Raphael

18 July 2020 Wake Up Time: 06:25 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM) In Bed Time: 09:45 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM) ✅ 45 minutes of Doing Nothing Before Going To Sleep Work Sessions: 02:02 PM - 03:26 PM: I continued the SEO course. I distracted myself at some moments. Work Duration: 1 hour 24 minutes 04:10 PM - 04:42 PM: I continued the SEO course, I got distracted several times by a client. Work Duration: 32 minutes Deep Work Sessions: 08:39 AM - 10:03 AM: I continued yesterday's work on the masonry view. I had a lot of thoughts. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 24 minutes 10:25 AM - 11:51 AM: I continued the masonry view, but encountered some computation bugs. I also had a lot of unrelated thoughts. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 26 minutes 12:00 AM - 12:44 AM: I completed the masonry view, it looks great, I'm satisfied with the result. Deep Work Duration: 44 minutes 03:32 PM - 04:04 PM: I did some verification a fixed a few bugs on my client's project. Deep Work Duration: 32 minutes Today was a little more difficult than yesterday as I felt more agitation in my body. I also distracted myself a little too much when taking my main break. But globally I was quite productive. @Raphael That's good, continue Total Work Duration: 6 hours 2 minutes, including 4 hours 6 minutes of Deep Work (objective at least 6 hours) Total Reading Time: 0 minutes (objective 0 minutes, I'm not reading anything currently)

I resonate with this. In my previous work environment, I didn't care about competing with people or moving up in the hierarchy, I mostly cared about the well-being of the project. By just caring about the project, I would produce elite work, have and share more insights and in consequence, naturally speak more with the manager and create an emotional connection with him. This allowed me to be closer to the top of the hierarchy and I'm sure that I would get promoted faster than other people if I continued to work in this environment. I didn't even need to play social games or compete even though other workers saw this as competition. It's a little similar to the top kids at school, a kid that is interested and curious will want to do better to understand the different subjects, and therefore, he/she will ask more questions and create a closer/more intimate relationship with the different teachers. The teachers will then help the kid more and the kid will move up the grade hierarchy and have better opportunities in life and the other kids will come to him/her because he/she will be perceived as someone of value.

17 July 2020 Wake Up Time: 06:36 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM) In Bed Time: 09:46 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM) ✅ 45 minutes of Doing Nothing Before Going To Sleep Work Sessions: 08:34 AM - 09:38 AM: I contacted the freelancer platform because of payment issues and connected my domain name to the WordPress server. Work Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 09:55 AM - 10:50 AM: I continued the SEO course then got interrupted by a client. Work Duration: 55 minutes 10:50 AM - 11:20 AM: I had a conversation with my client, but the network was so bad that we continued by text. Work Duration: 30 minutes 11:28 AM - 12:43 AM: I continued working on the SEO course. Work Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes 01:48 PM - 03:33 PM: I continued the SEO course. Work Duration: 1 hour 45 minutes Deep Work Sessions: 03:41 PM - 04:58 PM: I worked on a CSS masonry view. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 17 minutes @Raphael Good job! You were quite focused today, avoided distractions, and had a lot of empty time. You are getting back on track, continue! Total Work Duration: 6 hours 46 minutes, including 1 hour 17 minutes of Deep Work (objective at least 6 hours) Total Reading Time: 0 minutes (objective 0 minutes, I'm not reading anything currently)

You can try to share ideas and concepts to improve the company or innovate the products or how the work is done, it would help everyone in the company and people will be grateful to you. Being good at something is fine but not enough to move up the ladder. if you can provide insights and new structural changes that innovate and make the company progress and work more effectively, people will perceive you as someone of value and you will naturally move up in the hierarchy and gain success. Concerning the politics and manipulation game, if think it would be better to avoid it as much as possible and prefer straight honest communication. Manipulating each other at work is unhealthy and creates tension within the group.

16 July 2020 Wake Up Time: 07:10 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM) In Bed Time: 09:40 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM) ✅ 45 minutes of Doing Nothing Before Going To Sleep Work Sessions: No work for today Total Work Duration: 0 minutes, 0 minutes of Deep Work (objective 0 minutes) Total Reading Time: 0 minutes (objective 0 minutes, I'm not reading anything currently)

Make Grand Gestures (from Deep Work: Rules For Focused Success In A Distracted World - Cal Newport) By making a radical change to your environment, coupled perhaps with a significant investment of effort or money, all dedicated to supporting a deep work task, you increase the perceived importance of the task. This boost in importance reduces your mind's instinct to procrastinate and delivers an injection of motivation and energy.

Ritualize (from Deep Work: Rules For Focused Success In A Distracted World - Cal Newport) Build rituals to make the most out of your deep work sessions General questions that any effective ritual must address: Where you'll work and for how long: Have a quiet and specific location Give yourself a specific time frame How you'll work once you start to work: The rituals need rules and processes to keep the efforts structured Without rules, you'll have to mentally litigate again and again what you should and should not be doing during these sessions and keep trying to assess whether you're working sufficiently hard. These are unnecessary drains on your willpower reserves How you'll support your work: Ensure your brain gets the support it needs to keep operating at a high level of depth. Have access to enough quality food to maintain energy Integrate light exercise such as walking to keep the mind clear To maximize your success, you need to support your efforts to go deep. At the same time, this support needs to be systematized so that you don't waste mental energy figuring out what you need in the moment

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I will use this place to share personal random insights on life and other people's insights that I find valuable and wise. I will also share quotes of people from this forum too.

@Opo He almost doesn't look progressive from this list, but anyway, anyone is better than Trump in the current context.

@Opo @Gidiot What does the left like about Biden?

Life Ain't That Bad Sometimes I complain about having a bad life and being in a bad situation, but the reality is that my life isn't that bad. My situation is actually pretty good: I'm living with my family, I have a lot of alone time, I have some work, a lot of nature around me, I meditate, I go to the gym, the country where I live in is fine (OK, I live in Africa, but I live in the most developed country on the continent), I have freedom of speech, clean food, clean water, the place is politically stable, the government took action very quickly on COVID-19 so that we are now one of the only COVID free country in the world. I'm self-actualizing and very grateful to life to know actualized.org, this forum, and the people that I interact with here. Of course, not everything is good, I have personal issues and difficulties too, but globally speaking my situation is fine.

15 July 2020 Wake Up Time: 06:31 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM) In Bed Time: 09:43 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM) ✅ 45 minutes of Doing Nothing Before Going To Sleep Work Sessions: 12:24 AM - 12:55 AM: I had a call with my client. Work Duration: 31 minutes I almost didn't sleep for this night too, so my brain was quite slow today. I didn't want to work after the previous intense week and preferred to take this day off. I instead did some setup and help my mom with her computer and her phone. Total Work Duration: 31 minutes, including 0 minutes of Deep Work (objective at least 6 hours) Total Reading Time: 0 minutes (objective 0 minutes, I'm not reading anything currently)

@Forestluv What does the left don't like about Biden?

14 July 2020 Wake Up Time: 08:22 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM) In Bed Time: 10:15 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM) ❌ 45 minutes of Doing Nothing Before Going To Sleep Deep Work Sessions: 09:30 AM - 10:33 AM: I created the cookie policy modal and started to fix some bugs on the product grid. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 10:58 AM - 12:37 AM: I worked on the navigation and added all the important links to them. I had a lot of negative thoughts about previous difficult social experiences. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 39 minutes 01:47 PM - 03:06 PM: I created the mobile legal pages, the forgot password page, and then reset password one. I distracted myself near the end with some podcasts. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 19 minutes 03:12 PM - 04:06 PM: I completed the remaining pages and did a few design adjustments. Deep Work Duration: 54 minutes I almost didn't sleep for the entire night. I got super lazy in the morning and didn't want to get out of bed. That's OK anyway because I didn't want to work that much today as I was tired of the last two weeks and feeling so much pressure on me. Total Work Duration: 4 hours 54 minutes, including 4 hours 54 minutes of Deep Work (objective at least 6 hours) Total Reading Time: 0 minutes (objective 0 minutes, I'm not reading anything currently)

They fit perfectly together. I think having two people of different gender in the president and vice president positions can bring a little more balance in the government. I hope to see more of that in the future and in other countries too. It's also maybe better that they are not the most progressive candidates because they can appeal to more people from both the left and the right. If Bernie would be Trump's opponent, Trump would have more chances of winning because more people would resonate with him and resist Bernie.

13 July 2020 Wake Up Time: 07:02 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM) In Bed Time: 10:05 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM) ✅ 45 minutes of Doing Nothing Before Going To Sleep Deep Work Sessions: 09:29 AM - 10:40 AM: I worked on the navigation links for the member area, it created a display bug for the login and logout buttons. I also started to design the mobile version of the orders history section. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes 11:14 AM - 12:51 AM: I started to divide the enquire component for mobile/desktop views. I distracted myself near the end because I started to listen to a podcast. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 37 minutes 01:57 PM - 03:04 PM: I completed the enquire component and started to work on the items viewed component. I was quite distracted because I was listening to a podcast at the same time. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 03:15 PM - 04:23 PM: I almost completed the order items component. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 04:31 PM - 04:51 PM: I completed the order items component. Deep Work Duration: 20 minutes 08:27 PM - 09:14 PM: I moved the currency selection to the side menu. Deep Work Duration: 47 minutes @Raphael Good job Stay aware of the distractions and focus completely on your work. Keep it up! Total Work Duration: 6 hours 20 minutes, including 6 hours 20 minutes of Deep Work (objective at least 6 hours) Total Reading Time: 0 minutes (objective 0 minutes, I'm not reading anything currently)

12 July 2020 Wake Up Time: 06:44 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM) In Bed Time: 10:20 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM) ❌ 45 minutes of Doing Nothing Before Going To Sleep Deep Work Sessions: 02:08 PM - 03:38 PM: I continued the work on the mobile/desktop separation of the checkout page. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes 03:44 PM - 05:00 PM: I completed the mobile version of checkout page, the cancel checkout page, and the validate payment page. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 16 minutes 08:13 PM - 08:54 PM: I completed the mobile view for the stripe payment. I distracted myself a little near the end. Deep Work Duration: 41 minutes 09:00 PM - 10:01 PM: I started to work on the mobile version of the orders history. It's almost complete, I was quite focused. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 1 minute @Raphael Good, that's better. Continue to re-stabilize yourself ? Total Work Duration: 4 hours 28 minutes, including 3 hours 57 minutes of Deep Work (objective 0 minutes) Total Reading Time: 0 minutes (objective 0 minutes, I'm not reading anything currently)

11 July 2020 Wake Up Time: 06:51 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM) In Bed Time: 10:00 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM) ✅ 45 minutes of Doing Nothing Before Going To Sleep Deep Work Sessions: 08:25 AM - 09:57 AM: I started the day with some fixes concerning the social logins. It caused me a lot of trouble, but I'm finally out of it. I got distracted at some moments. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 32 minutes 10:26 AM - 12:16 AM: I started to fix more bugs related to the mobile layout. I distracted myself a bit at some moments. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 50 minutes 12:26 AM - 12:52 AM: I completed the fixes to the mobile layout. Deep Work Duration: 26 minutes 02:15 AM - 03:44 PM: I started to work on the cart page. I wasn't highly focused because I was listening to some videos and then talked with my sister. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 29 minutes 03:56 AM - 05:02 AM: I almost finished the cart page. I wasn't very concentrated because I was talking to my sister at the same time. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 08:04 AM - 09:08 AM: I completed the cart page and started the checkout page, it's half complete. I was quite focused during this session. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes @Raphael Courage Raphael, courage! Total Work Duration: 7 hours 27 minutes, including 3 hours 57 minutes of Deep Work (objective at least 6 hours) Total Reading Time: 0 minutes (objective 0 minutes, I'm not reading anything currently)

The bald guy is toxic which is ironic because he said himself that men became toxic.

10 July 2020 Wake Up Time: 07:31 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM) In Bed Time: 10:50 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM) Work Sessions: 03:51 PM - 04:31 PM: I had a call with my client. It looks like the more I work for him, the more he wants me to work non-stop. Work Duration: 40 minutes Deep Work Sessions: 09:47 AM - 10:36 AM: I created the mobile search menu and did some adjustments. I distracted myself at a moment by doing some desktop configuration. Deep Work Duration: 49 minutes 11:21 AM - 12:05 AM: I completed the search functionality. It looks very good, I'm very satisfied with the result. Deep Work Duration: 54 minutes 12:15 AM - 01:03 AM: I started to separate the login component into a desktop and mobile version. Deep Work Duration: 48 minutes 03:28 PM - 03:51 PM: I worked on the login page. Deep Work Duration: 23 minutes 08:24 PM - 08:59 PM: I completed the mobile login view, the social logins are not working yet, I will add them after completing the registration page. Deep Work Duration: 35 minutes 09:10 PM - 09:50 PM: I worked on the mobile registration view. It's almost complete. Deep Work Duration: 40 minutes 09:57 PM - 10:26 PM: I completed the register mobile view and added the loading logo. I will deal with the social logins tomorrow. Deep Work Duration: 29 minutes My client is pressuring me and I don't like it. I over stress when I'm pressured and in consequence I'm more lazy and I procrastinate and take more time to do my work. I respect more the deadlines without deadlines. I know that I will have to deal with such situations in the future, and not being able to give the work on the time is similar to dying for me. I think that the best way to deal with such situations is to work as if I'm already dead so that I don't have anything to stress about. Total Work Duration: 5 hours 18 minutes, including 4 hours 38 minutes of Deep Work (objective at least 6 hours) Total Reading Time: 0 minutes (objective 0 minutes, I'm not reading anything currently)

So Many People Do Dumb Shit Warning: The following paragraph is a rant and will be seeing as toxic and insulting to some people All my life I have been blown away by how many dumb things people do. By people, I'm talking about normal average people who just have an average life and live pretty well. They are the people that I mostly grew up with, they are people who just live life without trying to improve anything. They just do so many dumb things, it's incredible. When they eat, they eat unhealthy food without even thinking about it and the future consequences. When they entertain themselves, they entertain themselves with the stupidest entertainment possible (dumb movies, low conscious video game, sports, TV, etc.). The information that they consume is total garbage, they don't want to learn anything conscious. When they speak, they just talk shit all the time, say stupid jokes and cannot handle a deep conversation. Physical health is almost non existent for them, they usually don't have any physical activity except walking, and sometimes walking is too difficult for them so they prefer to use public transport. They don't take any responsibility for anything, that's crazy. They simply like to be dumb and say shit all day, they don't want to change, they don't want to improve. I understand that they are where they are, I understand that they are stuck, but I am not conscious enough to accept them completely. When I'm in my lower self, I just see them as dumb people.

09 July 2020 Wake Up Time: 07:20 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM) In Bed Time: 10:25 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM) Deep Work Sessions: 01:48 PM - 03:08 PM: I started to fix bugs related to the mobile filters. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes 03:26 PM - 04:57 PM: I continued to fix the bugs related to the mobile filters. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 31 minutes 08:15 PM - 09:21 PM: More fixes, and also more unrelated thoughts. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes @Raphael That's better, you need to re stabilize yourself. Courage! Total Work Duration: 3 hours 57 minutes, including 3 hours 57 minutes of Deep Work (objective 0 minutes) Total Reading Time: 0 minutes (objective 0 minutes, I'm not reading anything currently)

Stage Green rap.

I think that's stage red.