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July 2022: The first step

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This is the first step of my new journey. From now, I will be posting an article at the end of every month summarizing my activities throughout the month. This will serve two purposes. Firstly, it will act as my monthly self reflection. I will review my activities for the past month and set goals for the next month. Secondly, it will help me break the ice and create a habit of regular posting.

I will be reviewing my activities in the following categories:

  • Learning: The things I have learned throughout this month. This will include professional, personal, tech, or non-tech topics.
  • Reading: The book I have read this month.
  • Writing: The number of posts I have written this month. This includes the monthly self-reflection posts.
  • Productivity: The amount of productive time I have spent on professional and personal tasks. I am using Toggl Track for tracking my productive time.
  • Screen Time: The amount of time I have spent on mobile devices. This excludes the screen time I have spent on a computer. The goal is to reduce average screen time.
  • Health: The amount of time I have slept and the time or distance I have exercised.
  • OSS Contribution: Any contribution to open-source projects, including my own OSS projects or third-party projects.
  • Toy Project: The best way to learn is to do it yourself. I will build small projects with the things I have learned.

Goal for August 2022

Learning

Reading

Writing

  • At least one post.

Productivity

  • Average three productive hours on weekdays.
  • Average 1.5 productive hours on weekends.

Screen Time

  • Limit average weekday screen time within 1.5 hours.
  • Limit average weekend screen time within 2.5 hours.

Health

  • Average six hours of sleep and 2 km walking on weekdays.
  • Average eight hours of sleep and 2.5 km walking on weekend days.

OSS Contribution

  • Fix at least one bug in hugo-toha/toha.
  • Finish at least two sections in a new Hugo theme.

Toy Project

  • Build one toy project with experience gained from reading the system design book.

That’s all for today. I will revisit this post next month and review it against these goals.

I don’t expect someone will read this post. It is just a reminder to myself. If you have read it anyway, thanks for your time.

Attribution: Hero image by Jukan Tateisi on Unsplash.