This is my Deember´s monthly report
about my progress with using latticework of mental models in my life.
I basically started monitoring my life with more precision in january
this year. There is no way of doing real conclusions about how things
are really working, yet. I have some goals for arranging my life and
I am still pretty far away from optimal. All the monthly reports are
basically divided into two parts, mental and physical efforts and
results.
I had no real change in December. All
in all, I was less active with my mental and physical efforts in
December than in other months this year. It was to be expected.
Christmas has always been a time, when I have done nothing. This
December was not an exception. It doesn´t mean I should have lived
that way.
Mental efforts and results in
November
Most of my mental
efforts go to using a laptop, watching TV and reading real books. For
monitoring laptop usage, I have RescueTime program which shows how
much time I use for using OpenOffice, reading Kindle books and flying
through different websites, emails, etc. I do not measure my time
watching TV, at least not yet. But I am timing how much I read
physical non-fiction books. Here are some results of using laptop and
reading physical books from November (October)
- Time I used my laptop/day on average: 266 (149) minutes/day
- The efficiency on average with laptop 63% (52%) 135 min (135min)
- Using OpenOffice/day 71 (29) min/day on average
- Using Kindle 41 (41) min/day on average
- Refereeing portals on 7 (7min)/day on average
- Online newspapers 11 min (6min/day) on average
- keskustelu.kauppalehti.fi (Finnish financial news portal) 16 min (9 min/day) on avg
- skysports.com 6min (5 min)/day on average
- Facebook 1min (3 min/day) on average
- Others: about 51 (50 min)/day on average
- Reading physical books about 90min (103 min/day) on average
We can see that
mental efforts TV excluded took a lot of my time, basically now it
was about 6 hours/day. I used my laptop about 4 and half hours per
day. The efficiency was 63%. It was clearly better than my 56% in
november. Normal efficiency should be around 60% on average. It seems
to me I have improved, but I am not sure if my new laptop has
something do with it. I have a different browser in use now. This can
explain something. I have to see what happens in January. In December
I read non-fiction about 90 minutes/day. I can probably read a little
more, but I should be more focused than I am right now after a
certain amount of reading. The quality of the non-fiction books I
have read could be better.
Physical efforts
My division for
physical efforts are sleeping, eating, drinking, walking and
exercising. I did not sleep that well in November and it continued in
December. I cannot really think any obvious reasons. I have no data
to prove it. I have too much weight. I measured it in 31st
of December and it was 102kg, which is the same weight than in the
end of November. I am aiming weight under 100kg before summer. It may
not happen, but close to it is better than nothing. My nutrition is
not good enough. I eat too much crap. In December I ate crap in six days. (6 in November) The
definition for crap is too much fat or sugar, or some foods with
white flour. I am aiming to eat crap once a week. I like it and I
don´t think it is too much.
I did not drink
any alcohol in November. I am trying to have a whole alcohol free
year, which started after my birthday celebrations in the end of
august. It is a challenge. I have sometimes been without alcohol for
two or three months. I have managed to survive without it, at least
for now. I will probably have more difficulties during the
pre-christmas parties.
Exercising can be
divided into two things: refereeing and walking. Refereeing should be
my preferred way, but I am trying to have a short walk every day, if
I have only one game. If I have more in one day, I may not go for a
walk. December was not a good month. On average, I was on the move
for 60 minutes per day. 90 minutes is my long-term goal. Exercise was
refereeing for two half the time and walking half the time. I should
exercise little more every month timewise. Exercise could be lot
harder. I don´t believe in any tricks. Hopefully, I can manage all
the changes gradually without major setbacks. I am not perfect and I
must to expect bad progress at some point of time.
I have some
trouble in motivating myself to write this blog. I hope all the
readers have patience.
Have a good month!
-TT
