My Current Infrastructure for Success

[CreamCat]

• Strong Morning Routine (I've had good results with this. I use habitica to manage my morning routine)
  • Taking Shower
  • Eating breakfast
  • 5-minute positive affirmation
  • One-hour meditation
  • 10-minute visualization
• Close tabs and windows on my computer that are not necessary.
  • Unnecessary tabs and windows are disorienting and distracting.
  • They can easily make you waste hours on internet browsing.
  • I would close as much as possible when I take a break so that I can start with a clean plate when I come back.
• Kill ruminations and thought loops as often as possible. If necessary, trigger a mini ego death to kill them.
  • You can't close unnecessary tabs and windows unless you know how to kill useless ruminations and thought loops.
• Constantly sacrifice bad things, non-essential things, and good things to make room for the best things. (The most important)
  • It is a form of mini ego death.
  • For example, distractions and some of your hobbies are non-essential.
  • Decide to give something up and mourn for the loss.
  • If you don't constantly sacrifice bad parts and non-essential parts of your life, everything else will collapse.
  • Sometimes, you need to sacrifice good parts, too.
• Learn to ignore low-quality criticisms.
• Hide distracting HTML elements with uBlock Origin (It has been useful)
  • For example, some dictionary websites distract me with sidebar elements. I just hide them with uBlock Origin.
• Make it inconvenient to visit distracting websites with uMatrix. (This by itself is not useful without other measures.)
• Disconnect my desktop computer from the internet when the internet is not needed? (I'm thinking about implementing this.)
• Use smartphone only when it's needed. Disable smartphone notifications. (This has been very practical.)
  • I rarely use my smartphone for internet browsing.
  • I disabled most smartphone notifications including email notifications. I just dedicate up to 25 minutes a day to checking emails.
• Plan the internet usage in advance (I will implement this as soon as possible.)
  • Instead of searching the internet whenever a random search topic occurs to me, I add it to my inbox and process the inbox later.
• Single tasking instead of Multi tasking (I still have to embody the principle of single tasking.)
  • Example: When you are eating dinner, don't fiddle with computer or smartphone.
• A proper automatic task management system (I implemented this weeks ago. It has been very helpful.)
  • Emacs org-mode organizes and presents projects, repeated tasks, task inboxes, and GTD(Getting Things Done) task contexts(home, errand, agenda, calls, ...).
  • My org-mode configuration frees my mind from orchestration and administration of projects and tasks.
  • If you don't want to learn emacs and org-mode, you can just use a task management software such as todoist.
• Optimizing learning regimen
  • Reading books for 25 minutes a day
  • Ration my time wisely for things that I need to learn for life purpose.
• Optimizing physical workout regimen
• Optimizing work regimen
  • In each work session, work for 25 ~ 50 minutes. Between work sessions, take 5~10 minute breaks.
• Daily and hourly ZFS snapshots for recovery of accidentally deleted files.
  • I can't afford full ZFS backups yet.
• My complex computer configuration is described in a text file which I update regularly.
• Try to clean up files and folders in my computer regularly.
  • This is an automatically repeated task in my task management system.

Edited February 15, 2019 by CreamCat

[Andreas]

Nice. You should also turn off wifi when not using it to avoid distraction. 

Edited February 14, 2019 by Andreas

[K VIL]

Any success with outputs so far?

[CreamCat]

8 hours ago, K VIL said:

Any success with outputs so far?

I've had some tangible success. But, to take it to the next level, you should consider these.

• Close tabs and windows on my computer that are not necessary.
• Disconnect your computers from the internet when the internet is not needed
• Constantly sacrifice things that are non-essential to your life purpose. Enjoy mini ego deaths.
• Kill ruminations and thought loops as often as possible. If necessary, trigger a mini ego death to kill them.

[Joseph Maynor]

This is the first time I've seen anybody on here do this kind of work.  Good job.  I'm impressed!

Edited February 15, 2019 by Joseph Maynor

[K VIL]

@CreamCat Im decent at sacrifice. Few things to show for it . I have trouble with positive motivation beyond living.

[okulele]

@CreamCat

Cool. Here is mine:

 

Morning

• little prayer
• hygiene
• stretching (20-30')
• meditation (40')
• loving-kindness (10')
• non-dual text study (10')

Afternoon

• reading and contemplation (-60')
• workout (30')
• vizualization (20')

Evening

• meditation (40')
• loving-kindness (10')
• non-dual text study (10')

Overall

• prioritizing time in nature
• compassionate relating
• awareness of the body
• little prayers throughout the day

[CreamCat]

3 hours ago, Joseph Maynor said:

This is the first time I've seen anybody on here do this kind of work.

What kind of work?