October 2017

This is my October´s monthly report about my progress with using latticework of mental models in my life. I basically started monitoring with more precision in january this year. There is no way of doing real conclusions about how things are really working. 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.

Mental efforts and results in October 2017

Most of my mental efforts go to using a laptop, watching TV and reading real books. The latter things are separate, because I also use my laptop for reading Kindle-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 October (September:

• Time I used my laptop/day on average: 264 (242) minutes/day
• The efficiency on average with laptop 52% (56%) 135 min (135min)
• Using OpenOffice/day 52 (52) min/day on average
• Using Kindle 66 (61) min/day on average
• Refereeing portals on 10 (11min)/day on average
• Online newspapers 15min (15min/day) on average
• keskustelu.kauppalehti.fi (Finnish financial news portal) 16min (14 min/day) on avg
• skysports.com 2min (4 min)/day on average
• Facebook 13min (13 min/day) on average
• Others: about 90 (70 min)/day on average
• Reading physical books about 90min (97 min/day) on average

We can see that mental efforts TV excluded take a lot of my time, basically now it is about 6 hours/day. October was a little bit hard for me. At least, mentally speaking. I used my laptop about 4 and half hours per day. The efficiency should be better than my 53% in october. Normal efficiency should be around 60% on average. There is two ways to improve: less crappy action and more efficient action like reading Kindle books more and using OpenOffice more. In october I read non-fiction about 156 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. There has been a little change towards reading Kindle. I still like physical books more.

Physical efforts

My division for physical efforts are sleeping, eating, drinking, walking and exercising. I slept pretty well for the whole month of October. I have no data to prove it. I have too much weight. I measured it in 31^st of ocber and it was 103kg, which is two kilograms less than in the end of September. I am aiming weight under 100kg in the end of this year. It may not happen, but close to it is better than nothing. 90Kg would be better, but it takes longer. My nutrition is not good enough. I eat too much crap. September was a better month than august. I ate crap in six days. (7 in September) 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 October 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. I didn´t have any problems with alcohol in October. I am sure I can manage Novermber too.

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. September was a pretty good month. On average, I was on the move almost for 80 minutes per day. 90 minutes is my goal. Exercise was refereeing for two thirds of the time. I should not really exercise more, but I should exercise 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.

Have a good month!

-TT