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Journal Week 43, 2025
Journal Week 43, 2025
Thursday, 23th October
EXCELLENT Journal
Four Fields
I've been feeling as though I've been bootlooping for a while now… like there's never enough momentum to really get the habits I'm trying to build online. Especially with work-hunting and French studies this is starting to become a real problem.
Last night I came up with the following time management system, which I'll be trying for a while. In this system, the business of life divides into four fields:
- Body – Care for the physical body e.g. exercise, preparing and eating food, personal hygiene;
- Mind – Care for the mind, e.g. studying, playing games, reading, meditation;
- House – Things concerning not only the actual household, anything of the environment, e.g. tidying up, finances, all manner of chores, administrating digital systems;
- Role – Things as they relate to interpersonal relations and society e.g. family, friendship, neighborliness.
Things are grouped into fields moreso on intention than on activity. Every hour I choose one field to work on, and resolve to limit my activities to that field. I started today with an hour of Body, which included eating breakfast, stretching, showering and brushing my teeth and so on. I write this now in an hour of House, under which I count this writing, after which I will clean up my browser tabs, set hourly alarms on my phone to help me stick to the system, and maybe do some more chores around the website if there's time. I'll probably follow with either an hour of Role (French study), Mind (meditation), or Body (taking a walk and a nap), depending on how I feel.
In principle this system should ensure that I can constrain myself to thinking about only ¼ of reality for only 1 hour at a time.
Cleaning House
#+CAPTION:/I'm not fucking around./
Got rid of over 1500 tabs. Good riddance. I'm sure whatever was in there was totally worth looking at, and I look forward to running into it again. Life's too busy to be hoarding intentions.
Habits autocollapse
YES Meditation
NO Drawing
EXCELLENT Engineering
Added tons of features to the website, primarily to the habit tracker.
YES French
Added 39 words to anki. Started going through Lawless French.
YES Exercise
Walkies
YES Reading
Resumed reading After the Ecstasy, the Laundry.
Friday, 24th October
YES Journal
Luminous.
Habits autocollapse
YES Meditation
NO Drawing
FREED Engineering
YES French
EXCELLENT Exercise
YES Reading
Saturday, 25th October
YES Journal
Thanks to the chickens for laying eggs for me, grass and buggies for feeding those chickens, truckers for transporting them, the people of the supermarket for stocking them, and the electricity company for allowing my induction plate to work.
Went to the forest and farm today. First time printing PETG with the 3D printer – hard to get right. Broke the streak of not drawing! Found out the supermarket stocks fantastic tiny star-shaped gnocchis.
Habits autocollapse
YES Meditation
EXCELLENT Drawing
