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Week 4 (April 26-May 2)

Weekly Progress

Tasks

Notable/High-Impact

• Be up-to-date with my social assignments
• Finish reading “Mindfulness in Plain English”, start reading “Bold”
• Accepted my SFU offer
  • Started socializing with my fellow undergrads :D
• Finish learning nand2tetris unit 2, 3, and 4, starting project 4
• Finish the basis of my app

Moderate/Low-Impact

• Integrated a bunch of obsidian notes into book notes
• Copped the finalmouse starlight-12 and some new keeb stuff
• Started playing VALORANT again, hit top 4800 NA

Categories Assessment

Productive

Reading

• Took a while to read the mindfulness book, but had a flash of speedreading when reading “bold”
  • I just need to consciously try to read fast and not ease down Nand2Tetris The course has helped me better ground myself in the fundamentals of computer science
• Might continue to have assistance for assignments as long as I understand what’s happening
  • More efficient time-wise and it’s not like I’m being graded for my learning Obsidian So grateful for this program and being inspired by Zain to try it :))))
• I wanna try and find one life hack for obsidian a week, as I should always try to find ways to improve my note-taking and organization
  • Have a daily note for tasks instead of having it in a journal maybe?
    • Start using google calendar for reminders more, I probably don’t need todoist as much anymore as I like the customizability of obsidian
• Organized GTD, 7 Habits, Atomic Habits, 4 Hour Body, Grit, Mindfulness in Plain english, Mindset, Give and Take
  • I did not realize I organized this much lmao, ima have to decide on whether I want to binge it all or take it slower
    • Curious as to how I’ll organize the other books as they’re more wack
• Added some more templates and plugins like Obsidian Git

Videography Missed making videos and kind of want to make it a habit, although I felt like I burnt myself out with the amount of time I spent this week video editing

• Made a minecraft social vid
• Finally started obsidian project
  • Planning footage to go along with my script helps a lot with organization
• uploaded deep end val and kaikai kitan val
• finished editing crying for rain
  • Adopted new editing techniques VALORANT Surprised I was able to stay in immortal until I realized how bad some other immortals are LMAO
• Joining a team (probably uni) would sound cool
• Should try to:
  • learn more agents
  • encourage teamplay
  • work on youtube valorant content
  • work on marshall skills
  • aim train once I get my mouse if it doesn’t sell :p

School

• Didn’t join any comm media classes, joined some of the math classes, joined all social classes
  • Caught up with all social homework
  • quick rant: why is the guy with covid the one who ends up initiating a group project and also write the whole script LMAOOO
    • idc if we get a bad mark for this
• Lucky I’m able to turn a personal project (obsidian video) into something for marks lmao
• I’m curious as to how it’s gonna work with me staying at home with other people going back to school
  • I’m suprised this is allowed lmao, but that might just be me since I was personally affected by it

App Development OMGOAMSKLDMALDMALKDMALKDMAKLM FINALLY

• Should probably touch it up and make it more user friendly because it isn’t at all
  • Spaghetti code yum yum Social
• Finally broke out of my shell and started chatting with other SFU peeps, happy I’m starting to be more proactive
  • Hoping to join a friend group for comp sci
  • Next step is to chat with current SFU students/staff and ask for help/guidance >:)
• Got to talk to cousins :D
  • Hope jessica finds something for uni

Key Metrics

• Productive hours:
  • Mon- 8.75
  • Tues- 9
  • Wed- 8
  • Thurs- 6.5 (played 4.5 hours of val bruh)
  • Fri- 9
  • Sat- 8
  • Sun- 7.5+ as of writing this (1hr review)
  • Total Hours:56.76+
  • Hours average: 8+
    • Lower than usual
      • Should make up for my increased length breaks and try out new time structures

Reflection

Thoughts About the Week

• Glad I was able to easily get back into being productive again
  • To be fair, there was less thinking required as it was mostly editing videos/organizing
• There is a huge difference between 8 hours a day and 10 hours a day

Setbacks

• Length of breaks
  • VAL games take ~45 mins, plus the stuff I might need to do in between makes it longer
    • Should limit val games to also spend time watching anime and playing vr games
• Sleeping too much
  • Makes me sleepy at a later time, making me sleep later

Catalysts

• Vipassana meditation has helped me recollect myself whenever I get distracted, and start the day with a clear mind

Future Plan

Thoughts

• I’m ready to see some exponential progress this next week
  • I want to be more productive than I ever was while also maintaining the amount of leisure I have in a day
    • Strict attention management is key
  • Work on career, overall learning, videography, highschool, uni, socializing, stocks, improving my quality of live

Adjustments/Improvements

• Do what zain suggested and experiment with different break lengths
  • Enforce tight timeframes to ensure I’m always focused and add urgency
  • I kinda like the consistency though
  • Maximum 1hr work/20min break ratio
    • Gonna start with 3 hours work, then do 2 for rest of day?
• More neat notes to help organize life
  • laws note, tasks/schedule note
    • I like documenting stuff, but my plans and todos would be logged by my journals so this switch could potentially be more efficient :p
• Maybe keep 8 hours of productive work but put emphasis on focus and flow?
  • I’ll have to effectively master it somewhat first though

Lag Measures (Products)

Productive

Single

• Spend time implementing 4 hour body workouts and other exercise
• 1-2 Search for more scholarships
• 2-3 Finish planning my sfu courses
  • At least first and second year to prepare for coop and be ahead everyone else
    • Get recommendations from advisors, peers, current students
• 0:30 create a laws note
  • Something I read at the beginning of each day to prepare my mental
    • Affirmations i guess
• 0:30 Create a taskboard/schedule note
  • Kanban too maybe??

Recurring

• Do said exercise
• 2/d social
• 1-2/d Render obsidian video, social video, upload crying for rain
  • Start new videos if done to clear up storage and record my ideas
• 1-2/d nand2tetris unit 4 and unit 5
  • Wanna finish this up so I can start learning stuff for uni and have time to focus on math/comp sci next weeks

Hobby

Being good at val is fun, but I don’t wanna neglect the rest of my hobbies

• 1-2/d val dm and gameplay
• 3-5 Lube and configure lily58 pro
• 0.5/d Start reading more mangas or watch anime
• 0.5/d VR games

Lead Measures (Skills)

Productive

• Get back to previous steps on stepper
  • Start finding more methods for working out
• 1/d reading
  • Finish bold, plan new books to read, EMPHASIS ON SPEED READING AND RETENTION
• 0:15/d stocks stuff
  • daily posts, personal learning
• 0:15/d MINIMUM mindfulness meditation
  • six phase after :)

Hobby

• 1 game of dm and val a day

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