Daily Entry: July 1st, 2020

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
0700 Meditation
0730 Reading: Hold Me Tight and Eating breakfast
0800 Morning routine
0830 Spaced-repetition
0900 Work: Maintenance
0930 Meeting: Mixpanel Meditation
1000 Meeting: All Hands
1030 Meeting: All Hands
1100 Work: Data Classification Tasks
1130 Buffer Work: Data Classification Tasks
1200 Lunch
1230 NAP
1300 Work: Data Classification Tasks
1330 Work: Data Classification Tasks
1400 Work: Data Classification Tasks
1430 Work: Data Classification Tasks
1500 Work: Data Classification Tasks
1530 Meeting: Seattle Zoom Hang
1600 Stretching Work: Data Classification Tasks
1630 Stretching Walk with wife
1700 Cooking block Walk with wife
1730 Cooking block Cooking
1800 Buffer Eating
1830 Music with wife Anime night
1900 Gaming: SSBM Anime night
1930 Hanging out Anime night
2000 Hanging out Anime night
2030 Winding down Anime night
2100 SLEEP Winding down
2130 SLEEP
2200 SLEEP
2230 SLEEP
2300 SLEEP
2330 SLEEP

Thinking

Cleaning up my tags a bit. Not looking at Twitter is super consistent now. Better to make a tag for when I do go to Twitter, I think. "Practice flexibility" only really needs to happen when something super disrupts my day. It is also not one of my current themes to guide my actions by. It has been internalized well-enough, I think.

Meditation (Day 27)

I'm pretty happy with this streak I've managed. It's not impossible for it to go on forever, but I do assume something will cause me to not meditate in a given day. I wonder what it will be. I have a feeling it'll be a new environment that causes it. Something that alters my default routine. Perhaps a road trip to visit family?

It's not important to never break the streak, it's important to practice diligently. So, when the time comes that I miss a day, remember to "practice flexibility" and try again the next.

One of the biggest relevations of meditation for me was just how often I was fantasizing. Mind you, it didn't always look like fantasizing. It often looks like planning. But it was plans for things that were quite unlikely to happen. This tendency has already been curbed a lot in the 27 days of meditation, and I think it has resulted in me doing more. Now that I don't pretend to do things, the urge to do things is not satiated, and so I... do things.

It's why, I think, I'm so much more consistent writing in this diary. Though, making that connection, I may instead want to write elsewhere.... It may behoove me to be more organized in my writing. Perhaps go for making a real blog....

I've made this an item in Notion to consider.