Yesterday I started really reading Leo Balbauta’s blog ZenHabits after continued advocation of it by a friend of mine. Its a good blog, really good. Lots of quality stuff in there – amidst a lot of stuff. Maybe that will keep me busy sorting through it all though.
Reading this blog did two things for me. First, it made me realize that I am a much better do-er than teacher. I am happy that my blog is oriented around cataloguing things I am doing rather than teaching… there are so many good blogs out there that can inform you so much about how to do things and get your shit together. I would feel redundent and unoriginal if I were to go about trying to compete with all of them. I can’t imagine how much effort I would have to put in to do a better job. With that being said, do check out Leo’s blog and have fun looking around for other goldmines as well.
The second thing I gained from his blog, for now, was to begin working on a morning schedule. It is funny how the most effective things that you can do for yourself seem to be things you already seem to know. Maybe you haven’t known or motivated yourself to do them, but you hear or read them and you know thats whats right, that it will work. I like that. Anyway, I have been working on getting up earlier; I’m talking from 6 am mornings to 5 am. You’d think that at that point in the morning it would no longer matter… I wish. To me, 6 am is the latest I can get up given my obligations to trading. It is like waking up at 9 for a 9 45 class. Just has to be done. Waking up at 5 will allow me to do those luxurious things in the morning that sleeping in until the last minute just doesn’t let you do. Plus, its like waking up for the sake of being alive and awake rather than because you have to. I know when I wake up with an extra hour on my hands I really end up enjoying my day. I figure creating a morning routine that I ‘need’ to do because it sets my day off right and I enjoy it might force my ass out of bed an hour earlier every day. Here is what I started working on today:
- alarm goes off (in other room): get ass out of bed and turn it off
- take a shower: immediately before I can convince myself of going back to bed
- boil water for tea
- find/prep breakfast or snack for while working
- write down my most important tasks for the day
- throw on some clothes
- get out my door and on with my day
Thats about that, not too special/unique yet but its something. Hey, its only one day into development. Thats that for now. Later.
