My Week #150 - 2025 plan
Let's try to plan this year...
🗓 Jan 5, 2025⏳ 0 minutes
Let's try to plan this year...
Let's try to predict what the future brings...
FOS vs FOMO — the battle that should never take place
Let's try to predict what the future brings...
It's Christmas time so I had to use the opportunity to look back a year ago. Usually what I am used to is reading or listening to people proud of what they have achieved in the past year - the idea for that is to feel proud but also to prove and motivate others that lots can be done within a year.
The worst thing about living an organized life is that you have too much time to think which generates conclusions and actions that may lead to both simplification and complication, depending on luck, quality of decisions, ability to foresee the future, or random number generator, whatever fits best.
This was a crazy week mostly focused on the real estate market and decisions to be made. I've already summarized my thoughts on buying a flat for the office in the summary of...
Yet another Sunday, yet another summary time, and, to my surprise, I'm a bit stressed/frustrated since the early morning. My initial thought is the fact that once I checked my plan for the current week I realized that due to very active holiday time, I did not complete anything.
It's natural for most of us to hope to live forever, or at least as long as possible. We dream of reaching the magical age of 100 years, and we celebrate amazing records of people living even longer, looking for the secrets of a long life that only few possess, but everyone else would love to have.
In an ideal world, you sleep for 8 hours, you work for 8 hours and you live for 8 hours. That seems to be pretty fair, right? You give yourself enough time to recharge the batteries, to use those batteries to live an interesting life, and to earn some bucks to spend on that.
For a couple of days, we had a visitor in our flat - a 10-year-old cousin of my children. One thing that stroke me when we ate together was the fact of how slow she eats. It was absurdly slow compared to my family. Sure, she is known as the one that eats very little, but I realized that the speed of eating may have a significant impact on how much we eat and how it impacts our health & physical appearance.
Will I enter the biggest project of my life? Will I define my future place to stay for a longer period? It looks like after years of thinking, discussing & wondering we are about to become the owners of the house in the countryside.
I've finished the investment course. Based on this I updated my financial plan and already started executing the first steps...
Lazy Sunday, lazy, Sunday, lazy Sunday!
We've already had several iterations of HMI (Human Machine Interface). Just to mention a few most important ones - physical buttons on machines, keyboard & mouse for PCs, and touch & multi-touch gestures for smartphones. For a couple of years, it sounded like the next iteration will be the voice control, but it looks like the challenges with natural language and privacy impacted heavily on the low adoption of audio assistants.
After super stressful and exhausting weeks of work, I finally started the 7-day holiday on Tuesday. In the past, I already introduced the concept of the I-need-holidays factor to measure the level of tiredness. It is represented by the number describing the number of days needed to fully relax and enjoy the holidays.
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?
Somewhere deep in my heart, I want to be a writer. This is my kinda dream since I was 19 and I was preparing myself for final exams. The thing is that I always felt too incompetent to start writing. Although, according to my family & friends, my vocabulary and language and the way I write prove that I am a good writer I've always felt the barrier. 21 years later I still feel barrier. It's stupid, but for me writing something is like setting in stone the opinion and my desire to write perfect things makes it sooo difficult to define a perfect and fulfilling final opinion I would be proud of.
Sometimes, once you look back to the week that has just passed by you realize that the week was much better than you would expect it to be. Great, unexpected progress is always welcome, especially after a series of tough weeks. I am happy that this is related to a New Year - this is always a nice boost to New Year's resolutions.
Let's try to predict what the future brings...
It's Christmas time so I had to use the opportunity to look back a year ago. Usually what I am used to is reading or listening to people proud of what they have achieved in the past year - the idea for that is to feel proud but also to prove and motivate others that lots can be done within a year.
Winter has arrived in Poland. The first days of winter are extremely difficult due to both drivers and roads being unprepared for the winter to come. Freezing rain, roads not covered with salt or sand, summer tires on some cars - that's the reality we all have to face in the first days of real snowy winter.
Winter has arrived in Poland. The first days of winter are extremely difficult due to both drivers and roads being unprepared for the winter to come. Freezing rain, roads not covered with salt or sand, summer tires on some cars - that's the reality we all have to face in the first days of real snowy winter.
Recently I heard some advice that although making a list of goals is the first step towards reaching them...
Short days and long evenings encourage you to spend more time at home rather than outside, eg. reading books.
The current time is crazy. November also does not help to recharge, this is why it's tough sometimes to keep the energy at the appropriate level. Of course, the one way is to fall asleep and wake up around March, but that's the easy way.
The reason for `4hour.me` project is to make a progress in my life. One of my observations during weeks of this project is the need to focus and constant struggling with distractions that slow me down.
It's been four years actually since my butt hurt me last time from working too much in sitting position. Four long years of work, mostly from home, still in changing positions - sitting, standing, moving around, with back hurting after standing too much but never with butt pain.
Procrastination is very popular explanation for lack of progress. It's sooo easy to get disturbed when the big chunk of work is looking at you waiting to see how you try to tackle it. Oh, it's a pure fun for the chunk to see you fail even to start a task.
Being alive can have so many meanings. For me, actually it means that after positive heart tests I returned to running. It also means that after couple of difficult work days I joined a project that seems to be super tailored to my best & current knowledge and it lets me instantly develop with the speed like I was in a project for at least some weeks.
For years I am used to think about myself as the healthy one. I try to live active live, I am on a pretty good diet, I limit sugar & alcohol, I've never smoked, I sleep like 8h a day. And then, suddenly, organism says that something is wrong...
Consistency, persistence and patience - the big three needed to reach goals. But, here comes the counter three - creativity, responsibility and helpfulness - and they don't like the big three. They want to be the three to rule me all.
Have you ever tried to measure how good your work-life balance is?
The whole blog is all about `reaching goals`...
I'm currently on holidays so this ain't gonna be typical post describing the progress towards building great dev company of one. Holidays gave me no space for working progress, but also gave some space for thinking and doing some cleanups. One of the things that needed cleaning up was ~50 cards in my mobile Safari browser kept `for later`. This list of course grew for months.
So, I was born and lived for first 23 years of my life in Cracov, Poland. They say that we are very traditional people. We are so traditional, that if something happens twice in a row we call it a tradition. For second week in a row we have very small celebration - this time related with finishing first milestone of `Consider it done` app. How could I did not admit that it slowly becomes a tradition to celebrate something? 😜
You could call this week a total failure.
You are at the edge of your forties and you still feel that you mostly live not you life but adopt your life to someone else's life. Do you think this is your problem, problem of the other person or simply toxic relationship? To be honest, as it stands for today I believe that any kind of toxic relationship is mostly cause by ourselves cause we allow for this situation to happen and to last.
Actually the best moment to go on holidays is the one when you say that you don't have time for holidays. Lack of time sits inside your brain, keeps you stressed and tired. There might be couple of medicines for that but probably the best one is taking a break and having holidays, even if short ones.
Ain't it that simple? When you have plenty of time you have wider perspective, sometimes focus on things you just like or wanna do, not the things that are the key ones. But, in the other scenario when you are actively seeking for a bit of time to make any progress you start focusing on essentials - cause they actually matter most.
Each decision has the feature, which might not be visible at first, but usually becomes visible once we feel remorseful some time later.
Actually, I like learning. It may sound weird but I like to know a lot, even if just on the basic level. Still I feel that every topic has multiple layers, like an onion. You start with scratching the surface, but under it the complexity rises up to the very detail level. Some people spend whole live diving deeply into one topic, some people prefer just scratching the surface of many of them.