As I write this, I am drenched in sweat. But I am proud to say that the Get Shit Done Day was a success! And it really launches my August the way I wanted!
So, what's Get Shit Done Day anyways? Well, nowadays I have only 2 options: To Work, for which their is no obligation OR To Play (which includes all recreational activities). Now what happens is that I usually end up doing things that are not high priority, and not work as much as I want during the day. So, on Get Shit Done Day I decided to first complete all kinds of "work" related (high priority) activities before doing any play related (low priority) activities.
Here is what I did since morning (8 am):
And in between all this, I managed to do daily chores like breakfast, lunch and filling water! BTW I did programming after weeks today and it felt great :) even though I just wrote simple code snippets to get started. I hope I will continue to do that tomorrow too.
To make sure all this gets done, I didn't open system till point-1 was done. And didn't open browser till point-6 was done. I didn't go to next task until the previous one was complete, so as to make sure that I don't end up skipping anything. I didn't measure exactly but I estimate that I have done 6 hours of work today and that is a stupendous achievement for me. And I assure you, doing 6 hours of continuous work wasn't a walk in the park either.
But by the time I would reach point 9, it would already be 3 pm which means just a few hours of play time :( So, now to maximize my play time, tomorrow I will observe *Early Bird Day!*
Definitely visit and find out what happens tomorrow!
PS: It wasn't all hunky-dory today. While doing breakfast, I ended up reading newspaper for half an hour. It's one thing that is not easy for me to skip.
Awsm man!! After all being occupied in such stuff is much better than being VELA!!:D
ReplyDeleteThanks mate! Yeah, it did take some effort but I really enjoyed going from one task to another!
ReplyDeletehmm.. I liked the previous theme better but this one is also good.
ReplyDeleteAt least the font and font size has improved.
what is this journal all abt ? u never told
ReplyDeleteI hope u r the same "Anonymous" who likes to comment late night, so I am not getting mistaken.
ReplyDeleteWell the journal is kind of a personal thing so didn't feel the need to tell about it, but did tell about it once on Buzz.
And the only reason I wrote about it is because it helps me clear my mind, so has become a high priority thing of the day.
Congrats! The get shit dande was a success! :D
ReplyDeleteMost interesting thing I found in your task list was "Trying out GIMP".
What did you try out? and how cool is GIMP? I recently tried Inkscape (for vector) may be you should try that too.
Yeah! I have just started trying out GIMP. In fact, had even tried to learn PS but found it too overwhelming.
ReplyDeleteRight now following a video tutorial that I downloaded sometime ago. After spending a few days, I gotta say GIMP isn't as complex or bad (UI wise) as I first thought it to be.
Learning various selection tools right now: Rectangle, Ellipse, Fuzzy select, select by color, scissor select, path tool etc.
ReplyDeleteWell right now, I am trying to familiarize with GIMP, without much intention of becoming the next Skand. May be Inkspace for later.
Hmm..nice. Learning GIMP will definitely help you to understand PS too.
ReplyDeleteYeah one thing at one time..raster for now, vector for later.