Get Productive With Me
Hello everyone I wanted to bring you along with me on one of my more productive mornings. This includes the 4 tasks I'm trying to make into a somewhat daily habit...gym, reading, journal and waking up at 5am. Our habits form who we become so I feel like it's important to look into our daily habits and ask if I continue to do this where will it lead me in 1,2,5 years time.
I hope you enjoy this video and all have a productive week and perhaps share what your morning routine is like or some habits you are trying to incorporate into your day in the comments below. Also please let me know if you would like more of these videos :)
Catch ya later folks
Alisha
**I also wanted to note because I didn't even realise till after that my old iphone 4 that plays my podcasts and music has the wrong time. Promise I wanted starting my day at 2 lol 🙈
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MUSIC
☆ "Days Like These" Music By: LAKEY INSPIRED @ https://soundcloud.com/lakeyinspired
☆ "Outgoing Hikikomori" - Summer Night
☆ "Closing Time" Music By: Jay Man @ https://ourmusicbox.com/
☆ Song: GALLO - We Should Stay Out All Day
☆ "It's Near" Music By: Dj Quads @ https://soundcloud.com/aka-dj-quads
☆ "Watching The Clouds" Music By: LAKEY INSPIRED @ https://soundcloud.com/lakeyinspired
☆ "I Found Me"Music By: LAKEY INSPIRED @ https://soundcloud.com/lakeyinspired
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My daily routine has been the same since the day I quit my day job back in 2011... Wake up when I am done sleeping, work till I am tired, sleep till I am done sleeping, work till I'm tired....
While I'm awake I tend to make coffee (a lot) and we usually buy microwave meals in bulk (and my wife packages up leftovers from when she cooks into ready to microwave meals also) so I can just pop something in the microwave while I continue to work... then go fetch it and eat it behind my PC while working.
I don't celebrate my birthday (or anyone's birthday except my wife who gets an evening out), don't celebrate any public holidays (to me a public holiday is just a day when the shops are closed in case I want to pop out and get something. Real annoying those pesky holidays my wife loves so much 😅), don't visit family, don't even HAVE any friends at all within the entire country... My hobby is my job and my job is my hobby so I have had as many chairs over the past 7 years as most people have friends in their lives! 😅
I went to a self improvement seminar sometime in the last millennium and the guy there said that the worst thing ever invented was an alarm clock. The best alarm clock in the world is your own body. It will tell you when you are done sleeping and THAT is when you were INTENDED to wake up. The only purpose of an alarm clock is to interrupt your sleep, most likely to go to a 9-5 you hate. Alarms are the worst.
Well I am fortunate to say that I work till I want to sleep and sleep till I wake up. Most of the time that means naps twice or three times a day with a full length sleep every week or so but, hey, that is what my body tells me it needs so I'm not complaining. Doing this I get between 12 and 18 hours of work in on any given day.
Whenever I take a week long contract I normally start on Monday and by mid Wednesday I have completed the 40 hours I was contracted for... then I just do the rest of the week because I love what I do 🐱👤😎 One customer got just shy of 70 hours out of me the one week...
Personally, I love my lifestyle. I own hardly any clothes and just switch to something new when the ones I had on go into the basket. Someone stopped me in the mall once to compliment me on my choice of sports team. I looked at him blankly and thought "What is he talking about?" only later to realise my wife had bought me a shirt that reads "I support any team that isn't Australia" 😱😅. Lol. I don't care what clothes I wear and I shave my head so I don't have to worry about hairstyles. Instead, I collect game consoles and just pre-ordered the new Atari VGS within the first 15 minutes of going on sale. "Games and work, except I don't actually PLAY games any more", that is what I would put under "About me" on an application form
To me, it's all about the work and the only thing I would change in my life, if I could, would be to do so in Japan... Heck, then I might possibly (finally) follow my wife's advice and go outside for some fresh air sometime 😅🤔
Thanks for sharing your routine with me. I really admire your dedication to your work and I unfortunately have yet to find the thing I feel that passionate in terms of work in that I can do it for 12-18 hours at a time without feeling like I'm dying 😝Did you do anything before you became a developer?
I think because you also don't give an f about all this external stuff like clothes, hairstyles ect. It probably very freeing because you solely dedicate all your energy to your work. As along as your love your lifestyle that's all that really matters.
I know for me I have a really hard to we keeping to a set routine for a period of time I always want to be changing and doing something new or being somewhere new. I think it's because I fear that life will pass on by too quickly when I'm stuck doing the same thing day in day out. But i suppose it depend if you love what you're doing or not. But when I was working the 9-5 I got so down thinking is this my life? will I be doing the same route from home to work and see the same places and people for the next few years. I feel like I need to keep moving and changing so life slows down because I'm not auto-pilot every day and going through the day. There's so much I want to experience and I never want to be envious of other people's lives. If I see someone living a certain way that I would love I want to work towards that. But it does make it hard to live in the moment and being content with where I'm at. I know ultimately that's the most important thing.