{"id":1040,"date":"2010-10-14T18:18:17","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T10:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/visaisahero.wordpress.com\/?p=1040"},"modified":"2015-02-18T09:57:29","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T09:57:29","slug":"goals-routines-habits-and-hesitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/2010\/10\/14\/goals-routines-habits-and-hesitation\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-Assessment: goals, routines, habits and hesitation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Time for a bit of introspective reflection and philosophical spring cleaning!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Online Productivity:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve gotten a Grooveshark account and made a playlist of music that I like. This makes me really happy, because now I have an awesome soundtrack of music to blog to!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to make sure that the playlist is a fixed length- perhaps 100 minutes, and commit to getting off the computer once it runs its course. I imagine this will reduce the amount of time I waste aimlessly wandering the internet! We&#8217;ll see if it works. Implementing now.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I need to blog more regularly<\/li>\n<li>write more regularly too with pen and paper.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Not much to say or plan here- the only thing is to get a bit done every day, consistently- and then refine things from there.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fitness:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m really happy with my fitness gains. I haven&#8217;t hit the gym in a few days- the past few workouts have been exceptionally hard on me, and I feel like I need at least a week to recover and\u00a0re-cooperate\u00a0fully from the accumulated fatigue.<\/p>\n<p>I plan I&#8217;ll hit the gym again soon, invigorated and fitter than ever. A little voice in my head tells me that I&#8217;m going to give up, but I intend to shut it up. I&#8217;ve come too far to fail now- I truly enjoy the rush the endorphins give me, and the literally empowering feeling of increased strength&#8230; I&#8217;m not going to give all that up for nothing.<\/p>\n<p>Fitness will continue to be my &#8220;main priority&#8221;, and the bedrock that I fall back on even if I slip on anything else.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I plan to accomplish this by: <\/strong>Continuing what I&#8217;ve been doing for the past 11 weeks, and then stepping it up.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Moderate long term goal: <\/strong>Learn to swim, complete a 10km run by the end of the year, weigh 72kg by the end of the year<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Spoiled for choice.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I recently read Nassim Taleb&#8217;s <strong>The Black Swan<\/strong>, and it blew my mind to smithereens.<\/li>\n<li>Edge.org&#8217;s <strong>What We Believe But Cannot Prove<\/strong> is presently blowing my mind,<\/li>\n<li>Judith Rich Harris&#8217;s <strong>The Nurture Assumption<\/strong> is going to further give my brain a good humping.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I don&#8217;t want to read them casually and forget them- I want to absorb them and assimilate their ideas, and develop intellectually.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I plan to accomplish this by: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>studying the books intensely<\/li>\n<li>making notes and annotations<\/li>\n<li>thinking about them,<\/li>\n<li>analysing the ideas on paper,<\/li>\n<li>summarizing them<\/li>\n<li>testing my understanding of these ideas by sharing them with my friends. (The poor bastards.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Moderate long term goal: <\/strong>I plan to do like a massive mind map or chart of sorts of all the influential books I have read, drawing links between ideas- and the end-game is when I&#8217;m able to explain all of them with clarity and fluency.<\/p>\n<p>Other things include music- I just bought new guitar strings&#8230; okay, less talking, more doing. More next time, maybe! This post isn&#8217;t complete, but I don&#8217;t care! Roar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time for a bit of introspective reflection and philosophical spring cleaning! Online Productivity: I&#8217;ve gotten a Grooveshark account and made a playlist of music that I like. This makes me really happy, because now I have an awesome soundtrack of music to blog to! 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