It’s Saturday night and if I can finish writing this blog tonight, I might finally be able to publish the blog on time, after like a month.
Personal Highlights
This week passed very quickly, maybe because the last blog was a bit delayed or maybe because I just liked getting busy with all the job-related work.
Mindfulness
- Journaling: At a point where I feel like I should remove it from my habit tracker and blog because this has become a regular habit, like brushing teeth.
I love how natural it feels to journal every day and I don’t have to force myself to write. Even if I miss it sometimes, I just come back to writing it later in the day. (which has happened only a few times so far)
Fitness
- Morning Run: I went out more days this week compared to last week but the phone’s GPS wasn’t working correctly, so I got the wrong data for 2 days.
Will get a cheap smartwatch soon with GPS inbuilt to avoid errors like this.
Learning
- Reading: Made some progress in Getting things done.
Check Highlights below - Coding: Same as last week.
Optimization and Organization
Not very sure what I optimized in my personal life this week. Maybe it was something so micro that I don’t remember now but I continued optimizing in my job.
Job Update
Last week’s discovery of tricks helped me save quite some time this week and that led to me discovering a few things in my job, like how tiring it was to scrub through the video timeline to a timestamp. Copy-pasting saves a lot more time, so I figured out a way to make the received timestamps premiere pro friendly so that I could paste them.
Between all the work and collaborating with others on the job, I am getting a few software ideas that I could make for teams like ours and help save a lot of their time. The problem is I don’t know how to make one, but I hope as I learn to code slowly, I will be able to make what I am looking for someday. I know it’s smarter to start right now and collaborate with others and build it, but it is just that I already have a lot on my plate.
Business Updates
I think I had said that I would prospect and send out cold emails this week, which I did ….
But only for a day, I sent like 25 cold emails on Friday and before that I just did not get the time or wasn’t able to manage the time to prospect and send emails.
Thoughts from the past week
It’s not like I had a lot of work that I have been failing at cold emailing, but my work and time are not managed and they are very random, something I am actively trying to control every day. I wish I could plan out the week ahead, but it’s just that the place where I work is new and not managed in terms of work bandwidth and so what I am looking for right now might not be possible for them and so I have to manage these stuff in my end.
I think I will have to come up with strict guidelines and time blocks for myself to achieve it all but till then, I will just try to keep learning every day. Also, I am feeling a bit sleepy and feel like my writing is getting sloppy.
Opinions
If you are trying to improve your sleep schedule
— TRB (@teeaarbee) January 18, 2022
Start your day at 10PM every day.
It's very unlikely that you will give up on the first commitment of the day (to bed on time).
