I'm going to start naming my Event Logs to make it easier to remember what I did on each day from now on. I should of thought of this earlier. Oh well.
Today is a special day since I'm taking the first step in laying down the foundations for my success. I created a Master Document with all my plans for the year. It contains a list of all my projects, hobbies, and goals for each of them, along with deadlines for objectives. It took me two days to put it together, mostly because I had no idea of how to organize it. I just laid it all out and went from there. It's a little messy but it's functional. I'm sure with more time, I'll figure out ways to streamline and make it sexy. For now, I just need something that works.
I limited my timeline to next month. This week is going to be my test run. I hardly expect my schedule to be perfect from the start. I'm in the testing phase, and I already know I'm gonna have to make tweaks in the near future, but that's what foundation work is all about. Hopefully, the more I do this, the better I get at it.
When I was still working, I tried to plan each of my days down to the hour. I found out very quickly that it doesn't work for me. So this time, I'm going with weekly goals. This allows me to tackle objectives in any order and ensures that whatever I'm feeling at the moment is best geared towards a certain task instead of forcing myself.
Sundays are my free days when I can do whatever I want, and Thursdays are my flex days. Basically, if, for any reason, I don't feel like doing something for a day, I can swap it with Thursday. It's also a release valve for unexpected events. Maybe my friends want to go out or whatever. This ensures I have enough time to do everything I want without having to push back deadlines.
I think the most important part of laying down foundations is to give yourself a wide berth. I would underestimate my capabilities and allow myself plenty of time to finish tasks. Better to have more time than not enough. I'd say I've gotten to know myself pretty well by doing nothing over the last year. With this, I want to take a step towards fashioning myself towards the person I know I can be. Better late than never, right? One of the things I realized in life is that it doesn't matter how late you start. What matters is where you finish.
Part of the reason I haven't really looked for work is that I wasn't ready. I want to mold myself into the kind of person that organizations would love to have. If I did have a job, I know I could hack it, but I wouldn't be operating a peak efficiency. In my Master Plan, I allowed plenty of room for options should certain goals not pan out.
As for what I actually did today, it can be summed up with one word: nap.
