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I'm not at home, such a shame

Kiith Soban wrote: βFri Apr 26, 2013 7:31 pmIsaak, I've got a question. I haven't posted anything else in this thread because I've been so busy lately it's been hard to even find enough time to post. There's also the fact that I've been rethinking my life a lot recently and my action plan is going to need some restructuring, especially in order to fit my schedule. Can I give up on the challenge for a while and come back and retry it as soon as I'm done rethinking all that stuff, or is it going to get finished as soon as it's, well, finished? Because in that case I might have to either give up on it for good or try to do everything I missed during the next few days.
Encountering an existential crisis early-ish in life and coming out the other end a much much much better person.
Learning how little I know. Learning what really matters and what doesn't as much.What are some of the most important lessons you've learned?
My ongoing discovery of what/who I am, my abilities, my limits. And also my learnings about the world.What experiences have shaped your thinking
1. It's never too early or too late to grow as a person.what would be advice you would give other people?
I'm a kind of big squeeing fangirlfor Merlin Mann (aka The Inbox Zero Guy, 43 folders guy, the Hipster PDA guy, etc Yes that's his name. His parents were hippies. These things happen.) the Inbox Zero site links his podcast 'Back to Work'. http://5by5.tv/b2w
I've been utter shit at being "Hey you should listen to this awesome podcast!" but I've been a regular listener since 2012 or so starting from episode one. It's largely Merlin and Dan rapping about the nature of work, why Inspiration is kinda bullshit, organization, and productivity porno. Merlin is also this old timey Mac Guy that does a lot of writing and I keep getting reminded of Headless on this site.
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Episode 5 is a good starting point.
http://5by5.tv/b2w/5 "What Can't You Ship?"is probably the biggest take-away from this.
Also for more Career Chat and Self Employment Chat I'd recommend 'Quit!' on the same podcast network '5by5'. It's a call in show. Maybe not 100% applicable to the early 20-somethings here but I like listening to others talk about their problems.
http://5by5.tv/quit
Nightsong wrote: βMon Apr 29, 2013 10:02 amWell, it turns out I didn't have it. I have real trouble motivating myself to do anything on Sundays. So I'm down an hour of exercise and two hours of reading. This week, I am going to make sure I get them done earlier in the week. I'm also marginally less busy this week, so that's good. More time for challenge stuff.
I'm not really satisfied with my life map / goals. My ideal life was very... impractical. In the real world, I can't work 4 jobs. I can't make my friends move to London. I can make new friends in London, but that's not exactly the same. Anyway, this is what I came up with.
Feels good, man. I feel a lot better than I did at the beginning of this challenge. There's still a bunch of stuff I need to work on, granted, but things don't feel as impossible as they used to.
Hi! wrote: βTue Apr 30, 2013 3:30 pmDay 14:
Heck yeah. An excuse to post pictures of my awesome apartment. I'm a bit behind, but 15 is a pretty big one, so I'm gonna do that either late tonight or tomorrow, as I'll be recovering from a root canal this afternoon, and I'm not sure how positive my introspection is going to be.
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The next challenge is going to be a fairly big one, and I'm kind of behind. Like I did the last two challenges today, but only partially. Regular schedule will resume tomorrow!
That's a toughie. The easier of the options looks to me like trying to meet a goal and seeing if it brings positive feelings. For the sake of the experiment, I'd suggest setting something relatively simple, maybe a goal that you can accomplish in a week.Nightsong wrote: βWed May 01, 2013 10:10 amDoes anyone else struggle with changing your goals a few days after you made them? I'm only on day five and already I'm looking back at the action plan I made on day one and I feel largely apathetic about all of the goals. This is something that happens to me frequently. I try to set goals and work towards them, but I lose interest in those goals, set new ones, then lose interest in those. It's something I've been struggling with for months and I'm not sure if I should just pick one goal and stick with it until I've done it to see if that triggers some kind of positive reinforcement, or if the problem is that I'm apathetic about every goal I've set so far.