For the coming 2 months, or 8,5 weeks, it’s time for my second milestone. During the last 8 weeks it was all about logging and scheduling my tasks and actions and slowly expanding it, to see what was possible. Now that I learned a great deal of stuff about about my inner workings, it’s time to do some big experiments. I’m not sure how it will end, but I’m sure I want to try these things out.
I’ve got several self-discipline topics that I want to train myself in:
- Sleep
- Eat
- Read
- Write
- Some business-stuff I will talk later about
- Sports
- Music
This is just from the top of my hat. I’ve been thinking about some additional stuff. But for now, this list is long enough. It’s already a pretty long list. Let’s discuss the points listed.
Sleep
During the last milestone schedule my primary objective was to become an early riser again. This worked fine when I was still working from an office. Getting out of bed each morning at 6 and going to bed at midnight was not problem. Only thing was that I couldn’t cut back on the hours I slept like I used too.
I’m going to try for a sleeping hack to reduce the hours of sleep necessary and still stay highly energized and focused. I’ll write a separate post about this one tomorrow. In short, I’m going to have 4 waking moments per day, and the rest of day will be schedule accordingly.
Eat
The paleo diet worked pretty well for me. At a minimum I weighted around 112 a few months back, but then I stopped with it. I don’t really remember why, but I think it was the amount of work that had to be done with preparing paleo food. Point is, that I’m now back at 122 kilo’s and didn’t even notice it. Purely by the fact of having a wrong eating pattern again.
In the coming week I’m going to do 2 things. In the first 4 weeks I’m going to adapt myself to eating 4 times per day after my 4 sleeping moments. So each meal will be around 6 hours apart. At this phase it doesn’t matter what I eat, it’s just about the number of meals and no snacking or anything between them.
The second 4 weeks will be to bring back the Paleo food. Replacing a meal each week will probably do the trick. I all depends how it goes and I’ll take this from week to week, but maybe I’ll start sooner with implementing paleo meals again. We will see.
Read
Books and new information are important to me. I’m addicted to books and information. But this point is more about serious reading, concentrated reading, in-depth reading, maybe even called studying.
I scan a lot of online news articles with the use of Google Reader. I do this several times per day to keep up with all the latest developments, but in the end these are all articles shorter then 1000 words. Books tell a whole other story.
Book reading should be at least one hour per day.
Write
In the past I already set a goal of 1000 words per day. I’ll continue with this, but I want to make it even more clear to myself. Because I write for several different blogs with really different topics, I sometimes find myself in an IT writing mood and then in Sport writing mood. If I let this happen naturally I sometimes write no sport items for a few days and suddenly write 4 in one day to make up for the loss of the last days.
This way I’m always running behind. So I’m going to make a list of blogs and put behind it how many times a week I have to write for them. the blogs I write for everyday are most important and should be done first everyday. And of course there is my book, but I’ll cover that in more detail later.
- iJorg – everyday
- Shark Freediving – everyday
- The Next Web / Appetite – 3 times a week
- Jorg’s Brain log – 3 times a week
- Life Skills – 2 times a week
- Sharkbait – 1 time a week
- Book – more detail on this later
Business Habits
I’m still working on defying some business habits that have to be made. Got a few, but because they are internal business stuff, it’s hard to put them out in the open like this. I will have to think how to share these, before writing them down. For now I just refer to it as Business Habit, because it consists for now out of 1 business habit.
Sports
Let’s make this simpler than it is. Everyday at least 30 minutes of sports. Got enough stuff to fill it with:
- Running – 3 times a week
- Stretching – 3 times a week
- Track & Field – 1 time a week
- Freediving pool – 1 time a week
- Freediving dry – optional
- Fitness – optional
- Snowboarding – optional
- Swimming – optional
Music
At the core of creativity for me is music. I’m not doing it enough on a regular basis. So again a simple rule. Make music for 30 minutes everyday. Again, enough instruments to choose from, especially now that my son has also started with keyboard. I’m going to pick up my keyboard, guitar and harmonica skills with this one.
Keeping track
The same as the last weeks I’ll keep track of these habits and how it goes. This time a little bit more detail and a day to day basis. Reviewing last week and planning the new week every Sunday evening should do the trick. Expect a post about this week pretty soon!
Last week I finished week 5 of my schedule. It was a strange week, mostly because of the snow and ice, so I couldn’t do my runs, which made me feel bad. But I overcompensated by doing some extra snowboarding.
