🔬 Life Experiment 4, 2021

Hey There.

Someone recently told me that I'm too ambitious, too hungry and want to do too much in my life.

It's true.

I juggle multiple projects at the same time. I tried scaling back. I did, but I somehow ended up back with plenty of things to do. This keeps happening over and over again.

A day later, I had a chat with a friend that I've known all my life. After a while, I emphasized that I wished our conversation was more balanced (speaking real estate wise). It was mainly my fault. I talked too much, as usual.

What he said next shocked me (not exact words, my recollection isn't 100% accurate 😉 ):

You do so many different things that are not part of a normal daily life. It's cool, and I love to listen to your stories. It's like when you watch YouTube; you expect to listen, not to talk back. Chat's with you motivate me.

It took me a second to catch my breath. I was shocked and positively surprised where my humility of admitting that I talked too much led us.

After this conversation went much more in-depth, we discussed all sorts of stuff for almost another hour. The discussion was also way more balanced.

So next time someone tells me: You're doing too much, you're too hungry, ... I'll say gee thanks, and keep marching on. Why?

I get so excited when I'm doing all those things. I love it, not every second of it, but 59 out of 60.

I suck at doing one thing at a time. Give me ten projects and chaos to manage, and I'll find order and efficiency in that.

I'm glad that some of my stories motivate others to try new things, to get off their ass. Such feedback fuels me to keep writing and keep trying new things in my life.

Plus this blog is the most effective way of massive communication. It's so true; public writing is the most efficient form of mass communication 🤓 Efficiency 😛

🔬 Weekly experiment 3, 2021

As I was drafting this newsletter, my Mac kindly reminded me of:

Take a guess when I slept, ...

I'm still at 10h+ of PC use a day on average, and that's with no PC Sunday. Acknowledging that I have a wired relationship with technology didn't help apparently, but I'm making an effort.

What else happened on the experimental front? Some observations and things I tried:

• Writing several hours a day is crazy ... but cool 😎
• Crapy meals. Finally dragged my ass to the food market to get something better than the frozen pizza ...
• Trying to figure out why my web page isn't working on some mobile devices. Still no clue 🙁
• It's soo cool to lay on your bally and read some scientific articles full of math 🤓 Gives you an entirely different perspective.
• I'm probably spreading my self to thin again ... I love to write so much, but I might be forced to scale back 🙁
• Started adding time stamps in-front of the bullet journal entries. So cool cause you can then reference notes with: page : time and find them fast.
• Procrastinating ...
• No PC Saturday resulted in a lot of new writing ideas and content. In the first 30 minutes of the day ...

I said it before and I'll repeat it: Experiment to try (If you can afford it): Take a day each week to read, write and reflect. No PC the whole day. It's like magic 🙂

• I also re-noticed how 30 min of writing lifts my spirits when I'm depressed or frustrated. Kudos to the person that invented reflection through writing. I would be broke already if I had to process all that stuff through therapy 🤗
• Sitting in the sun, with sunglasses and reading. They say it's cold outside, looks warm from behind the glass window 😎
• Saying yes and not delivering on everything is starting to resurface again. Not good.
• 30 min nap awesome. 45 min nah too much. I naturally wake up after 30 min, which is something new. Not sure yet why.
• In no mood for watching any movies, series. A bit fed up again 🤷‍♂️
• Act fast on the PC, think slow on paper with pen in hand.
• I realized that I could tap even further into my project management skills that I acquired throughout my scouting years.

It's nothing revolutionary, but it's baby steps towards the future. It's all we can do anyway.

Let me know what baby steps you're taking towards the exciting future.

Reading material

A piece from the last week of writing on developing Personal brand: baby steps . I've started to invest in my online brand (again). Maybe this time, my efforts will last longer than a week.

Yesterday I just finished reading: Girl Wash your face by Rachel Hollis. Sure the book is written for women and mainly addresses their life struggles, but the book contains some precious lessons for every gender.

Another good reading: 5 Mental Frameworks Exceptional People Use Every Day . I know that the title is clickbait, but the content is pretty good.

What exceptional people do:

• 1.) They start from first principles.
• 2.) They focus on process over outcome.
• 3.) They create alter egos when they have to perform.
• 4.) They develop mental resilience.
• 5.) They understand that the biggest successes can come from the most devastating failures.

If those tricks are good enough for big shots like Elon Musk, I guess they are good enough for little fish like me.

I practice some form of 1.) - 5.) because I went through specific experiences in my life that though me those lessons. I'm not entirely sure that just reading about them will be a game-changer for you.

Don't forget to experiment and cheers till the next experiment.

Ziga

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