I'm targeting a faster 5k time this year. I'm building up to three runs around 5k during the week, maybe one with intervals, and then a 10-15k long run at the weekend. I'll work on speed once I'm at this mileage.
I've found the easiest way to motivate myself to run more is to register for a race sometime in the near future, it gives me a goal to work towards.
The week was a blur. I honestly can't remember why I didn't go the third and final time. Same goal this week, except also going to try and do a better job reflecting and remembering.
2. Complete an outline for a design article
0/5 - Didn't make time to hit this goal.
I'm going to deprioritize this goal for a little while (a month). Ideas for this certainly creep into my mind when I'm taking showers but there are other things I want to focus on right now.
Goals this week:
1. Bouldering 3x
2. Write an extensive pros/cons list for a big career decision. Deliberating this has taken the majority of time and energy outside of work. Looking to make a confident call 2-3 weeks from now.
(3/3) I was in Hawaii last week on vacation with my now-ex but I managed to get 3 training sessions in at Mango Tree Fitness & Muay Thai. Now I'm back in St. Louis and started classes at Watson Martial Arts. My legs are tender but I'm enjoying the 2 hours of focusing on drills and techniques each day.
2. Read a book for 1 hour a day.
(2/7) I started Cruel Optimism on my plane ride back to St. Louis. It's been full of beautiful prose so far.
3. Cook or bake something new every week.
(0/1) I didn't get a chance to cook a meal while on vacation last week, but I picked up a book on Persian cuisine. Let's see how that goes this week.
1. Whoa, you had a breakup last week and you still got in 3 training sessions? I'm SO impressed. I actually am searching for a good Muay Thai place in NYC, used to box and want to explore muay thai.
2. !!!! You must tell me what you think. I'm obsessed with Lauren Berlant. So analytical and yet, like you said, gorgeous prose.
3. How's the book? I don't think I've had much Persian cuisine.
1. Write 250 words per day - 4/7 Not bad but not every day, and sometimes I wrote 500 words and skipped a day…I think I can manage it this week, so I'm going to keep it at 250 words per day and try again. But part of this goal was to try and figure out a writing schedule that worked, so I might condense it to longer word count goals fewer times per week.
2. Journal every day - 3/7 - not great but the three times I did it was really helpful! And specifying that it had to be short was helpful too. Just getting something down rather than worrying about teasing out every little thing.
1. Yes!! Important to be flexible I think. The most important thing is that you're writing regularly, even if it's only 100 words per day. Even if it's literally 5 words a day haha.
2. Definitely feel this, sometimes I journal in the form of notes, so it might be just a sentence or two.
1. Keep the 3x weekly writing 'appointments' I put in my GCal
4/5 - 2 down, 1 to go. Felt like I made huge headway this week just by showing up to write when I didn’t feel like it. Listened to a pod by Nir Eyal that said to do lists are terrible for productivity, to schedule an ‘implementation intention’ instead. So far, so good.
2. 5 x daily logging in my journal
2/5 - feel like I haven’t nailed the right time or positive reinforcement to do this. Does anyone else keep a journal?
3. Swap my terrible nightly TikTok habit for reading
4/5 - Been blitzing books. I’m reading Uncanny Valley by Anna Weiner and it is un-put-downable. Just deleted TikTok, too, it’s a time suck. Apparently the average usage of the app is 90 minutes PER DAY 😳
2/5 I missed 3 days, and the writing wasn’t connecting so I need to keep pushing this week.
2. Work out 4x a week
3/5 Got 2 good workouts in this week (cardio heavy). Aiming to step it up a little more this week.
3. Thread post on Twitter 2x a week
4/5 Completed a thread about Avatar 2 (yeah, the sequel to the 2009 movie lol) and the power couple that scheduled ALL of the MLB’s games by hand and paper and computer for 25 years straight.
4. Volunteer 1.5 hours/day
2/5 Hit this goal only two times this past week. Could’ve done more but I just felt mentally tired.
First week was rough. Feels like my brain was waking up from a long nap, taking its time to stretch. Let’s just see how this next week goes.
1. It’s better this week so far. I kind of found my footing by writing by hand in my journal. Found a thought and kept going. Setting a time goal seems to work better and if I’m tired, I’m usually past 500 words already so it’s still satisfying.
2. thank you omg, the last year with quarantining had slowed much of my activity
3. LOL the thread did pretty well and my threads are all a mess right now; I remember last year tweeting that I’d make this thread fleshed out and it took me a year to get to it (https://twitter.com/eashankotha/status/1396671234243325956). This is where I was picking up from! What’s funny is that I got two more ideas for threads because of this haha
4. Thank you!! It’s like getting up in the morning sometimes. Taking the first steps to start is difficult but once you’re in it, you end up forgetting yourself in the best possible way.
Great to hear things are also better for you this week. We got this!
1. Workout 6 days per week: split days between lifting weights and HIIT workouts on elliptical.
I ended up working out all 7 days. It takes a certain amount of discipline and physical effort to work out daily but because I love doing it, and it both relaxes and energizes me, it is not that difficult to complete my workouts.
2. Meditate 30-60 minutes every day.
I mediated only 3 out of the 7 days. I felt distracted and rushed during the week and I typically struggle to meditate when I feel like this. I substituted 10 minutes of breath work on the days I did not meditate, however ideally this would be in addition to, and not a replacement for meditation.
3. Journal every day. Current writing focus: on what I want to do next career wise and what steps I can take to explore my options.
I wrote in my journal for 5 out of the 7 days focusing on my career and came up with some specific steps I can take that will hopefully lead to some new opportunities.
1. That's amazing!!! Daily workouts have also been a game changer for me, but I completely agree that it takes a lot of discipline because it's just a thing you have to plan around and force yourself to show up for.
2. Definitely feel this, meditating can be really hard for me if I'm feeling more distracted/anxious (though that's when I need meditation most.
3. That's so cool! Sounds like you're going through a transition period with work?
4/5: Didn't exactly manage to get 15 miles in, but kept my running schedule and could ran faster and longer. So definitively a success I would say!
2. Working on my side project:
5/5: Spent most of the weekend working on it. All the time when I think I just got a problem out of the way a new one appears that needs to get solved. While trying to make my way through I realize that there is still so much that I don't understand or just don't know. But instead of beating my self up about it as I often do, I just went with it. I guess I get older.
In terms of this post: Learning to program is the one kinda work related or creative thing since quite a long time where I get really intense about. If I do not manage to solve a problem I am working on I just can't stop thinking about it. I even found myself open my laptop last week while working from home and stealing an hour to work on it again because it just didn't stop bothering me. Sometimes I find myself researching about some topic for hours and suddenly it's already midnight.
3. Learn 10 new Korean words every day:
4/5: The most time consuming part here is not the studying itself, it's the process of looking up a word and adding it to Anki manually. It's really tiresome and the main reason while I slacked from time to time before. But until I'm doing good. Just let one or two days slip so I think it's ok.
1. Incremental improvements = still important improvements!! Glad you were able to get some runs in.
2. What's the side project? Are you learning to program right now?
3. Learning a language takes so much dedication. One big thing on my to-do list that's been there for a while is to get better at written Chinese. But that requires so much rote memorization and I need to really budget the time!!
Yeah I really like to the these compounding effects in action. It’s incredible what you can achieve when you just stick long enough to one thing and keep doing it over and over for a long period of time!
I started learning to program about a year ago but always had kind of an on and off relationship with it. Wanted to get serious about it and eventually switch careers (I work in finance right now) so I study everyday after work. It’s incredible scary and I am doubting myself the whole time. But I hope it will work out if I stick long enough to it.
Yeah! Learning Japanese and getting to a level of decent fluency took so much work. But it‘s a really rewarding feeling. And to know Japanese really helps learning Korean as well.
What works best for me here is to set aside one time of the day to practice vocabulary for example. But instead to fix the time (for example 9 am) it flows better with the up and downs of daily life when you stick it to something time related. For me that’s after I get up and before breakfast (i.e. do it ‚in the morning‘ instead of 9 am). Especially things like practicing vocabulary or characters is a quite mundane task so even if you’re not fully awake yet you can still just sit down and do it. This way you can stay quite flexible and still be able to pursue these longterm goals which take quite some time to yield the fruit of your labor.
I rode 3x! Once with D, once in Oakland, then once on an inside trainer I bought months ago but finally I set up Friday. Feeling really good physically from all the biking and proud. What's helped has been setting myself up for success (got the trainer so I'm not blocked by time of day or weather), having a longterm goal tied to it (bike tour in July) and having a friend to do it with (D) which makes it that much more enjoyable.
3. Read 30 min every day
Technically yes, but should have clarified "read books". 3/7 for this.
2. I ALSO finally started biking regularly again. Biking in Utah -> biking in New York has been a big transition because road biking's so different from mountain biking and I was kind of disoriented by the traffic, but it feels so good to be back at it. And I totally feel you, having a friend (who is much better than me at biking haha) to motivate me is so helpful.
3. Any particular genre of books, or just anything? I've been buying so many paperback books while I'm in the city.
Thanks! Go you for biking in NYC that is intense. Yeah, tbh I don't love biking in the city streets since you have to be so defensive, I'm getting a mirror for my glasses/helmet and recommend it. They're cheap, too. Biking is such a great way to get to know a new city. I love hopping on and wandering and winding through neighborhoods.
For now, working through some design books and then books that have been sitting on my bookshelf too long. My ii book club is reading Canterbury Tales so that's the current priority but generally want to read more fiction. It can be hard to know where to start!
- Spend 4 hours per day learning and practicing data science.
1/5: I started doing it the first two days and then stopped. I think it is hard because the first parts of learning are usually boring, since you are learning the fundamentals of the language, and not problem solving. I think 4 hours per day is extreme for me, I will target 2 hours per day for this week.
- Pray 5 times per day while being present.
3/5: Huge improvement in this part. Know praying feels more relaxing and I feel closer to god. This had good effect on my mentality during the day.
- Exercise 4 times per week.
3/5: Improved, especially that I have not been exercising for a while now. It feels good and rewarding.
1. Keep going!!! 2 hours a day (or even one hour!!) sounds way more manageable. I'm thinking of you.
2. So glad you're feeling more present and closer to God. That's wonderful.
3. Yay!! It's so easy to slide out of an exercise routine, but even getting one workout in a week can get us back on track. I love the feeling of being back in it.
4. Please give me tips. I need tips on sleeping more lol
Ava thanks for the encouraging words, I will do my best to keep going.
I found using the iPhone sleep schedule very helpful. It starts to wind down 45 min before my sleeping time, and as soon as it appears on my phone I start writing my daily journal. I kind of have to have a good sleeping schedule because if I don't my 10.5 hours work day will be awful.
Also I am listening to the book Atomic Habits, and the first few chapters on the power of small improvement compounded overtime resonates with me.
this is good! finished three books (two immensely shitty ones for a review, and Severance by ling ma which was just. incredible)
2. write for at least two hours a day
lol, i held steady until Friday and then fell apart. i did manage to get an outline done so hopefully this week will be better (i have a deadline on Monday so, like, it /has/ to be, lmao).
3. sleep for eight hours a night
held steady until Friday, when I spent most of the night reading Severance. i might make an exception for nights when I'm up reading a really good book?
2/5 - Doing pretty bad here, but on the flipside i have nuggets of something interesting. Been traveling (w/ recording equipment...) but haven't had the energy to get around to unpacking and setting it up before i get back home anyways
Running 4 times per week
3/5 I only ran twice but I had two job interviews that consumed my evenings. I went for a long run on Sunday to make up the miles somewhat.
Meditate every day
2/5 Only 3 days. This is one that probably saves time in the long run so I'd like to build the habit even while busy.
1. Yay!! How long do you usually run each time? I was running a lot in Utah but have fallen off in New York.
2. Every time I meditate for even 10 minutes I'm like, "fuck I need to meditate more." It just resets me for the rest of the day
I'm targeting a faster 5k time this year. I'm building up to three runs around 5k during the week, maybe one with intervals, and then a 10-15k long run at the weekend. I'll work on speed once I'm at this mileage.
I've found the easiest way to motivate myself to run more is to register for a race sometime in the near future, it gives me a goal to work towards.
Last week's goals:
1. Finish editing a podcast
done! podcast is published!
2. Work on a plot outline for 7 hours
only got one hour in, but it's one hour more than i would've done without the group
I've found a plotting method that seems to work better for me so I'll roll with that.
This week's goals:
1. Work on a plot outline for 3.5 hours
2. Work on a coding project for 7 hours
1. Whoa, what's the podcast about?
2. I'm really glad!! Plot outlines are so helpful, happy you got some time in.
The podcast is me and a friend about out interests: technology, social oddities, creativity. Thank you!
1. Go bouldering 3x
4/5 - Went twice, climbed hard.
The week was a blur. I honestly can't remember why I didn't go the third and final time. Same goal this week, except also going to try and do a better job reflecting and remembering.
2. Complete an outline for a design article
0/5 - Didn't make time to hit this goal.
I'm going to deprioritize this goal for a little while (a month). Ideas for this certainly creep into my mind when I'm taking showers but there are other things I want to focus on right now.
Goals this week:
1. Bouldering 3x
2. Write an extensive pros/cons list for a big career decision. Deliberating this has taken the majority of time and energy outside of work. Looking to make a confident call 2-3 weeks from now.
1. Good job!!! 2/3 is great.
2. If it's not a focus right now, that's totally fine. Put it to the side and come back!
Hopefully the career decision deliberation is going well (sounds like you might be making a major change). I'm rooting for you!
The Anais Nin quote reminded me of this one from Ilya Kamisnky; “I must walk on the edge of myself.”
Oh, I love that. Beautiful.
Here's how it's going for me:
1. Go to Muay Thai practice 3x a week.
(3/3) I was in Hawaii last week on vacation with my now-ex but I managed to get 3 training sessions in at Mango Tree Fitness & Muay Thai. Now I'm back in St. Louis and started classes at Watson Martial Arts. My legs are tender but I'm enjoying the 2 hours of focusing on drills and techniques each day.
2. Read a book for 1 hour a day.
(2/7) I started Cruel Optimism on my plane ride back to St. Louis. It's been full of beautiful prose so far.
3. Cook or bake something new every week.
(0/1) I didn't get a chance to cook a meal while on vacation last week, but I picked up a book on Persian cuisine. Let's see how that goes this week.
1. Whoa, you had a breakup last week and you still got in 3 training sessions? I'm SO impressed. I actually am searching for a good Muay Thai place in NYC, used to box and want to explore muay thai.
2. !!!! You must tell me what you think. I'm obsessed with Lauren Berlant. So analytical and yet, like you said, gorgeous prose.
3. How's the book? I don't think I've had much Persian cuisine.
Mixed for me too!
1. Write 250 words per day - 4/7 Not bad but not every day, and sometimes I wrote 500 words and skipped a day…I think I can manage it this week, so I'm going to keep it at 250 words per day and try again. But part of this goal was to try and figure out a writing schedule that worked, so I might condense it to longer word count goals fewer times per week.
2. Journal every day - 3/7 - not great but the three times I did it was really helpful! And specifying that it had to be short was helpful too. Just getting something down rather than worrying about teasing out every little thing.
3. Pilates/exercise 3x per week - managed this :)
1. Yes!! Important to be flexible I think. The most important thing is that you're writing regularly, even if it's only 100 words per day. Even if it's literally 5 words a day haha.
2. Definitely feel this, sometimes I journal in the form of notes, so it might be just a sentence or two.
3. GO YOU.
1. Keep the 3x weekly writing 'appointments' I put in my GCal
4/5 - 2 down, 1 to go. Felt like I made huge headway this week just by showing up to write when I didn’t feel like it. Listened to a pod by Nir Eyal that said to do lists are terrible for productivity, to schedule an ‘implementation intention’ instead. So far, so good.
2. 5 x daily logging in my journal
2/5 - feel like I haven’t nailed the right time or positive reinforcement to do this. Does anyone else keep a journal?
3. Swap my terrible nightly TikTok habit for reading
4/5 - Been blitzing books. I’m reading Uncanny Valley by Anna Weiner and it is un-put-downable. Just deleted TikTok, too, it’s a time suck. Apparently the average usage of the app is 90 minutes PER DAY 😳
1. !!! Showing up when you don't feel like is absolutely the whole thing. Proud of you.
2. Mentioned this above but I think it's a lot easier if you just make it super simple. Like five minutes before bed.
3. I looooove Uncanny Valley. I'm very happy I never got too into TikTok--I just know I can't handle it lol (obsessive personality ftw).
Pretty rough start.
1. Write 500 words/day or 2 hours a day at least
2/5 I missed 3 days, and the writing wasn’t connecting so I need to keep pushing this week.
2. Work out 4x a week
3/5 Got 2 good workouts in this week (cardio heavy). Aiming to step it up a little more this week.
3. Thread post on Twitter 2x a week
4/5 Completed a thread about Avatar 2 (yeah, the sequel to the 2009 movie lol) and the power couple that scheduled ALL of the MLB’s games by hand and paper and computer for 25 years straight.
4. Volunteer 1.5 hours/day
2/5 Hit this goal only two times this past week. Could’ve done more but I just felt mentally tired.
First week was rough. Feels like my brain was waking up from a long nap, taking its time to stretch. Let’s just see how this next week goes.
1. It's okay!!! Keep going. How's this week so far?
2. Proud of youuuuu
3. Wait i'm going to go look at your avatar thread right now hahaha
4. !!! Two times is still a lot. I'm really impressed.
Last week was also sooooo rough for me but this week is going better. Keep going!!!
1. It’s better this week so far. I kind of found my footing by writing by hand in my journal. Found a thought and kept going. Setting a time goal seems to work better and if I’m tired, I’m usually past 500 words already so it’s still satisfying.
2. thank you omg, the last year with quarantining had slowed much of my activity
3. LOL the thread did pretty well and my threads are all a mess right now; I remember last year tweeting that I’d make this thread fleshed out and it took me a year to get to it (https://twitter.com/eashankotha/status/1396671234243325956). This is where I was picking up from! What’s funny is that I got two more ideas for threads because of this haha
4. Thank you!! It’s like getting up in the morning sometimes. Taking the first steps to start is difficult but once you’re in it, you end up forgetting yourself in the best possible way.
Great to hear things are also better for you this week. We got this!
So far, my progress on my weekly goals is mixed.
1. Workout 6 days per week: split days between lifting weights and HIIT workouts on elliptical.
I ended up working out all 7 days. It takes a certain amount of discipline and physical effort to work out daily but because I love doing it, and it both relaxes and energizes me, it is not that difficult to complete my workouts.
2. Meditate 30-60 minutes every day.
I mediated only 3 out of the 7 days. I felt distracted and rushed during the week and I typically struggle to meditate when I feel like this. I substituted 10 minutes of breath work on the days I did not meditate, however ideally this would be in addition to, and not a replacement for meditation.
3. Journal every day. Current writing focus: on what I want to do next career wise and what steps I can take to explore my options.
I wrote in my journal for 5 out of the 7 days focusing on my career and came up with some specific steps I can take that will hopefully lead to some new opportunities.
1. That's amazing!!! Daily workouts have also been a game changer for me, but I completely agree that it takes a lot of discipline because it's just a thing you have to plan around and force yourself to show up for.
2. Definitely feel this, meditating can be really hard for me if I'm feeling more distracted/anxious (though that's when I need meditation most.
3. That's so cool! Sounds like you're going through a transition period with work?
Week 2 Check-In:
1. Run every week for 15 miles:
4/5: Didn't exactly manage to get 15 miles in, but kept my running schedule and could ran faster and longer. So definitively a success I would say!
2. Working on my side project:
5/5: Spent most of the weekend working on it. All the time when I think I just got a problem out of the way a new one appears that needs to get solved. While trying to make my way through I realize that there is still so much that I don't understand or just don't know. But instead of beating my self up about it as I often do, I just went with it. I guess I get older.
In terms of this post: Learning to program is the one kinda work related or creative thing since quite a long time where I get really intense about. If I do not manage to solve a problem I am working on I just can't stop thinking about it. I even found myself open my laptop last week while working from home and stealing an hour to work on it again because it just didn't stop bothering me. Sometimes I find myself researching about some topic for hours and suddenly it's already midnight.
3. Learn 10 new Korean words every day:
4/5: The most time consuming part here is not the studying itself, it's the process of looking up a word and adding it to Anki manually. It's really tiresome and the main reason while I slacked from time to time before. But until I'm doing good. Just let one or two days slip so I think it's ok.
1. Incremental improvements = still important improvements!! Glad you were able to get some runs in.
2. What's the side project? Are you learning to program right now?
3. Learning a language takes so much dedication. One big thing on my to-do list that's been there for a while is to get better at written Chinese. But that requires so much rote memorization and I need to really budget the time!!
Yeah I really like to the these compounding effects in action. It’s incredible what you can achieve when you just stick long enough to one thing and keep doing it over and over for a long period of time!
I started learning to program about a year ago but always had kind of an on and off relationship with it. Wanted to get serious about it and eventually switch careers (I work in finance right now) so I study everyday after work. It’s incredible scary and I am doubting myself the whole time. But I hope it will work out if I stick long enough to it.
Yeah! Learning Japanese and getting to a level of decent fluency took so much work. But it‘s a really rewarding feeling. And to know Japanese really helps learning Korean as well.
What works best for me here is to set aside one time of the day to practice vocabulary for example. But instead to fix the time (for example 9 am) it flows better with the up and downs of daily life when you stick it to something time related. For me that’s after I get up and before breakfast (i.e. do it ‚in the morning‘ instead of 9 am). Especially things like practicing vocabulary or characters is a quite mundane task so even if you’re not fully awake yet you can still just sit down and do it. This way you can stay quite flexible and still be able to pursue these longterm goals which take quite some time to yield the fruit of your labor.
1. Yoga video everyday (it's 20min)
No, but I finally did it today :)
2. 2x/week bike with D
I rode 3x! Once with D, once in Oakland, then once on an inside trainer I bought months ago but finally I set up Friday. Feeling really good physically from all the biking and proud. What's helped has been setting myself up for success (got the trainer so I'm not blocked by time of day or weather), having a longterm goal tied to it (bike tour in July) and having a friend to do it with (D) which makes it that much more enjoyable.
3. Read 30 min every day
Technically yes, but should have clarified "read books". 3/7 for this.
1. Yay!!!! Proud of you.
2. I ALSO finally started biking regularly again. Biking in Utah -> biking in New York has been a big transition because road biking's so different from mountain biking and I was kind of disoriented by the traffic, but it feels so good to be back at it. And I totally feel you, having a friend (who is much better than me at biking haha) to motivate me is so helpful.
3. Any particular genre of books, or just anything? I've been buying so many paperback books while I'm in the city.
Thanks! Go you for biking in NYC that is intense. Yeah, tbh I don't love biking in the city streets since you have to be so defensive, I'm getting a mirror for my glasses/helmet and recommend it. They're cheap, too. Biking is such a great way to get to know a new city. I love hopping on and wandering and winding through neighborhoods.
For now, working through some design books and then books that have been sitting on my bookshelf too long. My ii book club is reading Canterbury Tales so that's the current priority but generally want to read more fiction. It can be hard to know where to start!
- Spend 4 hours per day learning and practicing data science.
1/5: I started doing it the first two days and then stopped. I think it is hard because the first parts of learning are usually boring, since you are learning the fundamentals of the language, and not problem solving. I think 4 hours per day is extreme for me, I will target 2 hours per day for this week.
- Pray 5 times per day while being present.
3/5: Huge improvement in this part. Know praying feels more relaxing and I feel closer to god. This had good effect on my mentality during the day.
- Exercise 4 times per week.
3/5: Improved, especially that I have not been exercising for a while now. It feels good and rewarding.
- Have a fixed sleeping schedule.
5/5: By far the biggest improvement.
All the best everyone!
1. Keep going!!! 2 hours a day (or even one hour!!) sounds way more manageable. I'm thinking of you.
2. So glad you're feeling more present and closer to God. That's wonderful.
3. Yay!! It's so easy to slide out of an exercise routine, but even getting one workout in a week can get us back on track. I love the feeling of being back in it.
4. Please give me tips. I need tips on sleeping more lol
Ava thanks for the encouraging words, I will do my best to keep going.
I found using the iPhone sleep schedule very helpful. It starts to wind down 45 min before my sleeping time, and as soon as it appears on my phone I start writing my daily journal. I kind of have to have a good sleeping schedule because if I don't my 10.5 hours work day will be awful.
Also I am listening to the book Atomic Habits, and the first few chapters on the power of small improvement compounded overtime resonates with me.
All the best! Much love from Oman.
check-in:
1. finish two books per week
this is good! finished three books (two immensely shitty ones for a review, and Severance by ling ma which was just. incredible)
2. write for at least two hours a day
lol, i held steady until Friday and then fell apart. i did manage to get an outline done so hopefully this week will be better (i have a deadline on Monday so, like, it /has/ to be, lmao).
3. sleep for eight hours a night
held steady until Friday, when I spent most of the night reading Severance. i might make an exception for nights when I'm up reading a really good book?
1. Severance is amaaaaaaazing. So many good quotes. Sorry the other two were so bad :(
2. How has this week been so far? Proud of you for doing so well until Friday.
3. God, I'm so far off from 8 hours. If I manage six it's a good day :((((
Check-in:
Write one demo quality song a week
2/5 - Doing pretty bad here, but on the flipside i have nuggets of something interesting. Been traveling (w/ recording equipment...) but haven't had the energy to get around to unpacking and setting it up before i get back home anyways
iPhone recorded scratch intro and melody
https://www.dropbox.com/s/1ucylh1s2952snr/Intro%20%2B%20scratch%20Melody.m4a?dl=0
Hoping to flesh out the structure and lyrics this week and perhaps come up w/ a new concept for the next one
just listened. you have a beautiful voice!!! excited to hear it with structure + lyrics added :)
Some more mumbled melody exploration
https://www.dropbox.com/s/v9xahnwhvqrmyb5/Scratch%20Vocal%20melodies.m4a?dl=0
✏️ Write every day (5/7)
🤲 Volunteer every week (0/1)
🛋 Get therapy (not yet)
🔮 Learn to read tarot cards (not only did I do this but I read for 6 people in one weekend so I kind of crushed it?)
1. Yay you!!
2. Where are you volunteering?
3. I can rec you my therapist if you're in SF!! Not sure if she's taking new clients right now but she's amazing.
4. YOU CRUSHED IT.