Day 42 🔥 Today: Win - continued to make good progress towards my weekly goals, specifically working on assignments today. however the processes are definitely slipping. im no longer paying as much attention to my processes as have been, it seems my mind is more dedicated to the work that has to be done rather than maintaining the system. I need to get back into that habit of finding those incremental improvements, then focusing on them religiously for a few weeks until they become habitual. Sleep is now an interesting one. I forgot to set my alarm last night and i slept for approx 9h. i think i may actually need more than my current 8h to be fully rested. probs should be in bed alr considering im waking up in about 7.5h. Tomorrow: uni day + anniversary tmr so potentially zero time available for work. would be ideal to get some of my psyc assignment done but not going to be too demanding. Just want to use idle time well and get through a lot of my book.

Day 41 🔥 Today: Win - Rly bad allergies in the morning but managed to recover and had a really productive day. Launched the pilot program by sending messages out. Slight cause for concern in that I wasn't strictly following the timings of the timeblock plan, it was only because of overestimating task time that i was able to get back on track. Also need to do a better job of allocating goal end points for each task so I know exactly what needs to be done when the timer rings. Tomorrow: Continue to make another plan, ensure every item has clear goal posts, and use a timer to ensure i remain on task

what would a successful week look like - launch the pilot program before I feel fully ready and just dive headfirst into the imperfection of it all and begin to sculpt and reshape as we go - finish the lean startup and create implementation intentions based on the teachings which apply to this idea of MVP launch - finish and submit all iminent assignments well ahead of schedule (weekly responses for SS, psyc case study, and SS physics report) - improve my utilisation of idle time to more productive means (either embrace boredom or learn new ideas to be implemented as outlined in weekly review 20 september) - find at least 3 things that can be improved within my coaching to rocket me towards that state of complete confidence in my coaching abilities by October 27 - continue to make the daily wrap up a focus where i consistently reflect (this may need to be systematised more so its more step by step) - trial pre-testing + immediate practice questions following encoding

It was an exceptionally busy week where I had limited time available to me to complete the tasks that I wished to get done. Monday and tuesday were both very strong days in terms of work which I attribute to removing things that do not serve me. Attempting a modified protocol that I saw in the youtube video to embrace boredom and remove distraction was beneficial but I found it very difficult to pursue, potentially to the point where the mental bandwidth i was expending on following the protocol would have been better spent elsewhere. Having said that, there may just be a learning curve involved where the rewards only begin to appear as I follow the protocol for a long enough period, which coincides with the protocol feeling easier and more natural. Something that I have identified as having near supreme importance especially on the days where I dont have complete time freedom but rather have committments to balance around is utilising idle time. Currently, a small amount of idle time I endeavour to remain bored and reset dopamine levels ie in the car, but majority of the time if the idle time is extended I will be doing something unproductive, either social media or reading fiction. Reading is better overall but still isn't actually that beneficial. I would do better to remove fiction aside from before bed as a means of unwinding. Now if i seek to remove those to, my options are either to consume something more useful and productive like non-fiction audiobooks or podcasts; or else seek to remove all distractions entirely pursuant to the protocol outlined before. The benefits of productive media would be giving me new ideas and expanding my horizons, but at the expense of clogging my mental ram meaning my creative and deep work will be hampered as my brain will still be semi focused on the new ideas (task residue). As such, im lead to the conclusion that each have their pros and cons, and thus my approach should be a hybrid. I require that thoughful, clear state that occurs when I seek to conserve mental ram, but I also need to be presented with new ideas occasionally. I thus need to create my own protocol to begin to follow that captures the benefits of each at the times that I require them. This will be situational and thus I think it would be best to have some general frameworks but to leave the specifics to the daily plan. I think in the times before I have a large amount of time open to work I need to leave my mind empty so I don't get overwhelmed with thoughts but rather can dedicate my focus to performing what I know I need to. In the times where I do not have to perform deep work ie commuting to uni on wednesdays, I would benefit from new ideas and having the time to let them work away in the back of my mind without having to force them away to pursue deep work. I think another big thing that is hampering my progress is that I feel constantly tentative to just do rather than continue planning. This causes things to stretch on for way longer than they should. for example with the coaching, its taken me a lot longer to get to where i need to be compared to what it should have. I need to improve upon my ability to just dive into things quickly and figure it out. Finally I am concerned to a relative degree that I am not giving my all to my ventures currently. I'm not currently sure what to think about this, i feel that i require additional external calibration here. the new audiobook should help here. would i benefit from bringing alex aboard?

@Aaraya S when you say you continually have to come back to basics, why do you think that is? is the situation that you can never get to the complex content because you never understand the surface level things? or that you get through all the information, but when you do revision you struggle so you feel the only thing you can do is try to relearn the basics again? if this is the case, do you find that when you try to relearn everything seems fine? To me this sounds like an encoding issue that comes from ineffective note-taking. have you tried upgrading your encoding?