Workpost 85: Health Challenge
I’ve decided to start on my health challenge today. What does that mean?
- An emphasis on taking care of my mental and physical health above all
- Creating boundaries and emotionally processing any pushback around not making my health a priority
- Certain goals:
- Jiujitsu for 2+ hours every day
- Boxing on the days I can go
- Cooking all of my meals
- Bedtime at midnight
- Reduced or elimination of all processed sugars
- Work comes after health, and is designed to be rejuvenating instead of draining
This health challenge will run from today until the 15th – the day when I travel home. Then I will work on adjusting and finding a new routine.
Today, I want to ponder two things:
- What do I want to post as a video explaining what I’m doing with my youtube challenge?
- How will I support myself healthwise while working to make it rejuvenating?
Youtube Video
- “It’s over. I failed”
- “Welcome back to the 21 day youtuber challenge, my name is Jack you are watching episode 17.”
- “In this challenge, I was supposed to post a video every day for 21 days, and it’s safe to say I failed.”
- “I haven’t posted for multiple days in a row, the last episode actually shot multiple days before I released it because it took so long to edit”
- “The reason is simple, it took 6 to 8 hours to create every video from the ideation, to the shooting, to the editing and that just isn’t sustainable”
- “If I think of the ideal pyramid of life, it looks something like this” (Health, work, youtube)
- “But recently it’s felt upside down”
- “So what’s next? I still want to do the challenge – posting the rest of the 21 videos exploring what I like to make videos about. After all, I have so many more ideas to try out”
- “But I’m not going to release them every day anymore”
- “Here are 10 things I can focus on now that I’m not releasing videos at such a frantic pace”
- “But in those little moments when I have time, I will keep making videos for this series, and hopefully it’ll be magical”
Working Plan
- Focus on only one thing at a time
- Process emotions around rushing or being in a hurry
- Create an appropriately prioritized to do list
- Take a lot of notes when taking a break so I can pick off where I left off
- Timed meditation and off screen time for stronger focus