Timeblock
| Time (PST) | Plan | Reality |
|---|---|---|
| 0000 | SLEEP | |
| 0030 | SLEEP | |
| 0100 | SLEEP | |
| 0130 | SLEEP | |
| 0200 | SLEEP | |
| 0230 | SLEEP | |
| 0300 | SLEEP | |
| 0330 | SLEEP | |
| 0400 | SLEEP | |
| 0430 | SLEEP | |
| 0500 | SLEEP | |
| 0530 | SLEEP | |
| 0600 | SLEEP | |
| 0630 | Making lattes and breakfast | SLEEP |
| 0700 | Meditation | Making lattes and breakfast |
| 0730 | Reading: Hold Me Tight | Meditation |
| 0800 | Morning routine | Reading and Eating breakfast |
| 0830 | Spaced-repetition | Hanging out |
| 0900 | Stretching | Morning routine |
| 0930 | Meeting: Mixpanel meditation | |
| 1000 | Spaced-repetition | |
| 1030 | Maintenance: Notion Tasks | |
| 1100 | Work: Notion Tasks | |
| 1130 | Work: Data Classification Tasks | Cleaning/cooking |
| 1200 | Lunch | |
| 1230 | TV: John Oliver | |
| 1300 | NAP | |
| 1330 | Work: Data Classification Tasks | |
| 1400 | Meeting: Admin Weekly Sync | Work: Data Classification Tasks |
| 1430 | Buffer | Work: Data Classification Tasks |
| 1500 | Buffer | Work: Data Classification Tasks |
| 1530 | Meeting: Therapist appointment | |
| 1600 | Meeting: Therapist appointment | |
| 1630 | Stretching | |
| 1700 | Cooking: Fried soy curls | Stretching |
| 1730 | Cooking: Fried soy curls | |
| 1800 | Buffer | TV: YouTube |
| 1830 | Music with wife | TV: F is for Family |
| 1900 | Gaming: SSBM | Cleaning/Hanging out |
| 1930 | Hanging out | Shower/maintenance |
| 2000 | Hanging out | Gaming: SSBM |
| 2030 | Winding down | |
| 2100 | SLEEP | |
| 2130 | SLEEP | |
| 2200 | SLEEP | |
| 2230 | SLEEP | |
| 2300 | SLEEP | |
| 2330 | SLEEP |
Entertainment
The planned entertainment today is:
- Book: Hold Me Tight
- Lunch TV with wife: John Oliver
- TV by myself: not planned but if possible will watch K-On!
- Article: Premortems (Twitter thread)
- Evening TV with wife: probably Twilight Zone
I've already read some Hold Me Tight this morning. Not really entertainment, per se, but is something I do for myself. Same goes for article reading.
Meditation (Day 25)
This morning's meditation was pretty solid. I was at peace not looking at the timer on my watch. My leg flexibility is also notably increasing. Which I think is why my legs did not lose circulation today. The zafu also helped, but losing circulation still happened with zafu.
I have recently been reintroduced to the concept of flow, and because I'm addicted to meditation, my mind wanted to connect the two. The practice of meditation feels like learning to induce flow, I think. The properties of flow sound a lot like what you're doing in meditation:
- intense focus on the present
- the past and the future are not concerns
- free from distractions
- don't care about what other people think
- rewarding to the point of inducing intrinsic motivation
(I have added the conditions of flow to my anki)
The first three are what you're training your mind to do. Number 4 is unimportant to meditation, but is an aspect of it. And number 5 is how you maintain the habit of meditation.
I am finding that meditation is unlocking the ability to enter flow on the object of my attention. I think. It is limited in scope, but I can get I think an hour of flow on a given thing in a day (work is obviously my main focus right now).
I think I can do 1 hour per given thing in a day, maybe, as long as the different things are significantly different. For instance, I believe I enter flow when doing music stuff with my wife. I may also be entering flow with spaced-repetion now (I have noticed it has gone from taking up 30 minutes to taking up a little over 15 minutes).
This is partly related to my hypothesis for why meditation has improved my energy levels throughout the day. A focused mind spends energy only on what it is focusing on. A scattered mind seeps energy from all of its resources, zapping energy. It is similar in result to what The Mind Illuminated defined as dullness ("scattered attention seeping into the void, zapping energy").