Monthly Archives: January 2020

Daily Blog #7 – Adjusted day

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2017 called… he wants his toy back.

I know it’s already the 8th of January, but according to my body clock, the 7th is only about to end the moment I fall asleep.

Good news, someone picked up and surrendered my 360 camera! I lost it sometime last month during the year end party. I’ve already accepted that it was lost, never to be found but there it is!

No deep epiphanies to day, and it’s okay.

Daily Blog #5 – When the tides are turned.

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I am so used to being on the losing end of a battle. On those rare times when I’m on top of things (like today), I’m not sure if I’m doing a great job of being kind to those who need my help.

Panic works on both directions: fearing superiors, frustration on junior/s. I am starting to understand the necessity of stoicism in self improvement.

Daily Blog #4

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There was supposed to be a video, but apparently wordpress does not allow short clips for “safety” reasons. Too bad, it looked nice…

I can sense the desire to buy new stuff weakening as I minimize my exposure to the internet…especially youtube and reddit. It’s still there. In fact, today, after I found out that Star Wars still isn’t showing in the country until January 8 (because of stupid MMFF), I went to the usual shops: the Apple and Sony stores. To be honest, it was the price of the stuff I wanted that made me not want to get upgrades for the coming months.

Perhaps, and most probably, the desire will not ever leave. I think I need that balance again.

Daily Blog #3 – 0.001 is technically not 0

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My screen time for today is still under 2 hours. Three days without reddit and youtube really frees your mind by a surprising lot. I still tend to bring my kindle without actually reading it, but the amount of podcast I am able to listen to has greatly increased.

Today’s photo is still a far cry from my 2017 365 Project, but that is to be expected for a no-zero-days post.

Any movement is better than ZERO movement.

Daily Blog #2 – Things to be thankful for

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Ayala MRT Station, just before midnight.

“Thankful” is not one of the words you could use to describe me. I’m obviously trying to be positive here. Looking back at 2019, I did have some nice stuff to be thankful for:

  • First time to go out of the country—and did it solo. Not a lot of people would dare go out of the country alone, especially on their first time! But I did!
  • I climbed Mount Pulag at the beginning of the year alongside one of the—if not the—best landscape photographers in the country. While I didn’t get to closely mingle with him, (thanks, social anxiety!) it was still nice to be in the same company with some of the best photographers in the PH. (in fact one of the photographers in our group won the Photoworld Manila photographer of the year award for 2019)
  • Improved the few remaining friendships that I have. While I didn’t gain new friends, I’ve learned to trust—and hopefully gained their trust of—current acquaintances.

Daily Blog #1 – No Zero Days

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This first blog entry for the year will be simple. This is just a list of the things that I plan to do daily for the rest of 2020. And yes, that includes blogging and taking photos.

  • Bullet Journal – write one activity daily. Start and end the day with your bullet journal.
  • Write a blog daily. One sentence will count as a “blog”.
  • Take 1 photo daily. Literally any photo—if it’s good, maybe post it on Instagram.
  • Screen time should be less than 2 hours a day.
    • This means deleting Youtube, Netflix, Twitter, Instagram and Reddit.
    • Did you know that 2 hours of screen time a day is equal to 2 months on your damned phone? Formula: no_of_months = (h * 365)/24
  • Exercise daily.
    • 10 repetitions of any exercise will count as an exercise.
  • Wim Hof breathing exercise. 1 cycle should be fine. This is the only difficult thing in this list.

The point of these tiny goals is to do the bare minimum movement daily. The problem with big goals is that they can be too discouraging for me (or anyone, really).