Workpost 52: Exhausted

Today I made some definite progress. Even though I have the exact same feeling of lack of motivation, no interest in working. Wanting to just play games, I felt significantly better, having done spleen chi exercises both before bed and after waking up in the morning. As a result I started working 3 hours earlier than yesterday.

Today, I want to improve upon and refine on the game that I created for myself yesterday.

Firstly, in my walking meditation this morning, some wisdom came to me.

Relaxed > Easy > Fast

This was the wisdom first introduced to me in the book, Born to Run where the author talks about how you run completely relaxed first. Then you make your running more smooth, more efficient. If you are able to make it efficient and relaxed, you WILL be fast.

This is the same thing in Valorant. In your warmups you aren’t instantly trying to one tap everyone. You aren’t trying to do it fast. If you do, you probably are going too fast and the warmup won’t work.

You want to start slow (or even in the Miyagi technique, don’t even follow through with a shot, just track the target). As it becomes easy for you to hit headtaps, then you start to gradually speed up.

I want to implement this in my warmups. First, start off doing intense workout with the aim of expansion. Then focus on some brainteasers (Miyagi, completely relaxed). After a few minutes of that, work on to do list, trying to make my relaxed thinking more efficient and clean. Finally, at the tail end of the warmup, try to go fast. My thoughts are:

• 5 min physical warmup
• 2 min brainteasers
• 5 min todolist
• 3 min buffer

Then for the actual match, I would like to break it up more often with some deep breathing every 5 minutes, like I do with Valorant between rounds.

I realized something about my structure today. I stopped making these posts. I lost my progress with going to sleep on time. I started feeling really overwhelmed and like I never had enough time to do anything, even though I have more time than ever.

What I realized that I love working. Intentional, driven, honest work. I don’t like the work where you have to ignore your feelings, your values, your morals, or your intelligence. But I love the work that is driven at improving yourself, being present, and making enough money to set you free.

I did an experiment when I stopped calling these posts “Profit in Peace” because that name comes from a program that isn’t mine, a program that had a similar premise to what I’m describing (making profit while being at peace emotionally), but it wasn’t actually about profit in peace, it was about selling things on Amazon.

So I’m trying out a new name for these posts. Workpost is my new name for my daily posts that use my blog as a working space for my ideas, businesses, personal development, and creative process.

Tired

Right now I feel tired

My stomach aches like the sour candy left on your teeth for too long

The bleariness drenching my head

Yet I seek

I seek for more

I dream of great profits

And when I wrote

Why I wanted them

“Life can be a magical place”

“And I want to live that life”

It is starting to make so much sense why I often write poems because they are such a good way to express where I am without resorting to logic.

Today I want to focus a bit on two things, AI Consulting and my art research and my art program.

For AI consulting, I want to tackle the first step of my plan which is to make a name for myself in AI.

My focus is primarily Linkedin, Facebook, and Twitter because those are probably the three main areas I will pull clients.

The aim of step one is to build up credibility amongst people that I may contact. It can be credibility with people who aren’t particularly savvy in technology so the content needs to be directed at my potential audience.

In a way, I would like the content to be a preview of what consulting will look like.

I have 10 days to do this step. Counting today that would be until the 27th of February.

Lets break it down further.

Goal: Be known, give preview of consulting

UNIT ONE (3 days): Bootstrap trial and error

1. Make a ton of shit
2. Get feedback
3. Make more shit based on feedback

UNIT TWO (3 days): Harden process

1. Choose my favorite processes
2. Try to pump out tons of stuff
3. Tinker and document process

UNIT THREE (3 days): Pump out content like a machine

1. Make as much as possible (pump out content!)
2. Feedback and reflection
3. Pump out more

BONUS (1 day): Look for automation/outsourcing, try to make as low effort as possible

Switching gears to Art/Creative Coaching, the point of the first 4 months is to change the lives of my clients, and sort of start my group coaching program. I want to use this to increase my rates drastically. The end of this part will be June 18th.

Goal: Change the lives of my clients via one on one, group coaching and any other methods available to me

UNIT ONE (1 month): Take risks, experiment

1. Brainstorm ideas for each client
2. Explore ideas of how to change the client outside of the sessions
3. Bring other people into the mix
4. Experiment with my routine before a session

UNIT TWO (1 month): Reflect on coaching sessions, meditate, innovate

UNIT THREE (1 month): Take big risks with group coaching

BONUS (1 month): Document journeys, testimonials

I haven’t quite figured out the structure for advancing in coaching. It was extremely difficult to come up with things for UNIT ONE and those aren’t even steps and subunits, they are just ideas I can try. I think it is because coaching is such an intuitive thing for me. It is hard to structure it. What I feel I almost need is another coach. Maybe I will build my bot for that and utilize Dan.