- Yesterday I over wrote my to-do list and didn't actually estimate how long the tasks would take which resulted in me actually not finishing a decent chunk of it and now it is over loading on my today's list.
- Yesterday my solution to scheduling was good but it pushed my workday to 1am. So I slept too late and woke up pretty tired too. My assessment of how tiring the work would be was off. I could still do it all, but I don't think it would have been sustainable.
- This one is a slightly difficulty one to pin down, but sleep has been a struggle for a while. And it feels like too big a problem (a feature level issue rather than a bug). So, I think breaking it down, I know one thing that is an issue for sure.
I let screen time invade my wind down routine. And keeping it away always involves discipline which means it is an unsustainable solution.
But sometimes, I am sure I will encounter bugs where I don't know the solution.
- Yesterday, while I didn't do binging on my phone on social media, I ended up eating junk food late at night. Not good for the stomach or for my health
- think my yesterday's bug wasn't small enough and I was too solution centred. Which means they yesterday's bug tracking didn't help me resolve the bug at all.So today I think I'd like to roughly figure out the boundaries of what counts as a bug and what needs to be further broken down.
- Have you ever had people whose name popping up in the messages list makes you feel 50% worse than you were feeling? Whole body tenses up and breath becomes shallower.
Sometimes that can really ruin the mood. So that's a bug that I'm dealing with.Solution : being mindful in the moment that I am getting upset and giving myself the minute or so of breathing time, to let the emotion pass rather than tensing my body.
- I had an anxiety attack ish yesterday. Couldn't understand why it happened and it lasted for a while. The sad part isn't that I got anxiety. Sad part is that I didn't attend to it. Somehow I just kept hoping it would pass. Solution: try and do something to soothe physical symptoms of anxiety when it happens, as it happens.
- This often happens that new methods lose their efficacy quite quickly and one thing that I'm realising is, if I don't add all of my task properly in my to-do list earlier in the day into my calendar, I am not gonna be using my calendar effectively. That was what I did yesterday. Solution: try and organise to-do list and calendar within an hour of waking up
- I didn't take my protein yesterday. Which meant I binged a lot more throughout the day.
- This one is a much more mental bug than anything else. there is such a bias in my mind (and Culturally) of a day that starts slightly low energy is gonna stay like that. But that's not true. I didn't do much in the first half of my work day yesterday, and was hella productive with hard problem solving in the second half. This is definitely a mindset shift that I wanna catch myself in, of "this day is crappy"and I suppose "this project is so xyz"
- So, yesterday I started listening to Naval's podcast, and I've binged through more than half of the episodes, and I'd recommend giving it a shot. He pointed out a thing that I think has been a long term bug for me. Price yourself a really high hourly rate(mentally) and then don't do things that are not worth spending that kind of money on. I have generally tried to remove "useless" things from my life, but honestly this is such an added clutter remover mentally.
- Today an observation/in the moment bug solving.
Often when I go to climb, a default assumption is that I am trying to get to the top. Which often makes falling feel like failure. In my last climb today, I just told charu that, ah I'm not expecting myself to get to top because my shoulder is hurting.And then my climbing style shifted to just worrying about where is the next step. It made the climb feel so... effortless. (And I did get to the top, it was an easy route)
- I continue to use my phone and scroll on insta late at night. It has become an integral part of my sleep routine now. Which is less than ideal. The solution that makes sense is to have a better night time routine, but that feels like a feature level problem and not a bug. Unsure about how to break it into a bug level issue. P.s. 500 days is a lot. I'm slooowly realising that. Well too late now.
- Cont. From yesterday's bug, I realised that a lot of times I am just opening my phone up without even realising when I did that. Happens so frequently, regardless of what I'm doing.
Which means, it's not that I'm distracted while trying to sleep. But that everytime I am even slightly tired, I might be distracting myself from it.
So a simple trial for a next couple of days, is to switch from automatic to awareness. Taking a single deep breath every time I pick up my phone.
- Cont. From yesterday, I found it much easier to remind myself to be mindful earlier in the day, when my energy levels were high and when cognitive resources were more. A friend recently had shared that building habits regular way is more than 10x as hard as building them in a play mind space. So now I'm gonna try to figure out a way to be mindful about my phone, while keeping it playful.
- So a long term challenge that I've been tackling is to get regular workouts in, and other than weeks where I fall sick, I've managed twice a week till now this year which is amazing. What is not amazing is that my body's recovery ability is really poor. Eg. my sleep quality is abysmal on days I workout,(among other things) And I don't know what to do about that. Or a more accurate way of saying would be, it's not a "solved by a singular thing" kinda problem.
- One of the things that I realised (possibly due to increased mindfulness) is that a key reason for me to distract myself when I am working on something is when I feel like I don't know how to do the next thing in front of me well. Example from yesterday, I was making a project plan for different verticals for a new game I'm planning(more on that soon) and the moment it came to development work, I wanted to stop planning. Because I don't know how to do it.
- My scheduling system is working great, but I keep forgetting to add food time in my day. Which really ends up upturning the schedule around. In a not very nice way.
- Sleep feels like my nemesis. Especially when I am travelling. Every tiny thing can disrupt it and ofc the schedules of traveling do not serve my weird scheduling either. Unsure what is the solution here, but logging the bug is what I am expecting from myself here, not solving them.
- I think I've known this for a while but I've never really accounted for it in my schedule or planning or system that it takes me about 1.5-2 hours after my last point of socialising before I can sleep. Which means my sleep can get really disturbed if I am up socialising for a long time.