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Restarting Design

Monday morning is here and I don’t like it.

I hate Monday mornings. It never quite feels like a fresh start- more like the old one gets loped off and we gotta start from the beginning.

I want to make it so my Monday is a continuation of Sunday – get into something where the work healthily goes into my life all week long. No need to stop something that is constantly in motion.

Maybe I need to start in with a project I own. The plan is to do some design work soon. I don’t know when it will be done, but I hope putting it down on paper( or I guess screen) will get something going.

I have no old work to show to prove what I can do.

I have to rebuild my portfolio – I used to have stuff socked away, but I have deleted and loss passwords to more accounts than even I care to know.

It is going to take some time to get it back, and part of that stops me dead in my tracks. Where will I go, who wants to start fresh after feeling like there was a foundation before?

But that is the thing isn’t it – the way design moves, no one cares about my old work – or my old design, it would be outdated, and look terrible considering what I have done.

Either way, the feeling is damning. I guess I just have to start don’t I.

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Another Saturday – I made it.

I would like to be able to take a shower as soon as I get up.

That is one habit I would like to start getting into, as a method to start my day.

It seems gross….what do you mean you don’t take a shower? Well – I mean I don’t do it as soon as I get up. I’ll lay in bed, go watch TV, talk with my roommate about sports, and next thing I know, it’s early afternoon, and I have to figure out some time to get up and take a shower, eventually delaying my process in getting out of the house.

Work during the week usually forces me to do this, but when I get up early or anything else, I tend to go back to sleep or lay around and do nothing until I am forced to take a shower.

If I can get myself into it this weekend, and build throughout the week, I think it will be one more step in recapturing my day.


Saturday is here, and I am blogging once again. This makes me feel better. Just trying to hatch those routines I do at work into my weekend. Will make me feel better, and I hope eventually take those habits out of work and bring them just into morning.

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Work in Progress

Another day at work, and another learning opportunity.

I am doing 5 habits that I enjoy as soon as I get into work.

1) Checking my bank accounts
2)Reading my RSS Reader
3)Checking IBM
4)Doing my HackDesign Study
5)Opening up Code School.

Once these are done – I seem to be ready for the day, pretty informed, and mentally sharp.

I don’t want to break the chain on this – so I want to learn to do this on the weekend.

This, in addition to writing my three things, and taking a crack at this journal.

Once these things are rooted, my next step will be to refine, and then slot these in a better time period of the day(early morning).

Here are 5 more things I would like to add to this:

1) Exercise
2)Creating a Post in this Journal..
3)Thanking someone via Social Media/Text/E-Mail
4)Meditation
5)Eating Breakfast.

Ill be shooting for this in the weeks to come, once this routine is locked in.

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Deliberate Practice

This weekend was pretty good. I am learning how to do comedy. It is a great feeling.

This week I will be focusing on Work. I want to do this deliberate practice course – I really would like to learn how to focus on deep work.

Ill be paying my bills today and figuring out when I want to do some traveling. I am not sure how this will work, but I really want to see some more of the country.

And that is Monday.

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Sunday – I made this.

I made Sunday.

Applebee’s.
Comedy.
Sleep.
Recharge.

And I hope that’s where I will land. I think I will go to Baltimore this weekend. Why not.

I made Sunday.

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Saturday

Saturday – Trying to get in the rhythm of including the weekend into the week.

There is something about the weekend that makes me want to just relax and take everything away.

There is time to productive here. Hopefully this will be the first start, lets hope there is an update for tomorrow.

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Habit Slowdown.

I am typing this about an hour left late at work.

I didn’t quite do the challenge (Spark Challenge) Tuesday and Wednesday. House guests are here and I got lost in it – I am assuming that is the excuse I used mentally. A part of me is embarrassed to even do anything for some reason. There is a fear there.

No therapy this week, but I started this again, maybe it will help.

I want to make this a habit, and I may just focus on this for now to add on the things I have going on.

Realized I need to start writing on a daily basis, if I do it, then maybe my flow can return.

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Fitocracy Workout

I have started the Fitocracy Challenge –

I feel like this should help me build some muscle. Good news – I already feel sore from day one.

Hopefully ill work myself into some shape and cut a few pounds off in the process.

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