DATE: 04/20/2020

I am grateful for...

1.Entertaining video games.
2.Financial security.
3.Living comfortably.

What would make today great?

1.Sticking to the schedule.
2.Healthy meals.
3.A feeling of accomplishment.

Daily affirmations. I am...

... going to be okay.

3 Amazing things that happened today.

1.Got some gaming in.
2.Did some serious mind-mapping today.
3.Went through the first few lectures in a game design course I'm taking.

How could I have made today better?

I would up frustrated an angry. Becuase I slept on time, and yet I still felt tired, and it was frustrated. I get enough sleep, eat healthier than I have before, try to have good bed-time habits, and yet I still wake up tired.

I looked over the non-zero-days post on Reddit that I read a while ago. While the non-zero-day mindset was definitely a good takeaway, another one was the idea of forgiving oneself. For example, I need to learn to forgive myself when I don't follow through with my plans, or if things don't work out as I intended.

I think I already knew that my work tasks were already too much when I started. There's no real penalty for pushing off any excess work. I think I should be more comfortable pushing off tasks that I can't finish. Otherwise I'll just stress myself out trying to get it all done within an arbitrary deadline.

  • According to Captain Picard, "It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is life." I really need to internalize that one.
  • Forgive myself.
  • Learn to not take on too much at work, or otherwise.