--- ## Notes/Brainstorming ### **✨** In My Life - Uploaded coding in obsidian video ### **🔗** Links to Thinks - [[Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself]] - [[How to Know What You Really Want]] - [[Your Money or Your Life by Vicki Robin and Joe Dominguez]] - Financial tracking ### **🚀** Actionable Tingz **Annual** - Slowly chipping away at my plans for the year - Did an annual review, but not sure if I want to have concrete annual goals - Going to try and do a 12 week year instead - Right now it's: - Content creation - Ship 30 for 30 - Weekly video - 3 of which will just be personal stories? - Weekly newsletter - Adapting to new internship - New time blocking and schedule - Getting to know people - And a secret 3rd one ❤️ ### **🤔** Food For Thought **Approaching limitless self-actualization** The main selling point of BTHOBY is to let go of your physical body and environment to tap into the power of your mind's infinite capabilities, to ultimately lose your sense of self. Similar to quantum mechanics, we can influence our mind with our thoughts to access infinite future realities: > Like clay, the energy of infinite possibilities is shaped by consciousness: your mind. And if all matter is made of energy, it makes sense that consciousness and energy are so intimately related that they are one. Mind and matter are completely entangled. Your consciousness (mind) has effects on energy (matter) because your consciousness *is* energy and energy *has* consciousness. Referencing the past through our thoughts makes your future determined and repetitive, so leveraging the limitless potential of our thoughts and imagination can help us reach new heights: > If your thoughts determine your reality, and you keep thinking the same thoughts (which are a product and reflection of the environment), then you will continue to produce the same reality day after day. Thus, your internal thoughts and feelings exactly match your external life You rely on your environment's stimulus and feedback to formulate your own identity, but it's also important that we take time to not need a sense of who we are: > When your life is over and you cannot rely on your external world to define you, you will be left with that feeling you never addressed. You would not have evolved as a soul in that lifetime. Unforunately, these points aren't entirely backed in science. Sure he provided proof through experiments, but it's not hard to cherrypick and exaggerate findings when it come to more psychological concepts. Ultimately though, is there harm in believing if it can potentially lead to a greater life for yourself? I've had a similar experience of losing my ego with psychedelics, but it was more enlightening towards just re-experiencing the world for the first time rather than tapping into a higher vision. And after switching my social groups and online environment I've definitely seen an improvement in my lifestyle and self-esteem, so I think there's some truth in there as well. One thing stood out for me: We should never wait for science to give us permission to do the uncommon; if we do, then we are turning science into another religion. We should be brave enough to contemplate our lives, do what we thought was “outside the box,” and do it repeatedly. When we do that, we are on our way to a greater level of personal power. ### 😤 My Ramblings - Internship is about to end - Really enjoy the people there, sure remote would have been nice but I think I do value face-to-face interaction - Different dynamics - Supervisor/mentor - Fellow intern - Wise coworkers - Learned a lot - Coding - constant feedback from code reviews - Conversations - Teamwork - A general startup operates - Enjoyed the relaxed culture of a startup - Snacks and more freedom was fun - the actual work was a love-hate relationship ## Publishing Copy Welcome to another edition of _Weekly Wondering_, a sacred time where I share the resonating links, reflections and learnings from my past week to influence your next one ;) ### **✨** In My Life **Learning to Code using Obsidian** After using Obsidian for learning to code for school, landing an internship, and learning on the job, I shared my process and notes in my latest video, which you can watch [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azma1tNm_Ns) ### **🔗** Links to Thinks **Breaking the habit of being yourself** [Breaking the habit of being yourself](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12951631-breaking-the-habit-of-being-yourself) means breaking out of complacency, of the self you've imagined as a result of your environment, thoughts, and body. By surpassing such limits, you become one with the world through your capabilities and power: > How much further can we go? There is no end to this adventure. We are only limited by the questions we ask, the knowledge we embrace, and our ability to keep an open mind and heart. It's kind of the mindset I've been in recently, so it was nice elaborating on the ideas in a more [[Mimetic Desire]] ### **🚀** Actionable Tingz **Planning for 2023** Last time I shared my annual review reflections and have been chipping away at those, but recently I've been struggling to figure out what my goals should be for the next year. In fact, I'm not sure if I want any concrete annual goals at all. My priorities this year drastically changed from the beginning, which wasn't necessarily a bad thing as I was exploring new opportunities. Instead, I think I'll opt in for a shorter timeframe for goal-setting, to break it up into quarterly goals via the idea of a [12 week year](https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/10009377-the-12-week-year). For each quarter, you have 12 weeks of tasks, and on the 13th week, you reflect and reward yourself for your efforts. So, how can you create your own? First, come up with a vision for what you want to make progress towards. Find out what's being neglected in your life lacking by rating different areas of it (ex. personal, work, physical, community, family, spouse/partner, spiritual), then choose the areas that are lacking the most. Next, it's time to plan the goals 😈 I usually stick with only 3. My first goal is to stay consistent with my content creation as a vehicle for self-expression and passive income. Second is to adapt to my new internship so I can seek new opportunities for growth and organize the rest of my life responsibilities around it. Lastly, I want to get into physical fitness for the health benefits and to practice effortful discipline :) Next, it's time to create an action plan by: - coming up with 1-2 keystone actions that will generate the most results which will be highest priority, as well as other possible - Acnowledging the opportunity cost of all of them, only following throuhg with ones you are fine with - Integrating these tasks into your productivity system, whether it be tasks or time blocking - Finding a way to measure your progress (habit tracker, pages read per day, etc) Content creation - Ship 30 for 30 during January - Weekly video, alternating between John Mavrick and Ran Wanders - Weekly newsletter Adapting to new internship - I only have to come into office once a day, so I'll have to create a new time-blocking schedule :) - Have a similar dynamic with my current internship, get close with a fellow intern and a mentor like my supervisor - Learn any new technologies or practices Fitness goals - Max 1800 calories a day with a cheat day - Max 80g carbs, 40g sugars? Just rough numbers - During a 15-min pomodoro break after work: - Calisthenics - Mon, Wed, Fri - Walk - Tues, Thurs - Gym with cousins Sunday (unless my work will have one - Use transit time to read and think :) - 15-min stretch on weekends Everything will be tracked with a habit tracker I'll build in Obsidian, as well as just checking in every week. ### **🤔** Food For Thought **Approaching limitless self-actualization** The main selling point of BTHOBY is to let go of your physical body and environment to tap into the power of your mind's infinite capabilities, to ultimately lose your sense of self. Similar to quantum mechanics, we can influence our mind with our thoughts to access infinite future realities: > Like clay, the energy of infinite possibilities is shaped by consciousness: your mind. And if all matter is made of energy, it makes sense that consciousness and energy are so intimately related that they are one. Mind and matter are completely entangled. Your consciousness (mind) has effects on energy (matter) because your consciousness *is* energy and energy *has* consciousness. Referencing the past through our thoughts makes your future determined and repetitive, so leveraging the limitless potential of our thoughts and imagination can help us reach new heights: > If your thoughts determine your reality, and you keep thinking the same thoughts (which are a product and reflection of the environment), then you will continue to produce the same reality day after day. Thus, your internal thoughts and feelings exactly match your external life You rely on your environment's stimulus and feedback to formulate your own identity, but it's also important that we take time to not need a sense of who we are: > When your life is over and you cannot rely on your external world to define you, you will be left with that feeling you never addressed. You would not have evolved as a soul in that lifetime. Unforunately, these points aren't entirely backed in science. Sure he provided proof through experiments, but it's not hard to cherrypick and exaggerate findings when it come to more psychological concepts. Ultimately though, is there harm in believing if it can potentially lead to a greater life for yourself? I've had a similar experience of losing my ego with psychedelics, but it was more enlightening towards just re-experiencing the world for the first time rather than tapping into a higher vision. And after switching my social groups and online environment I've definitely seen an improvement in my lifestyle and self-esteem, so I think there's some truth in there as well. One thing stood out for me: > We should never wait for science to give us permission to do the uncommon; if we do, then we are turning science into another religion. We should be brave enough to contemplate our lives, do what we thought was “outside the box,” and do it repeatedly. When we do that, we are on our way to a greater level of personal power. **Do I really need to make more money, or is there more important things I should attend to?** After reading Your Money or Your Life and The Minimalist Entrepreneur, do I really need to make more money? Or have it as my primary motivation? - I do like minimalist entrepreneur's approach atm, how it's only a means to an end, the main objective isn't to grow some disgustingly big company, it's to do something you enjoy that you slowly grow without external pressure that eventually helps towards paying bills and allowing for time freedom - Income is 15-20x higher than my expenses… 8x from just the internship alone sooo - Probably only gonna spend like 500ish each month - Leveraging does come with risk, but if you have good systems then it's worth ### 😤 My Ramblings **2 weeks until the end of my first internship** I really enjoyed being with the people there. - Sure remote would have been nice but I think being forced to socialize is important for an online hermit like me 😅 There were also different social dynamics I was exposed to for the first time: - Supervisor/mentor for supportive learning on new tech and best coding practices - Fellow intern that thinks rationally to contrast my impulsive and head-in-the-cloud tendencies - Wise coworkers and people more ahead in the tech industry than I am to clarify my future path I also learned a lot. - Coding - Constant feedback from code reviews - Conversations about life - Mental health - Social media usage - Relationships - Teamwork - How a general startup operates I'll miss the - Enjoyed the relaxed culture of a startup - Snacks and foosball hehe - work, somewhat - it was a love-hate relationship in terms of efficiency, but ultimately having such freedom was good for being comfortable with more responsibilities as a programmer But yeah, I was planning on fleshing this out more but I got home super late and didn't have the hour I planned 😅 Happy holidays, and until next week! :)