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Time Tracking Report: September 2020

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In this month I spent more time with my family than in the job. However, I decided to distinguish a project from the lot and name it Bathroom . The Bathroom project includes activities like pissing, shitting, shaving and showering. I wanted to know how “productive” I was in the WC. I also grouped some projects into a bigger one and called it Invest in myself . This task includes activities like praying, conscious self talk, self analysis – or what David Goggins calls live Autopsy(c)-, studying and skill learning. Time Tracker September 2020

How Important is Health to You?

How does pain feel when you can not avoid it? I am at work. One hour later I feel my head like trapped in an iron fist. I can no longer concentrate on the computer. I asked for a sick leave. Some minutes later I shivered the whole way to the metro station. It is starting to rain. I still shiver. In the metro I still shiver. I try to slightly move my body and fingers with the movement of the metro, so that people don’t think I have some Corona symptoms. I arrived to the terminal station. Still shivering. But now I am strangely aware of my joints in my legs. I could feel them bearing my weight with each step I take. Shit I could not even stand tall. I had to make a choice: either take the bicycle home or walk at a very slow pace. No. I am not going to take the easy path. I am going to ride the bicycle. You know those days where all the stupid stuff happen to you? My bicycle was all wet with rain and I found one tire of completely flat. I arrived home, changed my clothes in a time sp...

Time Tracking Report: August 2020

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What’s new to notice in this month is that I spent more time commuting than eating. Normally I have the same commute track every day. So maybe I spent less time by eating because I ate quicker during August.. Time Tracker August 2020

Time Tracking Report: Juli 2020

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In this month, I still slept most of the time. Job still occupied the second place. I dedicated more time to my family than to eating, which is great. However, I added the Commute Time project, which came before the Wasted Time project. So I need to consider leveraging the commute time . Time Tracker July 2020

My New Workout Routine

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I wrote in a previous post that I dumped P90X, although I used to practice the P90X routines for years, without changing anything to my diet. Well that led to the fact that I did not notice big changes in my body, let alone in my physiology. I was always lacking energy and feeling drousy most of the time on weekends. Still, in the early days of my new journey in Germany, I continued doing P90X, sort of maintaining some level of a healthy lifestyle. But deep inside, I was not satisfied. I needed a new workout routine. For that matter, I imagined a list of criteria that must satisfy my new workout routine. What my new workout routine should look like the ideal workout routine for me should: focus on increasing energy, cardio health and overall body shaping be tried and tested by hundreds of people before me lead to a body shape that I want to have, or at least approach to have. not be some get six-pack abs quick scheme not exceed 30 minutes per day not require external accessories like j...

Time Tracking Report: June 2020

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This is my first time tracking report using Boosted app. In June I slept a lot. I’ve wasted 36 hours, ate for 35 hours and practiced religion for 20 hours. Time Tracker June 2020

Why I stopped Believing in Personal Development

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Part 1: the naive student From 2007 till mid 2019, I listened to audio programs or video shows of the following motivational speakers: Brian Tracy Abraham-Hicks Larry Winget Tony Robbins Robert Kyosaki Eric Thomas I used to think those guys had massive success in their life and wanted to share their wisdom with the world through audio books. But then I looked nearer and I got disappointed. Here is what you can read about them in Wikipedia : Don’t you spot the common trait among them? I neither read nor heard of them having some big real-life achievements, besides scoring best-selling books or seminars. All of the mentioned above are either authors, speakers, seminar gurus or all of it. And by the way, over the years I realized they seem to have more or less the same stuff to teach. I had only ephemeral success with either one of them. Nothing permanent. I had even almost all of Tony Robbins material, from Personal Power to Get The Edge, and I did not have the drive to explore the...