Time off Mid winter break 2022

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It’mid winter break and I’ve got a week off. In an attempt to maximize my personal development and satisfaction during my time off, by staying balanced, and minimizing my vegetation I’m going to pre-write what I want to get done, and adjust it as I go.

This is a combination of time off, and all the stuff for happiness, which I guess gets tangled up with half of my evergreen notes.

My top priorities:

  • Restart cardio and magic.
  • Figure out tools to create more balance
  • Create moments with the family (and take Selfies of them)

Moments

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Success Stories

  • Wrote up my plan the weekend before.
  • Spent 4 hours on magic, multiple days in a row
  • Did magic for a spectator at a bar
  • Learning a new coin trick that is awesome!

Top Learnings

  • Got done everything I needed at work the week before so had no work baggage.
  • Balance, it’s all about balance!
  • Pre-writing your desires for time off is good and helps you hit it. Need to think through how to have the right goals, not too hard so you feel bad, but not so easy that you feel unsatisfied.
  • Tech/content time before the kids wake up is totally fine.

Relationships

Friends

  • ☐ Catch up with Dave
  • ☐ Do virtual walks with folks

Tori

Private

Zach

  • ☐ Setup a list of things to do together
  • ☐ Ask Zach for an hour data a day, and alternate stuff he wants to do, and stuff I want to do.

Amelia

  • ☐ Setup a list of things to do together
  • ☐ Do something every day.

Identity Health

Magic

  • ☐ Practice Daily
  • ☐ Do a trick for a person #1
  • ☐ Do a trick for a person #2
  • ☐ Do a trick for a person #3
  • ☐ Do a trick for a person #4
  • ☐ Do a trick for a person #5
  • ☐ Do a trick for a person #6

Biking

  • ☐ Bike at least every other day
  • ☐ Take a selfie with the Bicycle
  • ☐ Take Amelia on a bike ferry ride.

Software for Balance

Tech Guru

Shell + Enabling Environment + Python in VIM

It’s something that I’m over invested in, and need to put an upper bound on to let me focus on other things.

  • ☑ Figure out how to highlight and bold italics for markdown files surround.vim, and ask for help.

  • ☑ Got GPT3 connected to VIM w/FZF in the middle, this is so fricking cool, I need to make a video about it!

DENY LIST: Data Analysis - Pandas

DENY LIST: Ranking Systems

Cognitive Health

7 Habits

  • ☑ STRETCH: Update concepts page
  • ☐ STRETCH: Update first things first page
  • ☐ STRETCH: Update Seek first to understand

Blog posts

  • ☐ Read and update Switch
  • ☑ Start a productity post
  • ☑ Update some Sleight of mouth
  • ☐ Merge Anxiety Todo list into some of the blogs
  • ☑ Update search to be an auto complete based search.

Emotional Health

Meditation

  • ☑ Every day for 5 minutes (reduced from 15 so it would actually happen)

750 words/Gratefulness

  • ☑ 750 words Daily
  • ☑ Explored using GPT to summarize, absoloutely amazing.

Physical Health

Statistics

Weight Start: 225 Weight End: 227 Gym Days:

Diet

  • Started exploring potatos, but not really nailed it yet.

Sleep

  • ☐ 5/7 week up at 4:30

Energy

  • ☑ GOAL: High

House and goods

  • ☐ Do a list of expenses and money stuff
  • ☐ Expense all the stuff I’ve forgotten to expense - Sigh maybe in February.
  • ☐ Figure out Tax Audit. Forgot to stick this on the list. That said IRS is reviewing it again, so maybe I’ll wait for that.

Mental quicksand

Staycations aren’t vacations

They will be when you plan them well. OK, this didn’t happen at all – hooray!