    Weekly
    Finally, the daily journal portion

    Bullet Journal

    I also use a bullet journal, the minimal and highly functional type. This gives me an overview of the month/year and I know that I can use it for daily tasks, but sometimes I just don’t have the space to carry this on me. I try to use it at the end or at the start of the day specifically.

    My template follows the most basic bullet journal layout, from the guys themselves: https://bulletjournal.com/pages/learn. I made a tweak for two portions: my monthly log has my full work schedule inside, and instead of goals, I’ve placed my habit tracker on the right hand side. This is because my daily tasks don’t usually follow through, and I don’t really track them on my bullet journal. Or at least I haven’t the past two years.

    Monthly log

    Within the space next to the date and day, I have 4 slots of time, which are expanded on the right of it. It’s indicative of morning, afternoon, evening, and night. This came mostly because my work has flexible hours, except for some non negotiable slots, so I have to track my working slots specifically. Usually I plonk in the mandatory ones first, then I will fill the space as I go along the day.

    On the right side, the habit tracker is really for my own noting. I find that noting it this way works better than using a digital tracker, which I also have. I think its the process of taking the bullet journal out that makes it a very intentional tracking process. Also I don’t get distracted by texts and emails on my bullet journal.

    Past Year Review

    Lastly, I’ve used Tim Ferriss Past Year Review for this year round. It’s an interesting process to think through the year past, and I’ve come up with some things that I really want to do more of, and some things that I should really avoid. Because of that, I’ve also intentionally included things like skateboarding, or reading into my schedule

    It’s more of an internal process than anything else, but that determines your set of actions that you choose to take daily. One of the key things that I’ve really been annoyed with and I want to avoid is the obligatory meetings that I need to attend. To skip out on something that I actually need to be present for sounds ridiculous, but I’ve decided to draw and to create during those meetings. My hands can practice as my mind wanders a bit, and hopefully it will end up being a productive time for myself.

    Hopefully these thoughts and processes were helpful. I think it’s made me come up with one of the most intentional posts I’ve ever written here.

  • Free

    There was a time when I was considering writing as a side gig, like maybe a possible thing that I could get into. Not so much income, but just another skillet to develop for possible business? Like for fun, the same way I do drawings and things like that. That thought was put through the reins when I was writing a lot on Medium, because I thought that would be a good place where I could get random people to read my posts, and I could get some side money from it. Either that or I could maybe just curate myself better on the go.

    Also at that time, this site was in a huge question mark. I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do with this, and it just felt like I was holding the website for the sake of it. WordPress’ layouts were also kinda boring then. I mean now that I’m here, it’s clear that I can deal with this, but it’s not perfect either, but at least it’s somewhere.

    But over time, I realized I didn’t like writing with other writers on Medium. It felt like I couldn’t really express myself as me, and I had to form myself into a shape that others could understand, something like YouTube. The content needs to be what the rest would be willing to watch.

    That’s not me. I’m not really good with dealing with everyone else. I can do work, and I can be friends with people, but having to write creatively for someone else is not something I enjoyed. I found that I also don’t know how to feel about taking drawing commissions to be honest. It felt like there were things that I didn’t want to do, but I had to make do.

    But because of that, I realized I like writing here, for myself. I honestly don’t care too much if people read it or not, the same way when I had written for others when I was younger, I wrote specifically expressing myself to them. It was good, and I really enjoyed it. It was who I was, and what I wanted to be.

    So now back to this particular site, and for me to write as freely as I would want to, it makes me happy. I am very happy with it indeed. I wish there were more ways for me to express it, but time will tell. I will continue to write here often, and I will continue to share what I learn about myself in this whole time.

    If you’re here and this is the first thing you’re getting to read, please just have fun and see where my mind has been on this site. It’s just a peak, but I promise I’ll explain more about how I think in the time to come.

    All that being said, I’m really keen on having my keyboard that I’m typing with to sound and feel a certain way. But apparently it’ll just be time that will get me there. That’s tough, because I’m honestly not the most patient person in the world. Also because of that, I feel like I might want to get another keyboard just to wear in now, before I want to use it later on as well.

    I really get into way too many hobbies interests that take too much of my time, and I really don’t have that much time. Time to get started again.

    https://youtu.be/XOnCffYzGXo this is the sound of said keyboard. My own video of this will be coming up here real soon. 🙂