Life Week #103 - My sacrifice
The forthcoming year is the year when I need to make a significant shift in my career.
🗓 Feb 11, 2024⏳ 1 minutes
The forthcoming year is the year when I need to make a significant shift in my career.
F1 is on winter break. I lost the access to FC Barcelona matches. I completed the investment flat purchase saga. When I am thinking of a hobby I could spend more time on I'm thinking about chess.
There are good habits, there are bad habits. The secret of progress is to build good habits and to destroy bad habits. As simple as that, right?
Last week I wrote about getting bored. The funny thing is that this week I participated in the `plSwift` conference and one of the talks was related to messing around and the side effects of it - surprisingly good side projects.
There is so much happening around that there is actually nothing specific to write about. The daily routine worked great this week with a bunch of good training, everyday long walks, lots of new knowledge accomplished, and a set of chess pieces of training. On top of that, we're finishing a bunch of side projects related to various areas which are also pretty time-consuming.
Daily physical training. Daily lessons of investment course. Daily chess training and matches...
Let me tell you the story of me - the investor to be. For many years now I am somehow aware of the fact that I should not expect a high pension when I finally am retired. After paying attention to the fundamental needs of a nice living space and fair quality of life it's time to think about investing the surplus for the retirement time.
I just realized how my general motivation is correlated with meeting the right people. Some people have a very good impact on my mood before, during, and after the meeting while others have the opposite impact.
I'm back baby! The power is back, the motivation is back, the movement is back, and alcohol is also back 🫢 but the overall effect of the week is super exciting.
Some things you do in your life are quick & simple or not challenging enough to look for extra motivation.
There are so many motivational books, speeches and courses nowadays. And they all contain some guidelines to be happy, to achieve success, to become better every day, to live a great life, etc. Sure, there are many ways to reach the same destination as well as there are many different destinations to reach.
Two weeks after the medical treatment I already feel much better and stronger and more confident when performing simpler daily activities like push-ups or plank.
One of my goals for March was to survive another strike of 2 weeks in a row without alcohol. I think that even writing it in the form of `surviving` exposes the scale of the issue. There are many opportunities in your life to have a glass of wine or a drink - Friday evening chill-out while watching some movie, meeting with friends, visiting family you haven't seen for a while, clubbing with work buddies, celebrating personal successes, birthdays, namesdays, anniversaries, etc.
Finally, after tough weeks of catching form after the end-of-the-year crisis I recently had an idea to check if I am still able to run 10km.
At some point this week I felt like a well-programmed robot of a well-functioning machine. I'd say that I am in a pretty good physical form (one of the best, tbh). Although working hard during weekdays and the weekend, I still find time daily to learn and practice some chess and some other activities. That makes me feel both great and scared.
This life week was rather focused on weekly goals, which is good, right?
The first year of this project has passed by. The first anniversary makes me wonder if this was a good year. If the project I started a year ago actually changed my life? I defining goals for year, month, and week makes it easier to achieve them?
From the live point of view, this was actually a kinda boring week.
What if life was a game of chess? Initially, it seems like it would be much easier...
The problem with weekly summaries is that you try to summarize the whole week and each of the 168 hours of it in one moment based on your current mood and point of view. That of course is far from the average during the week, but well, it is what it is, right?
One of my goals is to improve my chess skills. I knew the rules since I was a child, but never went deeper into the topic. I'm ashamed to admit that, but a trigger to get into the chess again was watching `Queen's Gambit`. So I watched and started playing - offline with my wife and children, but also online on www.chess.com. I also found it relaxing to watch chess educational videos on youtube during home excercises.