Workpost 52: Exhausted

Some more thoughts about my brand for AI Consulting:

1. I want it to have a Youth Venture feel
   • Anything is possible
   • Warm and supportive and inspiring community
2. I want to incorporate these ethe:
   • Never compromise on your vision
   • Move humanity forwards
   • Be science fiction (either in philosophy or technology or both)
3. Inspiring thoughts:
   • Make every business like a Youth Venture business
     • Social enterprise
     • Founders feel purpose in what they do
     • Dream big, prioritize vision
   • Ship fire manual
     • AI that pushed the limit of what is possible
     • Creates our science fiction

Today, I have many different paths that I can walk down.

I can focus on work. I can spar with my friend, I can go to jiujitsu. I could try to do it all. But I feel weary and tired from not sleeping yesterday. I feel stressed and pressured, and so I want to focus on a few things.

I suppose, first thing is first, I need to focus on work, because without that I cannot be focused tomorrow. Nothing matters until I get that piece done, and once that part is done, all manner of things are possible.

I did indeed get that done, and I feel extremely proud of the work I did.

These days I feel a bit lethargic. It might just be because I’m recovering from 5ks and need more rest than normal. I also just feel a lot of pressure overall. I see these mornings as a way for me to slowly set up my house, set up my mental space as a good place to work.

I like to go through my to do list, my calendar, and work things out.

On thing that occurs to me when I’m thinking through my to do list is that I’m way to ambitious and unfocused. The point of the to do list is to brain dump and really find the most important high priority thing (using emotional priority not logical priority).

And before I even think about prioritizing, I want to get back to building my house – you are in my house, take risks, be ok with silence, take your time.

Today my main goal is to finish my business cards and website for my art coaching.

Another main system or habit I want to institute, if I miss a time block to do something on my calendar, I delete the event and add it back to my to do list.

I have a new structure I want to propose for my matches.

• 5 mins – pregame win conditions (set my win conditions for the match)
• 15 mins – warmup
• 40 mins – the match itself
• postgame eval (see how close I am to my win conditions)

Match 1

Objectives: Go through todo list and work list for anything quick and get it done or make progress

Win conditions:

1. Speed: how quickly I make decisions and make progress (percentile)
2. Precision: how accurate my decisions are (percentile)
3. Ease: how rejuvenated and relaxed I feel (1-5)
4. Innovation: how creative and efficient “smart” my solutions are (percentile)

Post match review:

I went through the tasks pretty fast and I was left trying to find more work to do. I thought some tasks were super tedious and it makes sense why I didn’t want to do them. I did experience some stress from the sheer speed I was going at and some breaks might have been nice.

1. Speed: 65% percentile, fast but not crazy
2. Precision: 65% percentile, accurate but nothing crazy
3. Ease: 2 I honestly feel kinda tired, maybe no breaks
4. Innovation: 20% percentile, not really innovative at all

I haven’t figure out a way to do the process of downloading statements faster before I started. I didn’t think particularly much about the upwork post before I did it. One thing I learned is a little of prep might go a long way also, some breaks can help.