Let's be havin' you then. Pray tell us, how have your various exploits played out over the last few weeks? Have your goals progressed? Developed? Faltered? Gather in the the company of your fellow strivers and bare all.
Bonus Question: Are these posts actually having any effect on the pursuit of your goals?
P.S. The document of compiled goals can be seen here. Feel free to add yourself if you have not yet done so. If you didn't participate in the past thread(s), that's okay too. You can also join in whenever you like, so go ahead.
Shoutouts, let me know if you wish to be adder or removed: lil nowaypablo, ghostoffuffle, kleinbl00, thundara, veen, OftenBen, lil, thenewgreen, swedishbadgergirl, doesntgolf, blackbootz, Cumol ,ButterflyEffect, kingmudsy
Major milestone met two days ago: 100 followers on my blog. As I say in my celebration post, I didn't think I'd get 5, let alone 100. So I'm actually excited to have carved out that tiny little corner of the internet. I don't really promote the site, minus the occasional post on here or Facebook, and those don't usually get much traction anyways. So that makes it an even bigger achievement for me.
Thanks! I'm honestly not sure. I'm thinking two blog posts a week is a pretty perfect amount for me, so I won't change that, that's for sure. Enough to keep things moving, not enough to overwhelm me. I think the big change might be me moving to a dedicated server, and maybe try a tiiiiny amount of SEO to bring in a bit more traffic, if only because I think people might actually be interested in what I have to say. I don't know anything about that stuff though, so I'm gonna have to do some research first.
Personally, the last two weeks have been one of faltering for my own goals. Both my meditation and coding have succumbed to the greater good of work on my masters. Interestingly enough, I didn't actually put graduating as a goal, but it is now clear to me that achieving a distinction is something I'm really eager for. The last couple of weeks has seen three deadlines come and go, so things got a bit hectic! In that way, a new clear goal has emerged and pushed two other ones away. However, I do intend to restart both of those that have stopped on Monday. I was a bit upset that I lost the 20 day meditation streak I had, but oh well. We can try again. Next goal is 30! The coding had actually started to go well as well and I was beginning to retain concepts, so I better get on it again ASAP. There's no reason I couldn't do that right now. Maybe I should...
I've been really battling a sinus infection over here and haven't been able to focus on my goals with the sort of clarity that I'd like. I've been pretty good about my diet etc. and I've had some big wins professionally, which is great, but I feel completely out of it right now. Like I'm in a giant haze. I've been making a shit-ton of music of late though, so there's that. If it weren't for the music...
I'm not on the spreadsheet, but I've been trying to write every day. And yesterday, I nearly fuckin' missed it. That being said I'm getting tired of/irritated at myself for leaving it to the last minute and scrawling out a shitty poem draft right before I go to sleep. My plan is to use each month as a "level-up," so my add-on goal may be to try and write early in the day/before noon. No points lost if I don't make it, but more purpose and drive and hopefully success behind the goal. Then by the end of the month (Feb) maybe I will find I almost always write before noon/going out each day, and I can add another bead to the string. I'm also trying to average at least 6,000 steps/day (over a week) thanks to the Health app on the new iPhone. I'm blowing the average out of the water but half the point is that it's an average: every day one day falls off and a new, blank one is added on. So I have "high" days and I find myself walking extra as I see those highs fall towards the end of the week. I think it's healthy. I'm going to keep upping the step requirement as time progresses.
Nice one on the writing every day. I generally try to do the same thing with music and it is certainly harder than it sounds. It's definitely worth it though I think. It sometimes doesn't seem fruitful, but I think it helps build artistic discipline and inspiration/motivation to keep going. "A rolling stone gathers no moss."
Crockpot: Still failing Science: Collaboration fell into my lap. I don't deserve it, but it's pretty serendipitous Drawing: It turns out that learning from books is the dumbest way to approach this one. I need to figure out this problem first before I can find time to just sit down and focus on it every. single. day.
> I'm in the early left-brain-right-brain section with little patience for the metaphor of separate functionality. Haha, the whole left-brain-logical/right-brain-creative thing annoys the hell out of me too. I used to draw though, and I remember that book being fairly useful to my learning. I remember its main lesson being "draw what you see, not what you think you see", and I still think it's fantastic advice. It's too easy to put lines on paper without challenging the assumption that those lines are the same as the lines you're looking at.
- Move out of LA We're in Seattle right now, but we'll have to come back. - Rebuild wife's business in another market Met with a realtor yesterday. Oops. Need to call him. hang on. Yes, possibly looking at more real estate today. She's also had four meetings so far with future colleagues and competitors. - Learn WWise & FMod Certified in WWise last time, negotiating with one of my contacts to steeply discount my FMod training. Will check back on Monday. - Add another industry to roster Kind of a big one. Building out a website for the first time in a gajillion years but it takes a while.
- Log into MyFitnessPal every goddamn day Missed yesterday, goddamn it. I fucking hate myfitnesspal. EDITED TO ADD: Need to check out "Recondite" when I have access to headphones. My inlaws' place is so amazingly messy that I've been incapable of finding my f'ing Sonicare for three days.
How's Seattle? Over the last few months I've been getting very interested in living there. Mostly for the music scene, mostly thanks to KEXP.
Talk to ghostoffuffle 'cuz he lives here. But I: - Paid for college mixing in clubs downtown - Designed the sound systems for a quarter of the clubs still standing - volunteered at KNHC for 7-8 years and I can tell ya: I actually feel like going to shows when I'm in Seattle. LA? Fuck everything about that.
Feel like it's tough to recommend any city not New York to a New Yorker. But my two cents: Music scene is great, especially now that it looks like Seattle is climbing out of a two-year "all sixties garage punk all the time" trench. I mean, I like basic, disaffected harmonies floating in a sea of reverb and jangly guitars as much as the next guy, but that shit was starting to grate. KEXP is moving to a new home- it'll mean dick to anybody not living in Seattle, but if you live (or move) here, they're planning on having live shows in the lobby, viewing areas for people who want to watch stuff get recorded (as opposed to tourists just cramming into the control room right now, which has a certain provincial charm, but I don't think anybody'll miss it), and like a cafe and hangout spot or some shit. Should be pretty incredible. Ground broke last week, projected finish is end of 2016 (good luck with that). Anyways, if you're already a fan, that should provide greater incentive. Downtown is beautiful. I've commuted into the city for the past four years, and the sight of the rising sun reflected off the sound never gets old (or more often it's the rising clouds reflected off the other clouds, but I'm a cloud person, so that don't bother me none). Real estate is expensive, but coming from NYC, that probably means bubkes. You'll miss the culture, but that'll be anywhere you move. I personally would appreciate more multiculturalism, less aquavit, but we're trudging in the right direction. Mainly, though, you just won't find the same oomf to the Seattle boroughs that you've come to expect. They're all kind of within cultural spitting distance of each other, with a few superficial differences. It's not bad, it's just... it's not vividly painted. Seattlites aren't the most colorful people. So you get a lot of shades of grey. Literally, figuratively, culturally, morally. That last paragraph should be taken with a grain or two, though. Keep in mind that since we can only afford to live in the burby margins of Seattle, I'm not reaping the benefits of living right in the thick of it. Single twentysomething (er... teensomething) with investment banking experience and a college stipend? Fugeddabaddit. You'd be right in the middle of things, and you'd have a blast.
That was an awesome pair of cents! Thanks! I heard about the new KEXP spot, seems like it'd be a nice place to hang out. As you said, "city issues" like real estate are pretty much void to me coming out of NYC, but I'll realistically be living in outskirts (whatever is relative to Brooklyn or the not-so-stabby parts of Harlem, etc.) so s'all good. The only concern I have is avoiding a state of vague, complacent depression congruent to your weather. To be or not to be Kurt Cobain, that is the Seattle question..
MFP I've been using just to log foods since this. It seems to have a little trouble syncing activities to MFP but calorie syncing works fine.
I totally don't know what kind of site you want to make, but Squarespace is what I would pick if I were creating a new one. I attempted to port my site there but I found out I need the $16/mo package to keep Discussion via Hubski, and I don't have that monies. Still, they have simple templates but also allow you to dig into HTML, CSS, node.js and whatevs.Kind of a big one. Building out a website for the first time in a gajillion years but it takes a while.
Hey, maybe you find this worth checking out: http://www.layerswp.com/ edit: okay so it doesn't support WP blogs - yet. Might still be good to keep an eye on, though.
Professionally, I couldn't be happier. Completed the formal application for my dream job yesterday, now it's just a waiting game. I wrote a sick cover letter and my resume is nice and shiny. Everything else has kind of fallen by the wayside because of school and applying for this position. I've got today to do pretty much whatever I want though, maybe I'll find some songs to play.
I like these threads because they remind me of a core part of my personal philosophy, which is most easily conveyed as I'm sure, as the year drags on I'll eventually feel down and listless, then one of these will pop up, and I'll remember the progress I've made, and where I want to be come january 2016.Very rarely is there anything that you HAVE TO DO
Go running 2-3x a week This is not working. I currently do not have enough time between meditating -> shower/food -> go to work -> come back between 6-7pm -> eat dinner (this is what kills it) -> do stuff that actually interests me/take care of other career options. I thought about trying to wake up even earlier. Went down from 7am to 6:30, is that an advisable thing to do? Meditate at least 5 days a week for 10-15 mins Okay, this one is going pretty good and I feel different. After the introductory 30 days using Headspace, I subscribed for a year and now I am doing the 30 days Focus pack with 20min per session. Absolutely wonderful! Set up knowledge base about MDMA, LSD, Psilocybin and Cannabis Didn't start directly, but some related things happened. Met a psychology student in her masters in a forum. She works with psychedelics in austria. Now we are planning to do weekly Journal Clubs with a psychedelics related publication. She is very enthusiastic, absolutely infectious motivation. Learned alot about the use of Ibogaine in addition therapy. Read Marx - Das Kapital This will fly off my list and be replaced with probably the most important goal. Find a PhD position that suits me/Leave current job
I guess the only way to tell if waking up earlier is advisable is just to try it for a bit. You sound like you've got a substantial amount of stuff on already, so you've got keep the balance. I'm glad you're enjoying the meditation and that you're knowledge base stuff is starting to gain some momentum too.
Graduating: started working ahead and I've read half a book already. I've also applied to a networking foundation, who will give me a small scholarship if I participate in extracurricular activities / lectures and a trip to Rome on top of my Honours programme. I hope I get in, sounds interesting! Running: week 5 almost done. Starting next week the C25K programme Endomondo gives me will pick up some speed, and I'll also have less time to run, so I hope I can keep it up. edit: Ceterus paribus. If Hubski ever needed a Latin slogan, lil...
Talking/listening: think I'm doing okay, but that's a tough one to gauge objectively. Maybe I'll have my wife just tell me if I'm talking too much. Drinking: this is going pretty well. Wanted bourbon the other night, settled for beer. Wanted two beers, settled for one. Rule of thumb I've rested on: if, before my first drink of the evening, I'm already looking forward to the second... I don't have any at all. Part of the whole drinking thing was habituation, anyway. Got used to having a couple while I was cooking dinner, maybe another with dinner... maybe another later, if I was feeling celebratory. Break the first part of the cycle, you break the cycle. So instead of beer, I just pound soda waters with lemon while I cook. Then I'll have one with dinner, but at that point I'm not as interested in keeping the train rolling. Cutting back on meat intake is going well, although I went apes the other night on some really good goddamn pizza. There was pig all over that pie. Felt so right. Getting rid of stuff is easy right now, because we're in middle of house-moving purgatory. Nothing like a good move to make you reconsider your inventory. Turns out, I care about very little of the stuff I own. It comes down ultimately to that which I get the most utility out of (instruments and cookware, mostly) and that which has some sort of history attached to it (a couple wedding mementos, baby footprints'n'shit, childhood stuff). Everything else, I could lose in a housefire and get over it reasonably quickly. Fuck it, I'm putting my TV and Xbox on that list, too, and I'll feel dirty doing it. But everything else can go, and a lot of it is. These posts are keeping me on point, I like 'em.
I get a little sad when people see hubski as a snobby place full of high functioning elitists -- or whatever the current complaint was. When you look at threads like this one, I think we seem so varied, but open-hearted and hopeful. I find the spirit of this thread very moving. Anyway: moving forward on postcards, workouts, and family commitments. Not so good on getting work done. So I'm going to do some now.
I think it's the reoccurring threads like Pubski, Recent music, Grubski, etc. that help humanise and amalgamate everyone, filling in the blanks that are often left with online communities. Maybe on seeing the tight-knit, 'chummy' community mixed with generally more left-field content creates a risk of new users perceiving this as some sort of positive-feedback loop. Unfortunately this is because the latter is likely more common on the internet that a genuine place of openness and acceptance.
nicely put. I have been noticing some new users putting out feelers feelers in the feeling post. Posts like this and the others you mentioned are fairly non-threatening and fun ways to participate.
My goals have changed a lot since this started. I'm going to continue going to the gym two or more times a week and putting in a good workout. I'm also trying to limit my meat consumption to two days a week. Paying off debt and all that is something I can't start until July so my other goal for now is to keep being happy and trying to enjoy life more. I've also added a new goal which is to learn as much about home brewing as I can (briandmyers) and recently bought my second book on the subject.