Day #139 - Time with myself

It's a day of me time, looking at reno stuff, and attending a friend's newborn celebration.
Got reminded of an old korean drama that I like a lot, A Gentlemen's Dignity.
The drama describes a close group of 4 men, their lives, and their relationships.
I wonder if my current group of friends will become closer, or further, as I age into my 40 in 10 years time.

Goals of the Day:

1. Plan today and tml's schedule
• Done
2. Examine the air-con trunking solution from the renovation open house
• Done
3. Have a good evening with friends
• Done
4. At least 30 min of video editing
• Done (did around 1h30min)

Just a day more focused on myself and the guys.

Today's Small Wins:

• Did significant amount of video editing
• Quality time with friends
• Did planning for the weekend
• Found a solution for air-con trunking issue 

Today's Small Losses:

• Slept and woke up late
• Didn't meditate
• Wasted some time gaming

Day #138 - Finishing Work Week

The last friday of the month!
Time to wind down and just leave all my worries aside for today after work, and intentionally go have some fun =_

Goals of the Day:

1. Focused at work
• Done
2. Organize a good interaction session with my colleagues
• Done. Had a really good time playing the bomb defusal game with my colleagues
3. Quality time with the Guys
• Done. Had soccer and supper with them

October is coming~

I promise myself this time I will get the blog post on my financial accounting out for the coming month.

Today's Small Wins:

• Fulfillment of all my goals today
• Quality time with guys

Today's Small Losses:

• Woke up and Slept late
• Didn't meditate

Day #137 - Booked an adventure!

This morning, I have finally booked my adventure to New Zealand!
Woohoo~!

Goals of the Day:

1. Settle flight tix to New Zealand
• Done
2. Settle Wedding prep stuff
• Reserve table for 14 Oct
• Done, but reserved the wrong restaurant after proudly telling Dearest. haha..
• Look through car rentals for Actual day
• Done
3. Quality time with Dearest after work
• Had a good evening =)
4. 30 min of video editing (at least)
• Undone, didn't have that much time between activities

Today's Small Wins:

• Had quality time with Dearest
• Settled the wedding ring design
• Booked a trip to new adventure!

Today's Small Losses:

• Didn't meditate
• Slept late
• Woke up late
• Didn't manage to do the video editing
• Not focused at work because of fatigue from staying up last night to look at tickets

Day #136 - Mid-week Thrust

Woke up early to a good start of the day!

Goals of the Day:

1. Be focused at work
• Done
2. Fulfill the schedule set out today
• Done to around 80%
3. Interval Training (3 x 1:45m, 3 x 1:55m)
• Done 
4. Finish diary update for 20 Sep
• Undone
5. Handle prioritized wedding tasks
• Push to tml

Decided to rent a campervan for my new zealand trip!

But first, gotta find time to book the flights.

Today's Small Wins:

• Exercised
• Did 6 intervals, averaged around 1:40
• Meditated for 10 min
• Had a small talk with an old friend, who is going to deliver soon
• Woke up early for work

Today's Small Losses:

• Slept late
• Didn't manage to finish diary update

Day #135 - New Zealand Trip?

I have decided on a New Zealand solo trip.
It somehow got sparked off from a Facebook post promotion on Sunday, and I have since been seriously considering it.
Time for some planning!

Goals of the Day:

1. Be focused at work
1. Achieved
2. Plan finish the week ahead
1. Done
3. Finish diary updates for 20 Sep and 22 Sep
1. Done for 22 Sep and 24 Sep, Undone for 20 Sep

Busy day at work as usual for this time period.

Another colleague came back from his studies to spread the workload. haha..

Today's Small Wins:

• Meditated for 10 min
• Did diary updates for 2 days
• Planned my week ahead

Today's Small Losses:

• Didn't wake up @ 6am sharp
• Didn't sleep @ 11pm sharp
• Distracted with Facebook when doing personal work

Day #134 - I Can Feel My Energy Coming Back

Kinda feel like my motivation to do work is slowly getting back.
Perhaps it's the pressure to settle wedding arrangements, or it's the effects of the good rest.
Whichever the case, I should capitalize on them.

Goals of the Day:

1. Be focused at work (i.e. minimize browsing of unnecessary stuff on the internet)
• Very focused today
2. Plan for the day
• Somewhat
3. Plan for the week ahead
• Somewhat

Busy day at work~

Today's Small Wins:

• Woke up early
• Meditated for 10 min
• Did some planning for the week; not complete though

Today's Small Losses:

• Slept late

Day #133 - If Not Now, Then When?

I kept reminding myself this when I was out jogging this morning.

Goals of the Day:

1. Plan schedule for today
• Didn't do. By the time I have time to do, it was evening already.
2. Have a pleasant time with Dearest and her family to shop for watches
• Done
3. Finish off the diary updates for the week
• Undone
4. Plan schedule for the week
• Undone

Basically today is not really a productive day.

After spending time out, it was already late noon when I got back home.

An hour of rest, then I went to do house chores, dinner, and spend the rest of the evening researching on an upcoming trip.

Today's Small Wins:

• Exercised
• Meditated for 10 min (between my runs)
• Quality time with Dearest and her family
• Discussed some wedding arrangements with Dearest
• Did house chores

Today's Small Losses:

• Didn't plan for today and the week ahead
• Didn't complete my diary updates
• Didn't sleep early

Day #132 - Dragging my feet

I could feel that I'm getting less motivated to do work, and feel more emotionally repressed about not doing things that I enjoy.

Goals of the Day:

1. Quality time with colleagues (@ house warming event)
• Done
2. Personal Work
• Undone
3. Exercise
• Done

A short house warming event took out a large part of the day.

The latter half was taken care of by my reluctance to do anything else. 

I don't even feel that relaxed. 

Today's Small Wins:

• Exercised for a good 1 hour
• Meditated for 10 minutes (session felt good)

Today's Small Losses:

• Woke up late
• Slept late
• Time loss from all the useless things I did

Day #131 - To End The Work Week On A Good Note

It's the final work day of the week.
Handling multiple things at one shot, and leading in them too.
I shall make a conscious effort to end off this week on a good note by being organized and productive with my work.

Goals of the Day:

1. Re-organize work tasks based on latest meetings
• Half-done
2. Quality time with Dearest after work
• Done

Finally got back our wedding photoshoot photos from Perth.

We reviewed them after dinner together.

Today's Small Wins:

• Had a nice evening with Dearest
• Focused at work

Today's Small Losses:

• Slept late
• Didn't meditate
• Woke up late

Day #130 - Back to Work

Jiayou-ing

Goals of the Day:

1. Read at least 1 article at work
• Done
2. Be focused at work
• Done
3. Do personal work for 1h
• Nua for the night, didn't do. tired. =(
4. Habits-Building - Meditate and Sleep early
• Meditated, but didn't manage to sleep early

Drove to work because of the rented car from yesterday, but got caught in the morning jam. Sigh.

Wanted to do get inspired to do work, and thought of downloading some inspirational quotes as wallpaper.

Next thing I knew, I spent $4.50 on Wallpaper Engine on Steam. hahaha..

Today's Small Wins:

• Efficient at work (keep it up!)
• Meditated

Today's Small Losses:

• Woke up late
• Resulted in loss of time during the drive to work
• Didn't sleep early
• Didn't manage to do personal work

Day #129 - Dearest's Bday Celebration!

We both took leave to celebrate her birthday =)

I have planned a day of activities for her to relax and enjoy~

Hope she likes it! >_<

Goals of the Day:

1. Have a good celebration
• Achieved!

Today's Small Wins:

• Had a great time with Dearest

Today's Small Losses:

• Slept late
• Didn't meditate
• Woke up late

Day #128 - Staying focused

Doing my best to stay focused at work and managing all the work tasks.

Goals of the Day:

1. Focused at work - schedule all the work tasks
• Done
2. Finished the plan for tml's bday celebration =)
• Done

An exhausting day at work.

Along the way back home, I remembered a quote, "If not now, then when?"

Some officer said it to me during my Basic Military Training SIT test, and that was probably how I got into OCS.

May I remember this well.

Today's Small Wins:

• Meditated
• Productive at work

Today's Small Losses:

• Woke up slightly late
• Slept late
• Personal time due to Work OT

Day #127 - A bit overwhelmed with work

Feels like there is quite a lot of work to be done within these 2 months.

Goals of the Day:

1. Be focused at work
• Done
2. Clarify the work tasks required
• Done
3. Meditate & Sleep early
• Meditated for 10 min and going to sleep by 11

Quite a lot to handle at work as expected.

But it's becoming more clear of what needs to be done.

Just gotta do it.

Today's Small Wins:

• Woke up early
• Meditated
• Moderately focused at work

Today's Small Losses:

• Personal time - did some OT today
• Didn't exercise

Day #126 - Trying to start engine

It's hard to, but I still want to try.

Goals of the Day:

1. Exercise
1. Done
2. Personal Work
• Undone
3. Video editing
• Undone

Gotta do better!

Today's Small Wins:

• Exercised - ran from sembawang to chong pang market
• Quality time with guys

Today's Small Losses:

• Didn't keep to what I planned
• Didn't meditate
• Slept late
• Woke up late

Day #125 - Saturday with Dearest =)

It's the 1st weekend since I ended ICT!

Goals of the Day:

1. Quality time with Dearest
• Done
2. Facebook photos selection with Dearest
• Done! Uploaded to Facebook!
3. CPF decision with Dearest
• Undone - didn't have time for this

Today's Small Wins:

• Met up with a potential contractor for our renovation =)
• Spent quality time with Dearest
• Selected and uploaded pictures from our recent trip

Today's Small Losses:

• Didn't meditate
• Didn't wake up early
• Didn't sleep early
• Didn't do any personal work

Day #124 - Medical Appt

Going to hospital for a checkup on my throat after having worries that my throat has problems from all the sore throats over the years.
Not sure whether I would have time to do my personal work after that, or do I have to go back to work.

Goals of the Day:

1. Exercise
• Rainy day, didn't get to exercise
2. Video Editing (at least 1 hour)
• Did around 2 hours

Full day MC~

Kinda let myself go and played games and relax for the rest of the day.

Today's Small Wins:

• Video Editing until Tasmania Day 3
• Helped mum with bank accounts

Today's Small Losses:

• Didn't exercise
• Didn't meditate
• Didn't rest early

Day #123 - Right shoulder hurting again

Seems like my old injury is back.
Or perhaps I should get a new pillow. haha...

Goals of the Day:

1. Identify critical work tasks
• Done
2. Personal financial administration - transfer family allowance, rebalance bank accounts, check past records
• Done

It's strange how tired I feel after I got home from work.

Like there's no energy to do anything else except for rest.

Today's Small Wins:

• Did personal finance management
• Act on improving my sleep by purchasing a new pillow 
• Meditated for 10 min
• Moderately focused at work

Today's Small Losses:

• Didn't have energy to do personal work at the end of the day

Day #122 - Back to work

First day back to work after 3 weeks of being away!
Shall get things started!

Goals of the Day:

1. Understand what is to be done this week at work
1. Didn't have enough time at desk to do this
2. Personal administration - finance, tidy my room
1. Only did the tidying
3. Resume habit of meditation
1. Done 10 minutes

It was a long day at work.

By the time I reached home, I didn't really have much energy left.

But still manage to have a good conversation with Dearest before we rest for the night.

Today's Small Wins:

• During an observation at the exercise, my suggestion was taken in and integrated into the final product
• Meditated for 10 min
• Slept early

Today's Small Losses:

• Ate too much during tea break
• Didn't do personal work

Day #121 - Last Day of ICT

Goals of the Day:

1. Be diligent and thorough in executing my duties for the day
2. Rest early for work tml
3. Meditate for at least 5 min

It's been such a busy day since I booked in in the morning.

At the end of the day, it's just a bit hard to do other stuff.

Today's Small Wins:

• Being as thorough as I could for my army duties
• Woke up early

Today's Small Losses:

• No personal work done.
• Slept late
• Didnt meditate

Day #120 - Focus on a task

Back to camp, but not staying in at night.
Decided that I should just focus on a single task for the day - which is to do my video editing.
Otherwise, when I get back to work, I might just leave it one side.

Goals of the Day:

1. Video editing till Tasmania Day 3
• Didn't have time to do
2. Be focused on task when there are free time instead of whiling them away
• Undone 
3. Meditate 
• Undone
4. Sleep early
• Undone

I think being in camp is seriously wasting time when you don't have a proper place to have your own space.

Today's Small Wins:

• Received a plaque for being the Best Commander of my company for last ICT
• Had a good rest
• Woke up early

Today's Small Losses:

• Didn't meditate
• Didn't sleep early
• Time wasted -_-"

Day #119 - Time for Family and Dearest

It's the last Sunday that I could cast my mind off work.
The plan is to spend time with my family and dearest.

Goals of the Day:

1. Quality time with family
2. Quality time with Dearest

Today's Small Wins:

• Booked a rental car to drive my family and dearest around, which I think they enjoyed
• Quality time with Dearest; had a good talk on what we can do better when we are fighting

Today's Small Losses:

• Didn't meditate
• Slept late

Day #118 - Resting Day

Booking out of camp and having lunch with my army mates to catch up with them.
After that, would head home to rest in order to have energy to spend quality time with Dearest =)

Goals of the Day:

1. Spend quality time with army mates
• Done. Had a good lunch with them.
2. Have a restful day
• Done.
3. Spend 1 hour on video editing
• Spent maybe around 15 minutes

Today's Small Wins:

• Quality time with friends
• Quality me time by resting at home
• Woke up early

Today's Small Losses:

• Slept late
• Didn't meditate
• Didn't finish off the goal on video editing

Day #117 - Duty for the Day

It's my turn to do camp duty for today.
The busiest morning I had so far. haha..

Goals of the Day:

1. Finish off the duty's work asap for the day
• Done by early evening
2. Generate the graphs for the financial blog post
• Done
3. Video editing till Tasmania Day 2
• Done

Today's Small Wins:

• Woke up early
• Slept early
• Personal work done for financial blog spot and video editing

Today's Small Losses:

• Didn't meditate
• Short periods of time wasted

Day #116 - Quiet Moments

It's quiet and peaceful here in camp, especially when the whole bunch have booked out for the night.
Creates quite a good environment to focus on my own work.

Goals of the Day:

1. Exercise
• Done. (ran 6 rounds with some static exercises)
2. Work on organizing the financial inflow/outflow data
• Done

Today's Small Wins:

• Got myself to do some exercise
• Had a good talk about work stuff
• Did personal work
• Slept early
• Woke up early

Today's Small Losses:

• Had to eat canteen food for dinner because I didn't get the cookhouse dinner early enough
• Didn't meditate

Day #115 - Midway thru ICT

It's officially the 8th day of this 14-day ICT.
Midway through.

Goals of the Day:

1. 1st draft of financial blog post
• 25% done
2. Exercise
• Undone
3. Meditate
• Going to
4. Sleep early
• Going to (time check: 2327 HRS)
5. Complete video editing until 1st day of Tasmania
• Got to just before the 1st day

Had to settle quite a bit of things for the day.

Therefore, didn't have the luxury of time like previous 2 days to do all the things I set out to do.

Today's Small Wins:

• Did some work on drafting out post's contents
• Did some video editing work for the trip (completed the perth's part)
• woke up early
• Have more energy compared to previous nights (but Dearest was a bit tired to chat)

Today's Small Losses:

• Didn't exercise
• Sleeping slightly late
• Didn't manage to complete most of the goals today

Day #114 - Carry on

Nothing much is happening in camp today.
So I shall cherish my free time away from work and distraction to focus on my goals.

Goals of the Day:

1. Come out with a concrete output for the week
• Done - A blog post on financial outflow from Jan 2017
2. Plan the week ahead
• Not done
3. Exercise and Meditate
• Not done
4. Take the chance to talk to some of my unit mates
• Chatted with a few of them

It's too warm to nap in the day in the bunk.

And somehow past 10pm, my body just feel very tired -_-"

Today's Small Wins:

• Did work on gathering the data for my financial outflow
• Now I just need to draft out what I want to say in the blog post
• Resumed editing of the video I was doing during my flight back to SG for my recent adventure with Dearest
• Slept early
• Woke up early

Today's Small Losses:

• Didn't exercise or meditate
• Didn't plan for the week ahead
• Still not that productive with my time in camp
• Need to be more strict with myself to not waste time away

Day #113 - Thinking what to do in camp

Finally, in my 9th ICT, I have really nothing much to do in camp.
To make good use of my time, I decided to bring my laptop and tablet into camp.
Hoping that I can make good use of my time in the week ahead.

Goals of the Day:

1. Plan for the week ahead and decide on a concrete output to be out by Friday
• Not Done
2. Exercise 
• Ran 2.4km
3. Ensure I have adequate energy to have a good chat with Dearest at night
• Didn't really have much energy, 

Today's Small Wins:

• Exercised by running 2.4km
• Talking to a friend to understand his situation
• Sleeping early

Today's Small Losses:

• Didn't manage to plan for the week ahead; just for today and tml
• Still feel sleepy when it got past 10pm; need to rest more during the day
• Didn't meditate (would be able to do it in bunk as my bunk buddy stays out)

Day #112 - Going to Have A Good Sunday

It's the first Sunday since I got back from my trip.

Time to be productive!

Goals of the Day:

1. Exercise
• Done (in the morning)
2. Pay Credit card bills
• Done
3. Plan out my day for today and the coming week
• Didn't managed to do for the incoming week
4. Organize and upload photos to (i) computer, (ii) google photos, and (iii) Facebook
• Done except for Facebook 

Somewhat productive day in achieving the goals I have set out to do.

But half the day was also spent on hunting for the "mouse coin", which is an ongoing event locally. 

Today's Small Wins:

• Exercised for 1h
• Meditated for 10 min at the stadium
• Woke up early and helped mum with chores

Today's Small Losses:

• Slept late
• Didn't pack my stuff for camp tml until last min

Day #111 - Back in Action!

It's been 14 days since the last update because I was away for my wedding photoshoot and holiday trip~
Time to get my engine started on this again.

Goals of the Day:

1. Pack my room (too messy after I got back from trip)
• Done
2. Settle my financial accounting for the trip
• Done
3. Settle my financial accounting for the month of August
• Done

Managed to complete all my goals for the day!

Need to extend beyond my sleeping time though.

Today's Small Wins:

• Completed all my goals for the day
• Financial accounting done for the trip and the month of August
• Meditate for 10 min (going to do now before sleeping)

Today's Small Losses:

• Woke up late
• Sleeping late