1. Do not start something that you might leave it in half-way. I have wasted most of my time on those things. Leaving half-finished things and a few months later I don't even know 5% of that thing. There is also another factor for doing so,i.e. PERSEVERENCE. I normally tend to give up when things are hard to understand. Saying myself "Ohh. i will do it later" and that "later" never comes to exist. So this point gives out the next point :
2. Finish something to the point at least you remember what u have done by observing 1% of what you have invested in. e.g. If you have studied
ruby for 100 hours about how ruby works and its techniques. After a few months later, you should be able to recall most of them by just studying 1 hour. In a simple plain word "Finish-what-you've-started." For the perseverance part, I think I need to have more endurance mentally and physically (
pt. 9).
3. Be honest to yourself. If you know something is wrong, SEE it as it is, not as you want to SEE.
Outlier said you need at least 10,000 hours
(of conscious learning, not just doing the same thing for 10k hours) to master at one subject. It was never easy. Never kid yourself and don't make it a habit. So the next point is:
4. Change it if you know that u have the better method than the way you are doing it right now. If there is no chance, then keep reminding yourself to do the change when the time comes or
Make one.
5. Do not let your mind filled with small things. There are TONs of big things to be shoved into your mind. But never have big MOUTH about it or else no one will really want to listen to u if the time comes. But how do we do it? What kind of big pictures are you talking about? It depends, coz it is only you who can find out what's big thing for u. Honestly, I still don't know what is my big thing yet. FUCK. Still finding.....
But if i wanna go down one line, i m tempted to press "j". :P6. If you see everything as chellenges insteade of obstacles, then remind yourself that it is that attitude that could raise you to top. I think it's especially important to remember this fact when u really face problems, big ones. Really, People tend to drop, at leat it's true for me, when things get heavy.
7. There are days I am satisfied with myself that I get things done a lot. Sometimes, I get depressed as there isn't much been done for that day. I think the latter comes a lot than former. Anyway, I wanna raise the ratio 30(sa):70(un) to reverse 70:30. So what do i need to do? Then the next comes to my mind:
8. First things first. Yes. For example, if you allocate 2 hours to play and 2 hours to work. Which one u do first, if it is me, i would play first then do the work with half-assed mind, not with the whole heart. Well that's just me. I m not judging you. Doing so will also used up all of my energies in the first thing (playing). So when I get back to work, I have little energy left to concentrate. It is true especially for no-exercise, sitting-all-day-long guy like me. Yeah... which makes me to the next point:
9. Fucking exercise. It's painful. It makes my muscle ached. It literally kills me. But we have to do it to live as we are supposed to or longer. Yes we have do it if we don't want to end up a few years later diagnosed with Heart-attack, diabetes, (
type any disease here).
10. I need to make myself calm down. Not to get too much emotional. Focus on the present and do most of the things with undistracted mind. As you can see, it is difficult to do so. But we have the way to tame our wild wanderous mind. Meditation. Yes it's meditation. That's what I m gonna to do for ADD/anxieties anyway. Sometimes, I hang around youtube for some good 30 min or so. Singing along songs while enjoying youtube mtvs also calm my nerves. PPL who can't enjoy music wouldn't find it that way effective. So find your own way. Do it when u feel stressed, frustrated or feel like need to charge your battery.
