01.21.07
Posted in Uncategorized at 9:53 pm by khaled
While most of the past week was pretty solid interms of exercise and healthy eating, the past three days weren’t that pretty. I had a full breakfast on Friday, lunch at Pagliacci’s and a pretty hearty dinner. Saturday I enjoyed a decent breakfast, an unhealthy lunch, and to top things off two dinners. Today, wasn’t that bad, but I was by no means dieting, or even eating well. This is something that I definitely need to address. There are actually two distinct tasks that I need to do, devise a game plan to deal with eating out and devise a game plan for going to house on weekends.
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01.17.07
Posted in Uncategorized at 11:21 pm by khaled
Honestly I am still very proud of myself. I have managed to cook almost every day, and today I even cooked an extra meal to take tomorrow into account. I’ve been ramping up my exercise routine and I think I’ve reached a point close, in terms of effort, to where I was a couple of months ago, before the back injury. I think I will try to maintain this level of effort for a few weeks before I start doing some real pushing, contingent on my back continuing to improve. I think I’ve lost at least 5 pounds, but more important I look and feel enormously better. So at this point the plan is to stay on track with my diet and exercise, not making any dramatic changes but rather just rounding out the edges.
I just glanced over my 2007 goals and they are as follows:
- I will become a healthy eater and an avid exerciser.
- I will become effective in my day to day life, by becoming organized, motivated and focused.
- I will become effective on a social and personal level.
- I will become an excellent, creative and talented engineer.
- I will become an effective activist for the Palestinian cause.
I feel like I am actually executing on the first goal, but not much else. So I should start working my way down the list. The second item on my goals is to become organized, motivated, disciplined and consequently effective. This is a perfect place to focus my attention in the next period of time. The Getting Things Done methodology seems like the way to go, although I worry there is too much overhead and that’s going to make the barrier to entry too high. David Allen recommends jumping in with both feet, committing a big chunk of time to getting everything going and then starting to work the system. Unfortunately I don’t have that kind of time and I won’t have it for many weeks. So to start out I think I might just adopt the policy of collecting all my tasks and reviewing them on a daily/weekly basis. By the time I can make the GTD transformation I would have made some progress.
So starting tomorrow morning I will spend 10 minutes building as complete a Todo list as possible. This is the first thing I will do when I get into the office, before I work on anything else. Yaaay.
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01.14.07
Posted in Uncategorized at 3:20 pm by khaled
So I’ve been in the apartment for a week now. During this week I’ve managed to make some progress in terms of executing on the 2007 contract. Honestly I feel really good about it how much I’ve accomplished. For the the majority of the week I ate really healthy, I exercised every day, generally in the morning despite the freezing weather, and I did a good job at work. Friday I slipped up just a bit because of our weekly breakfast thing and because we took a candidate out to lunch. I could have handled both situations better (portion control), but I didn’t. Oh well, there is no reason to beat myself up over small mistakes such as these when everything else went so well. I’ve also managed to work fairly well, although that is probably due to the fact that I’m starting to do work that I actually enjoy.
The weekend has been a slightly different story. Although I’m planning not to worry about that for now. I think that there are so many bad habits that are associated with the house environment that it will take a bit of time for what I manage to establish in the apartment to be habitual enough to be my default behavior in any environment. The really nice thing is that no matter how badly I fuck up on the weekends when I’m at home, I can always go back Sunday to the apartment and get a fresh start and get back on track.
Moving forward I need to anchor myself a little bit better to my new ways. I’m going to think about for a bit right now.
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