🔬 Life Experiment 5, 2021

Hey There.

Today I picked up the bank deposit slip that I need to open the company.

Tomorrow I'm submitting the documentation to the local court to approve the company: Life Experiment d.o.o.

Then the new era begins 🔬

Reading material

Sorry, no extra reading material this week. I have two drafts almost ready, but I'm not pulling an all-nighter again to finish them. What went wrong?

I've spent three hours figuring out why emojis are not correctly displayed in Gmail web browser reader and surprise; surprise didn't find the fix.

Sorry, the technical geek got the best of me again 🙁

And also no rendered emojis in the email version of the Newsletter till further notice 🙁

Apparently, there's a reason why all those commercial newsletter sending tools exist out there. But I'm not giving in 🙂

I know I can figure it out. Why bother?

I want to control the main communication channels of my business.

Especially this Newsletter and my website.

🔬 Weekly experiment 4, 2021

Lately, I've been pushing myself slightly too much. If I decrease the number of areas I "focus" at the given time, I might be more effective.

Accepting that you can't work on everything and try out every idea you get is hard. At least for me.

Yup if you're in the right spot with respect to the skill you have and the task at hand you'll be in the zone. Otherwise, pain and struggle ...

This nicely reflects in my current content creation process. It's merely unrealistic for me to be creative enough to produce nine pieces during the workdays.

All I can do throughout the week is read, tweet, and maybe write a few bullet points each day.

Realistically I need to finish the content over the weekend. Then publish throughout the week. Maybe this works.

So what happened on the experimentation and observation front?

• When I'm on PC, my creativity drops exponentially. I need peace and quiet, writing on paper to be productive. It is easy to clear my mind and define the high priority tasks on paper. On PC I end-up procrastinating every damn time.
• I miss the thrill of events, planning, leading meetings. Pressure, the importance...
• I realised that I'm not leveraging enough my project management skills.
• It's pretty cool what you can do in a day if you wake up at 8:00 or even earlier. Where are the 4 am days ...
• Battling with a massive dilemma of saying yes (more next week).
• 2h morning walk with a college. Missed those long morning walks, ...
• It's easier to steer a moving ship than the one standing still.
• My current situation with knowledge consumption makes me so sad. I work so hard, yet due to diffusion produce very few results. (OK results are considerable but they could be larger 😛)
• I identified one of my skills: I'm really good at interrupting.
• If I go to bed after 1:00 I feel groggy in the morning ...
• In life you have to be broad 10 20% of the time, the rest 80% be supper focused on one main thing. If you want to succeed in sth. I think 🙂 Or at least everyone keeps telling me that.
• I yelled a bit at someone close to me yesterday for no reason ... Frustration got the best of me 🙁
• Why do I feel the need to share my story? No clue? Is it all I have? Need to journal about that in the future.

What did you learn this week? About yourself, your demons, qualities, friends?

This Newsletter isn't perfect. But it's good enough (I hope) that it was worth a read 🙂

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

Ziga

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