This time I have made an exception and
I am delivering both january and february 2018 in the same report. I
basically started monitoring my life with more precision in january
2017. 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 far away from optimal. All the monthly reports are basically
divided into two parts, mental and physical efforts and results.
I had some troubles, especially in
February. I was sick for a week and most of my physical efforts were
in the hold. All in all, I was less active with my physical effort in
february. January was actually a pretty good month concerning on the
physical effort.
Mental efforts and results in
february and january
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 february (january)
- Time I used my laptop/day on average: 286 (285) minutes/day
- The efficiency on average with laptop 64% (59%) 183 min (168min)
- Using OpenOffice/day 71 (65) min/day on average
- Using Ebooks 60 (59) min/day on average
- Refereeing portals on 7 (12min)/day on average
- Online newspapers 6 min (10min/day) on average
- keskustelu.kauppalehti.fi (Finnish financial news portal) 14 min (14 min/day) on avg
- skysports.com 7 min (10 min)/day on average
- Others: about 117 (105 min)/day on average
- Reading physical books about 78min (92 min/day) on average
We can see that
mental efforts TV excluded took a lot of my time, basically now it
was more than 6 hours/day. I used my laptop almost 5h/day. The
efficiency was 64% in february. It was clearly better than my 59% in
january. 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, because the RescueTime algorithm can see things
differently. In february I read non-fiction about 78 minutes/day. And
I read Ebooks about 60 min on average. In january the numbers were 90
and 59 minutes. I was sick for a week in February. That had an effect
on how many normal books I could read. I didn´t have any books for
some days.
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 28th
and it was 100kg, which is the same weight than in the end of
february. I am aiming weight under 100kg before summer. It may not
happen, but close to it is better than nothing. I am very close, but
also in the crossroads. I have had a week of not having enough
exercice and I have to get back to the rhytm. Everything went pretty
well, until I got a flu. I haven´t lost any weight for couple months
and I hope I will not get back to my old habits.
My nutrition is
still not good enough. I could eat better. The amount of crap has
diminished a bit. I ate crap only in four days in february and
january. I am not good in eating vegetables. My preferred food is
whole wheat pasta and chicken. That is my main dish. I eat it almost
every day. Most often my second dish for the day is this same whole
wheat pasta with either red meat or fish. I havent been drinking any
alcohol since the end of august. I am trying to have a whole alcohol
free year. 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 am pretty confident I can manage a year without
alcohol. I haven´t still decided what to do after the year. I may
start drinking again, but very seldom. I am not sure yet. I will see
what happens in august.
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. February was a good month, until I got a flu. On average, I was
on the move for 65 minutes per day. 90 minutes is my long-term goal.
I was getting a little more than 80 minutes of exercise. Exercise was
refereeing for two thirds of the time and walking one third of the
time. In january I had about 76 minutes of exercise per day. It was
divided between refereeing and walking about half and half.
I have some
trouble in motivating myself to write this blog. I hope all the
readers have patience to wait for these reviews.
Have a good month!
-TT
