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GTD Weekly Review
April Week 2 (April 13 - 18)
High-impact tasks completed this week:
- Beginning to use obsidian and recording my first week experiences
- Completely revolutionized the way I take notes, and am looking forward to further optimizing it and becoming more efficient with it!
- Gives me an incentive to capture the things I learn, which is important since I learn a lot xd
- Won’t be surprised if I use it for the rest of my life
- Completely revolutionized the way I take notes, and am looking forward to further optimizing it and becoming more efficient with it!
- Finished ELA soliloquy, ELA recap, and comparative essay
- Managed to maintain a 100 going into the final, hopefully I don’t drop it too much :p
- It’s gonna be weird no longer having to do any essays or writing until university where I’ll only have one class left for it
- Finished reading “how to take smart notes”
- Perfect timing considering I just started using obsidian
- Submitted math handin, got a 5 on both ap practice exams given
- I’m just gonna tone it down a bit and focus on other things
- Finished unit 1 of nand2tetris
- It was fun learning about the different computer gates and actually building them
- the progression from a simple nand gate to dmux8ways and other complex chips was satisfying to build
- was a nice change from coding without knowing the internals of how a pc works
- It’d be neat if I can finish a unit a week
- It was fun learning about the different computer gates and actually building them
- Managed to create a decent point systems for the app
- Only problem is I’m starting to get errors for code that I copy-pasted, so troubleshooting is a pain since I don’t know half the concepts lmao
Other notable tasks completed this week:
- Finished jujutsu kaisen :p
- Enjoyed the anime a lot, kind of want to watch more action/super power animes now xd
Measuring key metrics:
- Productive hours:
- Mon- 11
- Tues- 10.75
- Wed- 10.25
- Thurs- 9.5
- Fri- 11
- Sat- 10
- Sun- 10
- Total Hours: 72.5
- Hours average: 10.35 hours/day
- Too lazy to subtract the time spent on 5 minute pomodoro breaks, and I don’t always take them so idek
Assessment for important categories:
- Was mainly productive during my time spent, so I was able to get lots done
- Only parts of friction were reading articles earlier in the week as well as app development
Reflection
How do you feel about the last week?
- Probably my most productive week yet, I don’t know if I should take a break or if I should try and make this the norm hmm
What setbacks did I face this week, and what can I do to deal with it next week?
- I genuinely cannot focus while talking to other people on discord
- Don’t join discord calls when I’m working, and mitigate my conversations during deep work sessions
What are possible areas for improvement to maximize success?
- I just need to practice focus and awareness so I can achieve extreme levels of productivity
- Have a pre-determined plan for time blocks
- Plan the day before using to-do lists or obsidian or something
- Have a pre-determined plan for time blocks
- Implementing my water reminder and using the reminder for other things like checking my posture, ensuring muscle relaxation, increasing bloodflow, clearing my mind, etc
- Need to practice skimming through articles to see if any information is new and important
Future Plan
What lead measures (skills) do I want to work on in the week ahead?
- 0.5/d wellness research/learning
- little daily hacks, diet, skincare, meditation
- 0.5/d article reading
- Gotta make the most of my medium free trial :p
- Networking and preparing for BC and university transition
- I want to feel at home when I’m there, and I want to have support groups and get to know people who are taking similar classes
- I have to accept SFU by april 30th if ubc still hasn’t reviewed my application
- Can be done during breaks
- Consider more intricate ways to reflect during my daily and weekly reviews
- Experiment more I guess What lag measures (products) do I want to complete in the week ahead?
- Review essay one more time
- Mentally prepare for math final and new quarter transition
- Possibly chat with teachers prior to learn how it’s gonna work out
- Pray that we don’t go back to irl learning
- Possibly chat with teachers prior to learn how it’s gonna work out
- Mentally prepare for math final and new quarter transition
- 1/d Finish reading “4 hour body”
- 1/d finish obsidian experience review
- Script, audio recording, visuals
- Think of ways to be more engaging
- Script, audio recording, visuals
- 1.5/d math practice
- Download ap digital testing app
- Do some practice MC in place of FRQ possibly
- Otherwise, just skim through FRQs
- 1/d Unit 2 nand2tetris
- probably won’t finish but i’ll try to
- 1/d App development
- Gotta learn how to use stack overflow and fix problems I don’t understand
- 1/d convert book notes to obsidian
- Keep expanding my second brain :)
- 0.5/d daily review and journalling
- Find new anime to watch or play new VR puzzle game
- Come up with an awareness routine
- Breathing exercises, mindset/meditation, something pleasing and relaxing yet motivating
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