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please put on this music while reading the thread, it is part of the post but i don't think i can upload audio files

Jeru The Damaja - Ya Playin' Yaself (Instrumental)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6maJ-hct_p4

i fought about using calendar for many years but now that i am using a paper system (that would look like a calendar to the untrained eye) to manage my time, i finally feel the benefits of distributing my time wisely again. i experimented with this before, this is me going back to what i have already experienced and after thinking about it subconsciously for years.

to have a banking account as to make sure that all my money is accounted for while not having a way to wisely use the time feels idiotic. time is the currency. money is not currency, money is the impostor. time needs to be spent more wisely then money. time isn't money, money is the dirty trick invented to make people give up their actual currency.

i was very worried that planning my life more would result in me becoming something i'd hate but i am just amazed at how much i get done in one day. i've had too many days where i would get nothing done. 

could be because of the few tweeks i made to the system. i built a custom time planner in LibreOffice and printed out the resulting page 20 times. is nothing but a big empty table that streches across the whole page with the numbers 0 to 23 printed in each line in the middle with space left and right of each hour. papersize is A4. the smaller size A5 was too small, it felt to little room to write something in between the lines.

is there a way to make it better? this system seems pretty good to me. i have a big page BIG PAPER PAGE  for every day that i can collect ideas on what to do next and also keep track of what i am actually doing because the mere act of being mindful of it, trains me to value time more. 

so what i plan to do goes on the left
what i actually end up doing goes on the right
and then i use colored pens to visualize the stuff i want to be mindful of:

how much i sleep
how much i exercise
little ideas i have throughout the day
what i eat when
what i drink
lol i should track how much i poop. probably 2 times a day.

so i hope you can tell this is not just a calendar, it is a calendar that is also a diary at the same time but in a practical sense, not in a "express your feelings so you can keep them alive for longer so you can milk more depression from them" kind of sense.

i dunno how to explain how good this feels, it is just to have a self-created tool that helps me actually get all the things done i wanted to do. just this mindset of valuing time and treating it like the rare precious resource that it and only it deserves to be.

when i was younger i would eat these self-help audiobooks up though i just listen to them the way others listened to music, barely ever implementing anything i had learnt, just being a passive lifeless consumer of the information. this new paper hybrid calendar feels like i finally have some kind of mental infrastructure that i can build upon as to (at least have the option to) practice goal setting. 

i hated the idea of goal setting for a long time but another perspective on it would be to simply value time, treat it like it is everything. compared to how imporant this is, everything else pales. don't worry about how you spend your money before you have taken the time to learn how you spend your time.

what this boils down to in terms of the paper planner is that i INVEST MINUTES into things.

heard some new software i have to look into, 
>i spend 5 minutes on it! (╯°□°)╯ ┻━┻ 
i want to build an appliance because i have gotton so spoiled, the shit i can buy is no longer good enough
>spend 20 minutes on it 💪
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i opened it in LibreOffice Draw (different program, the one i created it in is called LibreOffice Writer) as to display centimeters above and to the left of the page
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i print out enough so that i can just grab a few when i feel like planning without having to print and then, like i did yesterday, i just sit on monday morning drinking a coffee and distribute my time on the things i want to do because i don't think there is another way. trying to do it intuitively did not work for me.
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first i write into it what i did that monday until i sat down to make the plan. keeping track of what i am actually doing seems to be more important then the actual calendar i have noticed. 

it keeps me dialed in into my potential. it helps me to be conscious of what i am doing. thinking on paper because when i make plans like that without writing them down, they are gone the next morning. it is as if i never made them. they just vanish.

lol anothing thing i believe this solves is that whenever i used normal unconscious non-diary calendars, i would quickly ignore them. i would make plans but i would never wonder what my plans were. this keeping track is so mindless, it keeps me engaged into the thing.
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idea comes to mind. what am i doing? i have the planner already open on the table and i merely put them somewhere empty on the page where i know i will be awake, which i can tell really well because i see how i slept the last few days, that's what the teal color is. imagine it was friday and you did this, you'd see a filled array of pages with all the teal color giving you an instant visual on how you slept the last 5 days. always knowing when you have time instantly.

so i just write stuff i have been putting of next to were i have time. so on the monday page if it was 12 now, that would mean i know i could place it anywhere on the pages the next 5 days.

of course i put it into the left of each page, not on the right. right is diary, left is plan.
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whenever i would then actually do something i had planned, i would draw in green to the space on the day when i actually did it. at first i would write the thing once more on the right next to the time when i actually did this but this felt too tedious so i just made color connections.

the reason this is better like that is when you last minute decide to do something else first, you easily can. you don't have to erase something somewhere only to switch it around and have to re-write it into the planner, you see when you ended up doing it.

another thing i did at first was highlite red everything i failed in doing but then i read what i did there and i realized that this was not a failure, this was a change in priority, a wise choice, a solid decision. i just did the thing the next day so i also started drawing these green connections across whole days. the more complex the green connections become, the more days they span, the more i have the receipt that my planning aint shit.
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when i not do something i have planed but see that i did something even better then that because i had a good idea and immedeatly jumped towards it, then i can see this decision being made on paper and then i don't feel disappointed because i did not end up doing what i had planed. i simply do it some other time. this system preserves flexibility and spontaneity, which is something the regular calendar felt like it was preventing. i would have the tasks and then everything would be about enforcing myself to only stick to the plan instead of realizing that a plan that has the ability to change is so much better.

the monday continues and i see how i have gotten into a flow state and did like 10 more things. also i made a poop at 4pm exactly.
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monday was a great day, the time was used wisely. feelings of euphoria and optimism.

but those positive feelings ended up rippeling into sleeplessness. 
mind was racing with thoughts and ideas and there wasn't much sleep.

can you see how much smaller the teal square on the tuesday was then on the monday?

if for some reason you would feel weaker, slower and less able then yesterday and you would try to find out why, you would take one glance at the tuesday on the paper calendar and instantly see that sleep was reduced that day.

the pink color indicates when i ate so i could see it throughout the week. if you were to ask me on friday how i ate on mondy, i could never tell you, but with this i can see my eating habits just from looking at the colors at a glance.
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tuesday was a shit day. managed to get one thing done that was left over from monday and not much else.

when i think back into the past, this would be this early discouraging moment that would make me stop trying to finish something but with this tool, i can at least look at the monday and remember how good it was as to give me strength to hang in there.

i think of another 2 things to do on wengsday and play rimworld.
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wednesday

wangsday sleep was long and restful. you agreed to meeting someone you know tomorrow, wrote it into the planner in yellow. you did not end up doing what you planned but something else that you had procrastinated on way harder. 

it is 12 at noon, the little black mark tracks "looking at the planner", this helps in quickly finding what time it is when filling somethig in.
aw cmon mane you shoved the thread in fit, where nobody ever goes plus time management is not fitness.

i was hoping to learn practical time management from anons.
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>>277
Other option was bant, since on b it will just get lost. I wanted to liven up other boards.
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>>278
>liven up other boards.

this could have been a nice discussion with lots of learning to be had for everyone involved
>>277
I'm not going to solve problems on this site until the enshittification problem gets solved. It would be like shovelling furniture into a blast furnace. All for nought.
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>>280
>enshittification problem gets solved

what does this mean in plain english?
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>>281
Chans are always a race to the bottom. The bottom is the stupidest, most vocal poster who decides to put in the most effort. There's about 2-3 people who are ruining the decorum and quality of the site intentionally doing this, and until we are either rid of them or some understanding is effected the site will be shit.

If I can't post threads without some fuckwit trying to derail them endlessly with theatrics or otherwise, I am not going to make any effort into growing the pie. To me, that is enshittification. The process of making a site full of shit.
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>Chans are always a race to the bottom. 
i dunno about that, if they were to be able to adapt to the fast-changing nature of attacks, they might escape the fate of the chans of the past. what if chans can be created quicker then they can be destroyed? or move to other domains to hide. realize that unless you are the predator, you are the prey and embrace the unique options and advantages you have as a prey.

>The bottom is the stupidest, most vocal poster who decides to put in the most effort. There's about 2-3 people who are ruining the decorum and quality of the site intentionally doing this, and until we are either rid of them or some understanding is effected the site will be shit.
i don't see this as an inevitability. you are chasing after some imagined goldielocks conditions that might never happen.

>If I can't post threads without some fuckwit trying to derail them endlessly with theatrics or otherwise, I am not going to make any effort into growing the pie. To me, that is enshittification. The process of making a site full of shit.
all i can say is operate from a mindset of that there must be a solution to it. i don't know if there is, i don't know if the shitstorm is some digital weapon that can be aimed at websites since some higher power seem to be in the process of seizing all means of communication for new world order type of shit, but it is important to keep finding ways to evolve away from this.
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>>283
The reason why every alt chan ever made has basically failed, is because they enshittify into ecosystems nobody outside of their small founding population actually wants to join. I think it's a terminal problem on this site as well
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>>284
>The reason why every alt chan ever made has basically failed, is because they enshittify into ecosystems nobody outside of their small founding population actually wants to join. 

i don't think this is true. there are people who don't want to play the game of identity and enter their name on facebook and post selfies. they would come if they knew. i just found the site not long ago from an old bookmark i made browsing another chan. if i had remembered (my bookmarks are a mess and i am not sure how to solve the bookmark dilemma) sooner, i would have loved to join sooner.

>I think it's a terminal problem on this site as well
i am beginning to wonder if you believe chans can become and empire, i don't think chans can become an empire, they might be more shortlived lifeforms.

when you buy a turtle it might outlive you.
when you buy a hamster, it might die after just a few weeks.

chans in this digital surrounding might be hamsters.

I WANT TO ENCOURAGE YOU TO KEEP THINKING ABOUT THIS AND MAYBE I CAN COME UP WITH A SOLUTION OR SOMEONE ELSE 💪
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