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My Journal Entry For Wednesday 9th November

horse racing

Morning Routine And General Diary

My morning routine didn’t quite go to plan today as I woke up at about 3:30am and therefore decided to publish a change that needed putting live on our booking system product, PlanIt-BookIt. The change was to get people to opt in to getting their scores published on a proper league ranking site called Squash Levels.

Du to my early rise I ended up getting up a little later than I normally would. Still followed most of my morning routine though, including reading out loud my new affirmations that I created yesterday and then trying to visualise myself doing them.

I started the morning with a call with my business partner Steve, together we deleted all of the assets associated to an old Azure server that we had. Needed to do this to reduce our monthly Azure server costs.

That said, I didn’t progress too well as I got side tracked, the profit shown on the emails form the horse gambling bot didn’t match the profit shown on the exchange website. I hate not understanding something, so I decided to go through every email, 2 for every race and there were 30+ races yesterday, matching each email to the actual profit or loss shown on the exchange website. It turns out that one race the bot thought we had one on, that the horse later got disqualified, so we actually lost, hence the discrepancy!

I’m running horse gambling bot with a different strategy today, while yesterdays was just profitable, it didn’t really improve on what we had before.

Still doing my Keto diet today, the weight is still falling off me. I was down to 111.95KG or 247lbs and was weighing in at 114.05 or 251lbs only two days earlier! So I’ve lost 4lbs in 2 days, that’s not bad going! Still been having a few beers and the odd glass of wine at night too.

Late in the day got an email from one of our main booking system customers asking us whether we could supply them with a bespoke EPOS system. Steve and I are going to discuss this on Friday morning and get back to him with a proposal.

Food Diary

12:30 pm I had a cheese and ham Omelette, so very low on carbs

Tonight’s planned dinner is chicken pasta, I guess I will just have to have it without the pasta.

I made a lovely chicken and ham, arrabbiata style pasta and I was good and avoided all of the pasta, I just had the chicken and ham source, plus a big chunk of cooked ham as I was making the dish. So hopefully more pounds to be shed tomorrow.

In the SAVERS acronym R is for Reading

My goal today is to get to 65% complete of my Miracle Morning book. I’ve cut this back yet further, the reading is great and really helping me, but because I am taking notes at the same time in this journal it is taking way too much time.

It may be better to just block out either 30 minutes or 1 hour for reading and stick to that. That way I will have more time to focus on the business growth and improvement tasks!

My starting point for today is location 1875 of 3144 60% complete

My completion point was location 2114 of 3144 67% complete

In the SAVERS acronym, S is for Scribing

My learning from reading a tenth of the book…
 
I need to be creating a vivid vision, a tool that looks 3 years into the future and then works backward to achieve annual goals. This all requires super focus. It’s about doing the right things.
 
Need to move from being busy to being productive.
 
Have a room for focused efforts, mine is my office in our basement, it’s usually a little cold, but I think that actually helps me if anything. 
 
Make sure that the room is free from clutter, strangely enough, in the last few days I’ve been slowly decluttering my office anyway, I remember the importance of a decluttered, clear space from my days running Lean workouts at General Electric. My office is slowly looking a little more organized. I’ve been aiming to hide away, throw or tidy just a couple of things a day, and now it’s starting to pay off.
 
Some questions the book says to pose in terms of having unwavering focus:
  1. What’s working? Do more of
  2. What do I need to start doing? To accelerate results
  3. What do I need to stop doing? Holding me back
I like the above questions so much that I think they may need to be added somewhere in My Core Journal
 
At the end of the week, you need to make a list of everything that you have accomplished. It’s about praising yourself for what you have achieved. Perhaps an Accomplishments page again somewhere linked to this journal. To remind me to do this I’ve scheduled it as a recurring weekly appointment every Friday at 3:30 pm. My old boss in Corporate land, who I had little respect for, by the way, used to hold team meetings at 5:30 pm on a Friday night, What a ******!! 🤣
 
It says to try a technique called Pomodoro for doing tasks. Where you basically focus all of your attention in 25 minute sections. I’m going to try an App called Forest: Focus for Productivity – tried it quickly, just a graphic of a growing tree and a timer, I cancelled and then it wanted me to watch an ad to delete what I’d done. Don’t think it’s going to be for me!
 

My Core Journal

 

What would make today great?

Focus on 2 to 3 Important tasks per day
 
Work in bite-size chunks or do thin slicing to recall some book I read ages back. 
 
Follow pomodoro (25 minute tasks) – 1) Decide on task 2) Set timer 25 mins 3) Work until timer rings (any distractions write down and them immediately return to the task) 4) When timer rings place checkmark on paper 5) Take a 5 min break 6) 4 checkmarks take a 15 to 30 min break
 
Today I really need to make some progress on my customers’ website, I created a new affirmation just for this task. Not sure that’s quite right, as it will hardly be life-changing, it would, however, slightly add to my monthly revenue, so definitely some positives from completing it!
 
I actually failed again today, didn’t achieve anything of major importance. I think getting up to publish my PlanIt-BookIt changes, while important, threw me off track a bit as then I got up late and ended up in an impromptu meeting with my business partner.
 
 

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