Detailed time management

In order to better manage my time, I have decided to schedule in the habits that I want to build daily in my Google calendar (can be seen at the bottom of the blog).

To better visualize the calendar in terms of my progress in the 5 different aspects of changes, I have decided to label each of them in the following colours:

Physical Well-being

Mental Well-being

Finance

Aspirations

Lifestyle

And for planned activities, or activities that I missed, it will be shown in the calendar, but will not be highlighted. So the more un-highlighted activities, the more I have procrastinated on doing them. haha.. Good reminder to tell me I'm not doing something that I'm supposed to. =p

In addition to exercise and Java learning, I have also scheduled in time for reading!

On a side note on my journey to learning Java, I realized that in the notes of the MIT sources materials and the book "Think Java" which the materials closely followed, there wasn't any instructions on how to execute the Java codes using the Java Development Kit or the Eclipse (or am I supposed to use something else?). So I have typed the codes inside the notepad++ (a code editor which I have downloaded earlier for learning Python, of which I have prematurely given up halfway previously), and now I have no idea how to run the codes. -_-" Guess I will go through some spoon-feeding over at the SoloLearn website.

No time?

Well, I have failed to attain 4 hours of learning Java last week.

I thought I would have more than enough time through the week and on the weekends to attain that short 4 hours of sitting down, and looking at the learning materials.

But I didn’t.

Why?!!

Alright. Let me review through my last week schedule to determine the reason and improve from here.

During the weekdays, I thought I would rest at home after work, especially when I wasn’t feeling well (my throat still hasn’t recover yet -_-“).

I thought I could easily get down to that few hours of learning on the weekends.

Although on the way to work, I did manage to look at some of the learning materials from a mobile app called Learn Java (link here) from the company, SoloLearn. It’s a company that seems to specialize in allowing daily commuters to learn things like Java and other programming languages through short videos and short test after every video.

The main advantage of this learning approach is that I can learn it on the way to work; very convenient!

And I also found it more hand-holding than the MIT course materials, which is better for me since I’m a beginner not only at Java, but also in programming as a whole.

But it ate up around 500MB of mobile data within a day of travelling between office and home, which means my mobile data limit of 3GB would burst after 6 days of using the app.

I can’t download the video beforehand too.

So, this app is a NO-GO to use while I’m without wifi connection.

Then how about the weekends?

Hmmm… I was also busy with activities such as spending time with dearest, going to comedy night, going to see grandma with mum and sis, picking up my Spartan race pack, and spending time with my guys (playing mahjong).

All these activities took up my entire Sat and Sun.

Wow.

If I don’t do any planning, I guess my time would be taken up by other activities.

Dearest also advised me to do deliberate planning for the activities that I want to fulfill.

                                                        

Therefore, for a start, I shall aim for at least 30 minutes of Java learning daily during the weekdays, and 4 hours of Java learning during the weekends.

It’s not easy to succeed in life.

But I’m not gonna just live by and die.

*Just found out that the SoloLearn has a website on its own. So instead of learning it on the small screen of my Galaxy S4, I can watch the videos tutorials on my 23" monitor. Link HERE.