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2021-M07

“Your decisions about allocating your personal time, energy, and talent ultimately shape your life’s strategy.”

Purpose

1. Check in on progress towards long-term goals
2. Assess current habits, routines, and daily schedule
3. Do some big-picture planning on key project
4. Make selective choices on future plans

Reflection

Ratings (Out of 10)

Thoughts

Biggest Personal Milestone::

• Saying goodbye to people

Biggest Career Milestone::

• Halfway towards getting monetized on youtube!!!

Most Valuable Lesson::

• I suck at flexible productivity
  • The change in my environment has really changed my producitivity levels

Career Goals Evaluation

#1 - videography

Satisfaction

• got 2/3 done which is suprising considering the other stuff i did

Setbacks

• lack of general productivity and time

Improvements

• flexible productivity, slowly chip at it

#2 - c++ and macm

Satisfaction

• Good until i stopped lmao

Setbacks

• no 1

Improvements

• idek if i need to study macm, shit is easy so far ngl, and what i learn might not even be the focus of the course

#3 - networking

Satisfaction

• did not network productively, but got closer with family and some sfu peeps :o
• Might have found christine and kuya ej!

Setbacks

• Lack of sfu events
• The long ass time since i’ve been with everyone

Improvements

• just gradually do it and don’t put pressure on yourself with family
• do something for sfu lmao

Personal Goals Evaluation

#1 - goodbye

Satisfaction

• im content :)

Setbacks

• lack of letters xd
  • can still do them when I have time :p

Improvements

• find the “why” for doing them, and be in the right mindset to do so

#2 - wellness

Satisfaction

• did not drink much recently
• have been exercising/staying fit rather well ?

Setbacks

• motivation and other commitments
  • don’t know what to do for upper body
    • exhausted from walking around

Improvements

• exercise plan, i’d rather put in time on productivity than building muscle though
• do research for now

#3 -

Satisfaction

• learn to be more flexible throughout the day to chip at my tasks

Objective

• be disciplined to switch gears during idle time to do productive things

Roadblocks

• R: energy and the temptation of social media
  • S: look at my big ass task list, and remember that life is one flow state

Naivety

• i really don’t need mindless media consumption. if i was able to plan every minute of my day I can do this too, even if im an infj

Insights

• ratio of productive downtime
• guiltiness rating

Execution

• create a list depending on accessibility of materials, time alloted, and context

• when found myself in downtime, think about the above criteria and choose an appropriate thing to do to fill up the gap

Reinforcements

• gtd or deep work has something on this
• habitica thing

#2 - FInancial literacy and stability

Helpful

• Save money to start building my wealth

Objective

• Learn some frugal lifestyle habits and practices
  • Thrifting
• Learn the fundamentals of the stock market
  • Using tradingview
  • Terms and patterns
  • Metrics
• Adjust and truly trust my portfolio
  • After I learn the fundamentals
• Consider different possible streams of income and its compatibility with me

Roadblocks

• r: time spent with cousins
  • s: early/night time grind
  • productive downtime
• r: procrastination for entrepreneurial adventures
  • s: start small, look at references

Naivety

• I don’t know how packed it will be but we will see

Insights

• the notes under the frugal/spending moc
• habits/tips applied
• books read, terms learned

Execution

• read along for the ride
• search for and do a trading view guide
• find a reddit post/book about learning trading fundamentals

Reinforcements

• r/frugal, r/investing or whatever it is
• in execution

Personal

#1 - quality time with parents and family

Helpful

• strengthen relationships
• bond with parents before i separate with them :/

Objective

• have no regrets

Roadblocks

• r: productivity urge
• s: i think socializing should be a priority right now. who knows when i will next see people often when uni hits xd

Naivety

• definitely, enough for it to be a goal

Insights

• happiness of my parents, you dont measure this stuff bruh
• rating each day?

Execution

• whistler
• birthday
• out to eat
• cousin excursions

Reinforcements

• recommendations on google
• the plans of other people
• seeing what my parents want

#2 - Rediscover my principles

Helpful

• I need a new identity to help me thrive in my new environment
  • My old one was for my isolated self, but things have changed
• shit is going to be a spiritual experience lmao
• So I can help around the house/prepare for dorm life if I even get in

Objective

• Go grocery shopping and cook 2 different meals
  • Must be healthy and balanced with high protein and low carbs?

Roadblocks

Created:: 2021-05-30 20:34 PM