While on hold to report a water main break, a recording of Seattle Mayor Greg Nickles informed me that all the fantastic music I was listening to is also available online, at http://www.seattle.gov/onhold/! I was just thinking about how much I enjoy the experience of being on hold and wondering if there was any way I could experience it more often. Isn’t technology wonderful?
It’s not often that I get to be really happy about living on a hill with a 20 degree incline. But when Seattle suddenly dumps an inch of hail on the ground within the span of an hour and I’ve only got about 30 minutes before it turns into slush and my hill becomes the perfect sledding hill because no car would be dumb enough to drive up or down it… oh yeah, then I love my hill.
Oh, and when sledding on cardboard boxes – use the glossy ones with pictures on them. They’re way faster than plain corrugated cardboard!
I am adding “Give a speech at TED” to my list of life goals. It fits in nicely with my goal of living an extraordinary life. As for the short term consequences, I need to stay committed to my effort to build my own business. While I’m not facing any financial pressure to work long hours, doing so could be the difference between taking ten years to find a build my career vs. doing it in one year. This week I’ll be making a concerted effort to put in a lot more hours and I hope to see a difference at the end.
No one can complain about Seattle winters if we get days like this. Sunny blue sky, a crisp breeze in the air…
I’m going to do a little bit of work, explore my car’s wiring, and maybe… go eat a cupcake.
Seriously, how do people with real jobs do it? This is a rough outline of my daily schedule. There’s not enough hours in the day.
Morning:
Run 1-2 miles (all I can do now without knee/shin pain), come back home and keep my heart rate up with pushups/pullups/jumprope while doing audio French lessons
Work:
Get public speaking website up
Continue Thirty Day Challenge niche marketing projects
Learn aweber’s mailing list software to integrate with both the above
Prepare for upcoming speeches
Learn something about real estate
Play:
Get electrical engineering nerd fix by wiring a kill switch into my car
Practice steel drums
Practice bagpipes
Practice guitar
Write
Recreational reading:
The God Delusion, by Richard Dawkins
The Blank Slate, by Steven Pinker
Harry Potter in Spanish (currently working on book 4)
I’m falling behind, and I think the secret is to make my evenings more productive. I’m trying to maintain a consistent sleep schedule (go to bed at 2am every night, wake up at 10 am every day) which has been great because it matches my natural body clock and keeps weekends from throwing me out of whack too much. But if I don’t start getting some work done between say, 10pm and 2am I’m not going to make any progress. My new plan is to concentrate my intellectually taxing work in the the middle of the day and catch up on the braindead stuff (emails, etc) in the evenings. I’m hoping to add dance lessons and Brazilian jiu jitsu in the near future, but I’m forcing myself to get my schedule handled first. Good luck to me!
