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  • Sleep Stats: My Night Time Routine

    There’s some pride I take towards getting good sleep score when I sleep and wake up the next day. I think its mostly me being proud of myself getting in a place to get good sleep, like reading, and chilling out. Getting a good night time routine going to get me asleep.

    Currently this is my night time routine:

    Turn off all major bright room lights and get all warm lights on

    Shower for the day (cold showers preferable)

    Floss and Brush teeth, maybe gargle / mouthwash.

    Cool down in the bedroom, with aircon and fan on, to get my body temp lower.

    Write or summarize the day in some way. It could be an app tracking the things I did today. Or this daily blog

    Read a book.

    I find that this sequence has worked one of the best, and got me a really good score yesterday. And it needs to be done by about 10PM, if not my brain gets kinda cranky, and I don’t get myself to sleep properly.

    I also realised I really enjoy the use of soft earplugs. Last night I used the Loop earbuds, that are great to sleep with for some reason. They don’t hurt my ears like how some of the foam ones do, and they don’t roll out of my ears through the night.

    I’m aiming to have really good sleep tonight again, because I’ve done all the things that I mentioned above, and I’m really ready to rest well for tomorrow’s early day.

    A self reminder post for myself to have good sleep.

  • New Routines

    Making a new routine is legit tough work. The night before, I wrote out this really long line by line time table of the things I needed to go through, and man, it really was quite detailed. But I think after the first part of the day, I couldn’t really keep to it. I’ll do a debrief for myself later, and hopefully tomorrow I can do a nice work time table again.

    As much as I really like to make the new routines and timetables, I really feel like I need a larger sense of freedom in the first place. I stand by what Jocko Willink preaches: Discipline Equals Freedom. That space that I can hold tight for each purpose gives me a larger sense of freedom that I can’t find if nothing is defined. It’s not cool when I can’t do something when I want to, because there’s no time limitations on it. If I put time limitations on, at least that way I know that I can dedicate 100% of my efforts for that time specifically.

    In any case, one day of routine at a time. And as a daily blog will be good for me.

  • Coffee on Hot Days

    Why do I do these things to myself? I just wrote a (fake) 10 things to do to survive hot Singapore, and yet the next morning when I wake up I make a hot cup of coffee. The amount of sweat that I keep giving out is intense, and I really just can’t deal with this.

    There’s also this thought that having a warm drink on a warm day will make the hot weather feel cooler. But honestly, it really doesn’t. I feel myself getting sweaty, just pouring out sweat from all my pores. I just keep showering most of the time, and it’s making me feel too damp most of the time.

    Quick review of Blue Bottle Bold Coffee beans: I rate it 3/5 Coffee beans. It’s strong especially on pour over, that I normally do it on. It reminds me of the Starbucks and Coffee bean brewed coffee kinda flavours. It’s not horrible, but its not great either. Meh. Maybe it’ll taste better on Aeropress. Better and more detailed review soon.

    Is it because the familiar taste of hot coffee overpowers the heat sensors within the body? Or maybe it’s because the idea of routine and what makes up the routine is more important the actual heat that I face through the process of the routine.

    It also asks the question of the routine: was the routine meant for the person, or the person for the routine? I think it’s a big question that demands a flexible change for when you need to do something. At some point, the decision of why you had planned something in the first place might have changed. So a new routine needs to be made, to match the current time’s needs.

    One of the key things that I’ll need to adjust for in my routines is to deal with the current heat wave, and I think having time to cool down daily is a good thing to plan for. I’m trying to figure out a cool drink or a cooling posture to have. Maybe sitting down in front of somewhere, or just in a cooling place in the home.

    I’ll update back about this soon, I hope, if I don’t forget.

  • When is now?

    I keep forgetting where I am on these daily updates. I forget what week I’m on, what day it is, and the list goes on. There are days when I forget when I’ve eaten, and when I’ve exercised. I forget when I’ve replied people, the meetings and other things that I’ve scheduled together.

    Maybe it’s the cause of working from home. Maybe it’s this COVID situation and all the constant news that sounds so much the same every day. But I really can’t keep living my life this way.

    I’ve been trying to take stock and get things aligned again. Discipline is really hard to come by. I have to keep on at it, and it’s really easy to just drop off. I’ve got daily planners, alarms, schedules, everything. But it’s just me who hasn’t gotten it down well.

    One day and one habit at a time I guess. Slowly but surely huh.