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GTD Weekly Review June Week 1 2021
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Weekly Progress
Tasks
Notable-Impact
- Finished reading the plateau effect, read summary of “make it stick”
- Gave calculus hand-in
- Went to the beach, chilled, and went to my first ever party outside of my friend group
- Made outlines for 3 obsidian videos, started video editing process for literature notes video
- Fully caught up in social and math
- Started studying for ap exam
- Barrons practice exams and flashcards
Moderate-Impact
- Brainstormed structure for encryption program
- Continued with javascript.info learning
- Continued with workouts (except for core)
- Watched fmab 7-32
- Got sfu computing id, started planning schedule
- Got vaccine!!
- Finished INFJ writeup
Categories Assessment
Productive
- Reading
- First “meh” book I’ve read, might have to read some reviews before diving into a book
- Sometimes the conslusion is all you need to read
- What I did with “make it stick”, as suggested by someone
- Sometimes the conslusion is all you need to read
- Book applications have been super insightful :)
- First “meh” book I’ve read, might have to read some reviews before diving into a book
- Videography
- Spent majority of my weekend working on video
- Getting faster at the video-making process :o
- Spent majority of my weekend working on video
- Socializing
- Am super proud of myself for being able to chill and have fun with people considering it’s been months since I was in such public social situations
- Social Studies
- Caught up, did my social verbal quiz at the beach lmao
- Integral Calculus
- Doing practice questions has been super useful
- Scheduled missed exam for tuesday during lunch
- AP Calculus
- Remember most of the stuff, but still gotta work towards figuring out the things I don’t remember
- Have been using Barron’s practice exams but they’re quite different from the ones on the AP practice exams so I’m not sure if I should be doing them
- It’s more for a general understanding rather than preparing for the exam, which is weird since the latter is what the advertise
- Flashcards have helped with refreshing ideas and remembering what I don’t know
- Exercise
- Gonna switch workouts up to prevent acclimation, really wanna introduce the outside portion, but during 17 minute breaks?
- Might just include ways to stay fit during breaks
- Gonna switch workouts up to prevent acclimation, really wanna introduce the outside portion, but during 17 minute breaks?
- JS
- Not as much progress as I would have liked, but atm there’s other priorities so it can wait
- Scholarships
- I think I should just stick to ones I have a good chance of winning, as I’ve won 0/5 of the ones with results so far xd
Hobby
- Anime
- 25 episodes throughout 4ish days of productivity? I’ll take it 😎
Key Metrics
- Productive hours:
- Mon- 8.5
- Tues- 8 (had vaccine that day which took an hour)
- Wed- 5 (vaccine side-effects and beach prep)
- Thurs- Beach
- Fri- Beach and rest
- Sat- 8.5
- Sun- Expected to be 9?
- Total Hours: 39
- Hours average: 5.57
- Not bad for the non-day breaks
- I think 8-10 is the sweet spot for me, any more and burnout is imminent
Reflection
Progress
Did you complete what you set out to do?
- My plans changed following the proposition of the beach days, but I was able to reassess my priorities and am not really lagging on any aspects
- It forced me to evaluate and reconsider my tasks
- Scholarships are out, videography is in
- It forced me to evaluate and reconsider my tasks
Does your calendar (and commitments) match your priorities and values?
- Going to the beach wasn’t a priority, but senior skip only happens once in a lifetime sooo
- All monthly goals except for scholarships are on track
- All personal goals were reached, except for #3 and face touching during the weekend
- I’m conscious of it now so hopefully it’ll be enough
The Good
- Going to the beach
- Good socializing practice, got to catch up with a lot of people and have hella fun
- Making me reconsider what I want to do again
- Maybe a weekly break is okay, as long as it’s social
- Breaks and scheduling
- 52/17 rule is liberating
- Haven’t felt as demotivated and exhausted, and have been still able to hit 8-9 hours without rigid scheduling
- Breaks have also been meaningful
The Bad
- Eating habits
- Starting to consume more junk food again, gonna have to stop myself asap
- Didn’t get to go outside during breaks as planned
Plateaus
- My video production efficiency and quality
- Gotta start using stock footage for uneventful parts of a script
- Haven’t been working much on refining/practicing my story-telling and entertaining skills
The Learned
- As long as I’m getting a satisfactory amount of things done, having more flexible hours will help me burnout less
- 17 minutes is kinda scuffed for somethings soo
Future Plan
Plan
- I’m ready to see some exponential progress this next week
Adjustments/Improvements
- Only eat meals and granola bars, don’t buy anymore junk food or drinks
- Stop touching face
- Incorporate more exercise into my breaks
Tasks
Be throrough in planning!
Productive (Descending Priority)
Essential
- Morning routine max 2/d
- Meditation, stocks, cardio, breakfast, planning day
- Bring meditation to 15 minutes to see how it affects my day
- Reading 1/d
- Read 2 books
- AP Calculus review 1-2/d
- Do 2 full frq sets
- Understand that reimann sum notation thing
- Download test
- Take test
- Keep track of poor topics and revisit them
- Integral calculus 1-2/d
- Take math test
- Start making flashcards for steps and concepts
- Social 2/d
- Stay up to date with homework
- JS 1-2/d
- Half learning half project
- Daily chapters and daily function implementation
- Half learning half project
- Videography 2-3/d
- Hand in project 2 rubric
- Hand in project 3 proposal
- Finish literature notes video
- Explore producitivity video ideas
- What book insights can I share?
Additional
- Scholarships 0.5-1 x 3
- Hand in global lift scholarship
- Finish the future plans scholarship
- Obsidian improvement 0.5-1 x 3
- Book notes organization 0.5-1 x 3
- SFU Scheduling 1 x 3
Breaks
- Chat with people 1/d
- Exercise/Go outside 1/d
- Nap 1/d
- Watch anime 1/d
- Eat 2/d
- Play games 1/d
- Quick cardio every break?
- Socialize/hang out with people once
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