Guy is Back

Yes, you read that right, I am back, and I feel freaking amazing. If you look on my blog, you may think that I was never gone, but if you are following me for a while now you know how active I used to be and compared to that, it’s like I was gone for the last couple of weeks. Many of you don’t know this but back when I started, I used to spend more than ten hours a day just commenting, chatting and engaging with people in any way I could. I was barely even posting back then since I wasn’t making much, but one thing I was doing was making friends.

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In the beginning was pure fun because I had no responsibilities but as I grew on the platform the amount of work I had to put in every day got bigger and bigger. Don’t get me wrong, it’s still a lot of fun, I love doing this, I feel energized right now from writing just that once the amount of constant work grows it’s harder to keep up with everything. I’m not going to bore you by talking about my activities, but besides the time eaten up by my studies, everything else was and still is invested into Steem.

What happened?

Even if I have what I consider to be a strong mentality, having to keep up with so many hours of work every day will eventually result in some kind of burnout, and that is precisely what happened. I like doing my work, but my daily responsibilities got so many that at some point I was barely keeping up with everything and had to work more and more hours. This is not just because I am involved in many things but also because I am not managing my time as best as I could. Right now, I am kinda dominating my day, but I want to get to a point where I am entirely dominating it.

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So, I am usually not lazy when I have to do things that I enjoy, but because I had to work more, I was, at some point, sleeping way less than I usually should. I normally should sleep a minimum of seven hours a night but for the last three weeks I was sleeping six and most of the times only five hours, and that resulted in me being tired as fuck throughout the day. I didn’t realize this until yesterday, but that state of tiredness put me in a mood where I didn’t want to work anymore but instead waste my time on other less energy consuming stuff like listening and watching podcasts.

I am a firm believer that the state you are most often in, becomes your default setting and since I was getting home tired and all I wanted to do was to sleep or watch political shit on YouTube, that slowly turned into a behavior. For me, it’s all about micro and macro momentum. What I mean by that is having micro momentum during the day, just building that momentum by dominating my day at all times and macro momentum by having multiple constant days where I dominate my day.

The Solution

Now, I know what I have to do to get back on track, and that is building momentum by doing specific tasks every day. Also, I know that right after I get home, I have to start with the hardest or most energy consuming thing on my list instead of starting slow, and that is usually writing. Besides killing most of the things that are stealing my time, like YouTube, I am going to create a schedule for myself. I thought I don’t need one, but I realized that if I don’t know exactly what and when I want to do it, I will only end up wasting time.

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You see, because when you’re tired, you’re weak, you’re vulnerable, so of course, it’s harder to accomplish much since all you want to do is relax, but you have to kick yourself in the balls and keep on going. For example, I slept about six hours last night, it’s not much, but because I have built momentum during this whole day now, I feel fantastic and ready to kick some ass.

Maybe the most important thing is that I’m not going to put all the things mentioned above in practice starting tomorrow but today. If you postpone it, tomorrow will turn into another tomorrow and so on until you’re not doing it anymore, so the only time to start doing something is today.

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I already wrote this post and answered my comments, which I haven’t done in a while, and I’m also planning on writing at least two more posts. I have to mention that next week I might miss some days since I have a couple of events that are going to require my whole day. Also, for the next couple of weeks until I finish with exams at the end of June, I will still be a bit busier, but overall, I should be back. After June, I am all yours, but until then I will be in and out, making the most out of my time.

So ladies and gentlemen, excuse me for being gone for so long but I am finally back and ready to keep on fucking Steeming.

^{I’m back writing “high” on tea.}