Gentle Velocity

What I Did Well

• I made more improvements to the personal website and basically finished it.
• I am mostly done with the Caliro website. I quite like how Claude made it look.
• I went for a walk with my mom.

Where I Can Improve

• I am not following through on my Taskratchet goal of swimming. It's admittedly too easy to cheat that system.
• I am still eating too many potato chips...but maybe it's okay because I should soon be back in NYC where there's basically no junk food at my apartment.
• I did not follow through on the action to create a metaminder habit for meditation.

One Action for Tomorrow

• Complete reading and meditation earlier in the day. Create a system to make this happen.

What I Did Well

• I made much progress on my personal website.
• I completed three sessions on Focusmate.
• I read the Motivational Interviewing book earlier in the day.

Where I Can Improve

• I can work on going to bed earlier so I don't get sleepy during the day.
• I can set metaminder goals on Beeminder for meditation and exercise.
• I can go outside early in the day to get some sunlight.
• Consider setting up a custom Beeminder habit to ensure you meditate earlier in the day.

One Action for Tomorrow

• Set up a metaminder Beeminder habit for meditation.

What I Did Well

• I swam for an hour.
• I made much progress on organizing my finances.
• I woke up early and did a Focusmate session at 9 AM. It seems the new Beeminder habit may be working as intended.

Where I Can Improve

• It would be good to track my time some other way if I don't want to use Focusmate at a given moment.
• I can get up earlier so I have time to meditate before my 9 AM Focusmate session.
• I can eat less potato chips. I feel like it's too much and I'm worried about getting addicted.

One Action for Tomorrow

• Find a different work tracking tool to use in addition to Focusmate.

What I Did Well

• I continued working on and (hopefully) finished creating an automated Beeminder habit that will help me get up early in the morning.
• I went for a run/walk with my mom.
• I updated my internet blocker system so it's hopefully more robust.

Where I Can Improve

• I can do Focusmate sessions earlier in the day.
• I can do reading earlier in the day.
• I can organize finances earlier in the day.

One Action for Tomorrow

• Get up early enough to complete your scheduled FocusMate session at 9 AM.

What I Did Well

• I was persistent at trying to create a new system to help me go to bed on time.
• I practiced swimming for an hour.
• I spoke with my sponsor after a while.

Where I Can Improve

• I did not do any reading today.
• I did not make time for finance organizing.
• I did not go to bed early.

One Action for Tomorrow

• Prioritize reading and a Focusmate session first.

Habits

Beeminder Dashboard

Projects

1. Organize my finances
   1. Link all accounts to Monarch Money and ensure that future expense reviews are seamless
   2. Review old expenses to ensure there are no fraudulent transactions and that friends have paid you back for shared expenses.
   3. Create a budgeting system in Monarch Money
2. Organize your websites
   1. Create a personal website
   2. Sort out the transition of your long-form blog from Substack to Write.as
   3. Update Pause Pal (mindfulness course) website
      1. Start interviewing past participants for feedback
3. Make progress on startup idea (Free and Open Source [FOSS] Custom Android OS focused on Digital Mindfulness)
   1. Reach out to FOSS organizations for mentorship/guidance on how to do this
   2. Create a landing page for the startup idea for the custom android OS focused on digital mindfulness

Hello everyone, welcome to my blog, Gentle Velocity! 😊

My name is Aditya and I started this blog for two main reasons:

1. I wanted to hold myself accountable in a public way to reach my goals!

2. I wanted to cultivate a regular practice of writing and publishing things online. This blog is meant for short-form writing while I have another blog for long-form writing.

In addition to this daily logging habit, these are some of the tools I'm using to help me stay productive:

• Beeminder
  • This service let's me track my habits and, if I don't keep up with them, I pay a financial penalty. You can see my dashboard here.
• Boss as a Service
  • This is a new coaching service I am trying out.
• Focusmate
  • This app matches you with other people to do time-boxed, focused, virtual co-working!
• Fatebook
  • This site let's you practice making predictions. I think it will help me set more realistic goals for myself. I often find myself setting goals that are unrealistic. Here is one of my predictions.

Anyways, thanks for reading! 😁

May all beings be happy, healthy and safe. 🙏🏽❤️

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