Energy Report: S: N | M: N | Tu: N | W: mtk | Th: N | F: N | S: N

Weight: 104.4 kg / 230 lbs (-0.8 kg / 1.7 lbs)

Media:

• Games: Beat Animal Well, started Cyberpunk 2077, playing Helldivers 2
• TV/Movies: Finished Kaos
• Books: Finished Atomic Habits, Reading Flow

I’m not sure how I feel about what I created above, but I’ll roll with it.

My Week

I had an excellent week. All of my habits and routines are locked in and getting better. I started taking my evening medication earlier which has allowed me to wake up earlier. Waking up earlier allows me to get more done or have more free time.

I started using Reddit again with the CaseyAPayne account. I’m mostly answering questions in some of the personal development subs along with the Taoism sub. I also started doing my daily check-in in a sub I made for checking in called Wayofthe108. I have some cleaning up I need to do for my profile and that sub. I’ll probably get that done this week.

A friend had me over for tea last week. We talked about all kinds of fun stuff. One of the things we talked about was me thinking about starting my Chinese tea journey. It’s something I’ve been wanting to get into more seriously for a long time. When I saw him later that day he gave me a box of tea so I could get started. I’m drinking it now.

WWFMD?

The book Atomic Habits talks about the importance of identity when it comes to habit change. I was talking to a friend about this and said “We should make bracelets that say WWFMD,” a play on the WWJD? (What Would Jesus Do?) bracelets (Wikipedia). I initial said FM stood for “Future Me”, but after more conversation we came up with “Flowist me” and then “Flowist Master”. We’ve been using that when faced with a situation where we want to do better. There was a day when I started talking myself out of exercising because of some rain and after thinking “WWFMD?” I grabbed an umbrella and headed out.

The Debate

I ended up watching the Kamala/Trump debate. In the beginning I was paying attention, but I eventually zoned out while doing other things. My main take away was I don’t care about the political theater anymore and will do my best to ignore it. It’s a waste of time and energy.

Getting Back into Marketing

I won’t say much about it now, but I purchased a course from a marketing guy I’ve been following for more than 15 years. A new routine I’m adding to my days M-F will be doing marketing work.

Energy Report

The Energy Report is something I do each evening based on what I entered into my app for tracking bipolar symptoms (eMoods). I have a custom tracking point called miltownkid, which I used to use for when I actually did miltownkid related stuff. That doesn’t feel like it’s an issue anymore but there is what I’m currently calling miltownkid “energy”. I marked it on Wednesday because I caught myself deeply fantisizing about buying a bunch of domains and doing something with them. Not inherently a bad thing but, noteworthy.

Games

I really liked Animal Well. I highly recommend it for people that like Metroidvanias. Everything is extremely simple, the map is well designed for exploration, and there isn’t really a tutorial. You just play the game and figure it out along the way.

This is my third time starting Cyberpunk. I don’t think I ever made it to my apartment. I always created my character, did the opening mission, the first mission, and then stopped playing long enough to where I forgot everything from the tutorial and felt like I needed to start over. Not this time!

Helldivers is just a really fun game. It’s a four player PvE game where you fight bugs or robots with a wide variety of weapons. The visuals and audio is amazing. The physics of the game makes crazy things happen almost every game you play. It’s just really satisfying to play. My wife likes playing which makes it more fun for the both of us.

TV

Kaos is a show on Netflix about a modern day Greece with gods and humans mixing up for drama and comedy. The sets are beautiful as it was shot in Spain. I highly enjoyed this show and would give it high ratings.

Conclusion

All in all a great week. I give it 5 starts!