Temperance & a Chance
Overarching Goal: 10k YouTube Subscribers
Directionally Correct: Yes
Give me a chance:
Post Foldable to Slab Video
Finish filming B-Roll, creating thumbnail, and uploading video
Skills: Uploading, Thumbnail Creation, Editing
Temperance:
100% Diet Adherence
Finish cut by fully adhering to diet
Skills: practice temperance
Discipline:
In bed by 10:00 PM
Skills: discipline and health
Side Quest:
Read all Beginner 1 Lingq Lessons
Skill: Japanese
Temperance is a word I heard for the first time this past month. Once I heard it, I couldn’t unhear it. Temperance is the quality of self-moderation.
Temperance is something that I need to practice.
I also am not content with where my life is. I have accepted that I never will be but I have come to recognize that if I cannot practice moderation and strengthen my discipline, I will never get to where I want to be in life.
I will wind up like everybody else.
My working doesn’t avoid that fate, but it increases the odds and I like my chances.
So I am setting myself weekly challenges and breaking those challenges down to dailies. This helps force me to work, regardless of what is going on in my life.
While the directions aren’t always clear, I must keep walking.
Let’s break down the goals.
Overarching Goal: 10k YouTube Subscribers
Directionally Correct: Yes
I believe in my ability to do this, I just haven’t been consistent enough to do it. It’s time to change that. I want to prove to myself that I can. I believe that this will help me regain control of my time and my life—thus, it is directionally correct.
Give me a chance:
Post Foldable to Slab Video
Finish filming B-Roll, creating thumbnail, and uploading video
Skills: Uploading, Thumbnail Creation, Editing
This video is done and posted on my page. The last thing that I need to do is create the thumbnail for it. I have made the executive decision to change from Canva to Photoshop. While Canva is great and I really don’t have any grievances with it, I want my artistic abilities to show through. This will be a lack of abilities initially but my vision is to make my thumbnails look like a gallery to differentiate myself from most other creators in my niches.
Also, Photoshop is the short term high thing with long-term higher pay off so it’s clearly the right decision.
While it’s not perfect, I set myself a deadline of today to post this video and I am happy overall with the outcome. I had fun and was actually thinking a lot about what I wanted to do and how I wanted to incorporate it into the final product. The organization of ideas in this one wasn’t perfect, but I had fun and the quality is closer to where I want it to be.
I got practice at the cuts that I make, the B-Roll, and doing the damn thing.
Reps. Reps. Reps.
Temperance:
100% Diet Adherence
Finish cut by fully adhering to diet
Skills: practice temperance
I want to slap myself for this one but I’m giving myself credit. I was perfect this week and even was under my caloric intake goals.
So why do I want to slap myself? Because I subbed a protein shake for dinner when I was on the cusp of hitting my goal weight to come in further under on my calories and it jacked up my digestion causing me to be bloated for 2 days with an artificial increase in weight.
Stick to the damn plan.
Discipline:
In bed by 10:00 PM
Skills: discipline and health
I want to give up on sleep forever. I know it’s important and it’s one of my favorite parts of the day but sometimes it just gets in the way.
So does my limited ability to prioritize but damn does trying to get to bed on time try to force me to be accountable to myself.
It’s almost like I knew it would be hard?
Side Quest:
Read all Beginner 1 Lingq Lessons
Skill: Japanese
I need to pay more attention when I set challenges for myself. I had reviewed practically all of the beginner 1 content before I jumped into this challenge.
I pivoted to beginner 2 and wanted to listen to a lesson that needed importing and didn’t want to waste my time fumbling around sooooo Japanese with Noriko it was!
I realized in doing this that I am getting pretty good at shadowing while someone is orating but ummmmm—I’m a slow reader in English and even slower in Japanese.
I feel like I am a 6’9” Kindergartener and I don’t like sitting on the plastic play stools. I want to read some damn novels.
Who’s idea was it to create individual characters? I’d like to speak with their manager.
Key Learnings:
With a clearly defined goal and a grand vision, discipline is easier. Not easy. Easier.
Reviewing what you need to get done and breaking it down daily, and adhering to it overall, makes life significantly easier.
Sometimes the shortcut bites you in the ass—or in my case, causes abdominal pain.
Sometimes you are going to feel like a 6’9” kindergartener sitting at a plastic play table, but that discomfort will help you grow.
Going to the gym has become easy, routine even. Adding stuff in on top of a routine item makes it easier to stack more on my plate.
I really enjoy writing.
