C2GC: Early Rising Update

It’s been over three weeks of the C2G Early Rising Challenge. I’ve slackened up a bit and over slept a few times, by choice, but I felt it was for best for my overall energy level.

Waking up early has definitely proved its benefits to me and I plan on practicing it past the thirty day mark.

If you have yet to attempt rising early, I recommend giving it a shot. Try it for a week. Consciously attempt to knock out a major action item before you would normally even wake up, it’s pretty enlightening.

C2GC: Ending Information Addiction

The C2GC of Ending Information Addiction is still proving tough. This may be due to my current circumstances of leveraging the web to build my income and plan out some future career steps.

I have however successfully cut down on my TV time. I am watching under an hour of TV programming daily, almost to no time at all. This however may change with the advent of Football season.

Weekend Reading and Links from around the Web

• The U.S. Tax System Explained with Beer
• Pandora - Awesome, free, web radio that finds music based on your preferences.
• Evernote - Allows you to record and remember anything, everywhere. I can jot notes to my phone, clip web media and store files on the web and access them on my phone or by computer. Great organizational tool.
• 8 Ways to Spot Emotional Manipulation
• Consciousness, Qualia, and Self – A discussion about what makes us human and how our interpretation of reality differs from insects and other animals.
• Great Passwork… Anything can be accomplished with outstanding team work!

Enjoy your weekend and push some comfort boundaries!

P.S. Don’t forget to remember what it means to be an American today. Our liberties and freedoms are not granted without sacrifice.

C2GC Update

It has been 2 full weeks of the Early Rising Challenge. I am very happy with my ability to stick to this challenge; I have been getting up with no problems almost everyday and do not have to nap much.

Waking up early almost doubles my productivity hours from my previous schedule of waking up between 10am-12pm. The increase in hours allows me time to work on this blog, exercise, study and prepare a delicious breakfast.

I wish I was having the same success with the C2GC of Ending Information Addiction. My ability to completely cut out internet surf time and non-essential information updates has improved,  but not nearly to the level I was hoping. It is encouraging that I have made forward progress, now I just need to push harder.

The problem lies when I have short spans of time between my next scheduled actions. If I have 15 or 30 minutes to kill before my next action item, it is very easy and gratifying to surf web. My goal is to use those free moments as productivity bursts.

These 15-30 minute productivity bursts will constitute reading a book, cleaning/organizing my living space, making a phone call to a neglected friend or whatever short-task I can find.

Hopefully these productivity bursts will be the key to furthering my recovery from information addiction.

Weekend Reading Suggestions

Here are a few good links I’ve come across on the web. The range of topics is pretty random, it is only limited to what I find interesting and potentially beneficial. Please share if you have some good ones!

101 ways to be stress free

How Police Interrogation Works – I strongly recommend reading this.

47 Lifestyle Design Resources – Check out these if you are interested in Lifestyle Design. It will become a prevelant topic here.

16 Things I Wish They Taught Me In School

Tyler Durden’s Words of Wisdom

Enjoy your weekend!

Early Rising Update

Well, after the first week of the Early Rising challenge, I am a little surprised.

Waking up has been easier than I predicted. It may because of the fresh new outlook and motivation or some other unknown, possibly short term, factor.

One thing I have noticed is that waking up is a bit more pleasant when I started using my cell phone as an alarm. The old alarm sound, which has been pissing me off daily for about the past 10 years, may have conditioned me to start the day thoroughly annoyed with the WAH-WAH-WAH sound it makes.

At any rate, as expected my days seem substantially more productive. I can get more done, cook good meals and carry out my day in a less rushed manner.

3 more weeks left until I will allow myself to change the schedule. Maybe I’ll decide to keep it.

Weekend Reading Suggestions

Here are some links from around the web that I find worthwhile and interesting. Please share more in the comments section!

The mouse and the Rectangle – A study on conditioning and thought process

How to Craft a Killer Elevator Pitch

How to Eat optimally for Massive Size and Strength

Common Misconceptions

How to Detect Lies

Keg Mobile

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Enjoy your weekend!