Progress Report

October 22th, 2024

First of all!! Hi Belder!!

True!! I feel a need to check them even though 99.9% of the time there's nothing pressing for me to respond to and keep up on.

But well, honestly, 99% of the time I spend on social media is not spent growing my social media!! It's just scrolling and scrolling and scrolling...

If I must grow on SM then I'll work on that after I kick it's overwhelming influence on my attention span. A big issue is I'll do good but then finish a commission, and then spend a lot of time checking SM to see the notifications for that commission... And blow my previous self restraint outta the water. Then I go back to just scrolling and scrolling....

I figure I'll just have to dedicate certain times/days in the future to SM management. It'll be nice once bluesky gets the ability to schedule posts so I can load some up and walk away!!

How'd yesterday go though?

Great! But the early days are always the easier ones, right? You're full of pep n vinegar, excited at the new ways you're gonna change your life, before it becomes rote and boring and you're back to your old ways.

But what I want, is exactly that!! Boring!!

I need to make my brain enjoy the simpler things in life! To enjoy the process of work because it's the amusement I'm feeding it!!

I got a full 8 hours of work done yesterday!!!! I've been building up to that since I've been in my bat crunch period (the first I've had since I fucked my back doing the last one lmao) so it's nice to finally hit that checkpoint again. 6 Hours is a victory but getting in a solid 8 hours is the ideal, ya know?

I spent half of yesterday working to youtube videos, mainly a lot of "why u should quit social media/how to focus" stuff because that's what I'm interested in right now. I didn't make any "eureka!" moments obviously, but it's nice to reinforce what I'm attempting to do is something others also think is right, ya know?

The biggest takeaways is

• Do your stretches!! Get up and move to improve your overall health!!
• Don't use your 5 minute breaks to browse social media/do fun things.

I'm a big proponent of pomodoro timing. It's how I track my work. I slam 16 ticks up on my whiteboard every day and erase one for every pomodoro block (25 minutes). The issue is I don't usually take that 5 minute break you're supposed to after every session!!

Instead I just bank them to take a half hour break more often, or just flutter away when I've had enough. That's not how it works though!! Those 5 minute breaks are to tidy up, organize your workspace, do some stretches!

By skipping those, or filling them with things that make my brain happy, I'm just making my brain starve for the breaks when it should be idealy starving for the work, if that makes sense!!

It's hard to focus when you're watching the clock for that next chance you get to fuck around on your phone!

So after I felt I got enough reinforcement outta videos I slammed on some lofi beats and admittedly read some of the twisted wonderland event story while I worked lmao. Which is better than just listening to youtube videos imo, seeing as it's always pulling teeth to make me read story content in games and especially gacha... So that's a win! I'm taking it!! I'll daisy chain my way down from least to most effort of things to do while I work with Youtube at the Easiest and Nothing as the Hardest lmaoo, I'll get there!

I actually did a good job staying off social media as a whole yesterday. Did I occasionally jump on for 30 seconds to clear notifications and at worst maybe see the top couple posts? Sure! But spending at maximum MAXIMUM 10 minutes throughout the entire day on SM is an amazing change from the hours I was doing before. So I'll take it! As long as I can avoid scrolling I'll be able to keep the demon at bay!

Today's recommendation

Anyways one of my favourite artists joined bsky and followed me yippee (Them following me doesn't matter but it did help me find out that they finally made one!)

I ask you once again her to read her comics!! I think all of them are free at this point (previously the one shots were paid content, but now they have extras if you chuck her a few bucks instead). You've heard me recommend Spellcross before and you will hear me recommend Spellcross again in the future by god.

You can find them all here!! [Link]

The easiest entry point would be obviously, the one shots. If Wandering The Infinite Dungeon vibes with you then jump right into Spellcross, you won't be disappointed!!