Life Hacks I tried in 2024
- Jazz/year chart. I make a spreadsheet. This makes me see careers and the width of recordings per year.
- New 10 Projects 2-page spread.
- Protocol at the end of the hour
- Monthly area "clean up".
- The Things that are Saying Choose ME! and Daily Checklist: Repair, Explore, Build
- My weekly playlists to Todd and Larry have genre themes that rotate monthly.
- Comprehensive Clean Up of all areas. Start recording where everything is in Google Keep.
- Monthly mindfulness "focus" (awake, gladness, clarity, equanimity, connected, etc.)
- Begin a Ted Kooser file of poems.
- More serious workout: pull ups (5x3), kettle swing, bridge, plank (in Aug and Sept, I'm doing Hinge foot exercises and am doing 9x3 pull ups.
- Creativity is a Volume Business (Kleon)
- If you wanted to notice 10,000 things each year, you'd need to do 28 per day;
- If I wrote a poem a day, from here on out, it would get me to about 10,000 by my actuarial death
- do 4 things each day: make, build, repair, connect
- over the summer, I made a chart, based on 11: read, exercise, garden, maintain/repair, explore/adventure, make/build (chart consists of the days of the month on the left side and those words as headings)
- car snack: sugar snap peas and green beans from the garden.. mindless snacking
- Some ideas that never materialized: write 10 "books" each year, each one containing 10 sub topics - recipe book - 10 categories, 10 best recipes for each; poetry book - 10 poets, 10 poems each, poetry book (25 each for spring summer, etc.)
- index cards 10x10 (p.88) (10 meditation teachers (1 per card) with ideas from them on each card; top card TOC), when I do year review, use cards to index - one card for people, music, books, do the same for teaching ideas (10 topics, 10 ideas on each), cards for "audit my shit" or 100 things I learned or interesting ideas, facts, images,
- another idea that never materialized: what is the idea of the week? recipe of the week? quote of the week?
- another idea that never continued: record daily - 5 "images" from the previous day
- another idea never continued: 365 days of X.... what's worth a yearly habit building (in previous years I'd thought of brief habits - 10 days in a row or 10x10)
- Began reviewing year early - start with April in Sept, did May and June in Oct, July, Aug, Jan in Nov... (missing others). But next year, I should do Jan-Mar in April.
- Similarly, do blog index thru year, similiar 3-month spans.
- Set the timer for sunset each day;
- Review day's notebook (field note notebook), circle some of the events -- best of? most alive? proud of? highlights? Time Well Spent
- During day's review, see if there's a "daily theme" of what I observed/noticed (old people together, hawks, inspirational things?)
- "The easy version"... get started, prototype the thing, do the easy version immediately
- take time to list "my current teachers".... this could be each day, each week
- In fall, I began reflecting on a daily question (of 7)... had them in the back of the daily journal
- Grout cleaning paste - apply paste of baking soda, add hydrogen peroxide, scrub.
- Weight-lifting that I begin in Nov: bulgarian split leg squats, shoulder press, flies, curls, goblet squats, bridges with weight, rows (from ground), swings (between legs), sit ups, "salutes" (raise weight straight in front),
- Instead of New Year's Resolutions, write a letter to yourself (Fast Company)
- Alan Jacobs Weekly Review
- Do Hard Things and Be Less Boring
- Mr Elf - for when you feel at loose ends and have a few minutes
- Implementation Intentions - and why timeboxing works
- Implementation Intentions again - from a different source
- Agile Results
- Decide on Your Unit of Measure
- Burkeman: In the Place You Actually Find Yourself and Less Planning and More Doing
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