Neville's Digital Surrogate Brain
The goals for April 2020 include:
#1.) Get NevBlog setup on the new WordPress Gutenberg building and get used to using it. Also install Atomic Blocks plugin and use.
#2.) Hit 168lbs consistent weight. I have a $500 bet riding on this. Setup a little chart infront of the weighting scale with a pen attached so I have to physically write my weight out each morning:
#3.) 10KAR
I’ve been re-learning how to type correctly since February 2020, and I’ve hit a plateau of around 40 WPM.
The reason is I’m still reverting to my original way of “chicken pecking” when I need to type (because I’m so much faster), but as of today I must rip the Band-Aid off all at once and start typing the correct way from now on.
Ughh..even writing this short post was very frustrating because of how slow it went. Anyways, a necessary sacrifice for future fast typing!!
Goals for Feb 2020:
Learn to type:
I literally don’t know how to type correctly. My speed is about ~65 WPM which is above average, and I can type all day without looking at the keyboard, but I only use two fingers (aka I “chicken peck” type):
For someone how is considered a writer by profession, this is kind of hilarious (or sad) 😂
So over February I am going to attempt to break this habit and learn to type properly and get my speed to over 100 WPM.
Book KDP Publish:
As a fun side project I’m putting out a short book about death, largely based off this death calculator. It is about 50% done content wise, and we have figured out how to make the publishing process maybe a 1 day affair rather than much longer.
Goals for January 2020 are as follows:
1.) Write book and publish.
2.) IF stricter (been really lax on eating window lately).
3.) Advisory board pitch deck.
Goals for November 2019:
Social Media Stuff:
Buffer scheduling.
Reddit posts.
Read 3 books:
The Davinci Code (get from library).
Remote (already bought off Amazon).
Million Dollar Consultant (already bought off Amazon).
Write 1 book:
Already got it started, think I can do it. Did it before.
Standing desk:
Sitting all the time sucks.
Standing all the time sucks.
But sometimes sitting, and sometimes standing is awesome!
The goals for October 2019 are as follows:
Workout 5 days a week:
Self explanatory.
Semi-Sober October:
Abstain with exception of once per week….or if something is just really fun 😂
Book per week:
Read 4 books in the month, different genres for each.
2 Classes:
Take two classes in something.
The next step in my finances is to completely replace my income for life whether I work or not.
I heard the quote from a life insurance person “You’re not truly rich unless you can replace your income without working.”
I have since been asking most retired people I know and most wealthy people I know how they’ve setup their retirement accounts.
The wealthiest people I asked have the simplest plans. It actually comes down to a basic equation outlined in my Fuck You Money Calculator. They generally have a big pot of money that sits there earning a very small interest (between 2% and 3% per year) invested extremely conservatively (60% bonds, 40% index funds, no specific stocks). Example:
Retirement Pot: $5,000,000
Yearly Interest: 3%
Interest Per Year: $150,000
That’s the gist of the whole thing. You just keep adding money to that pot growing it big, and then you can live off just the interest. No work involved.
One of my goals this month is to have the entire system setup so this happens automatically:
Roth IRA: Auto maxed out each year.
SEP IRA: Auto maxed out each year.
Retirement Pot: Auto invested.
I’m moving buildings in August, and I wanted to design an office where I can instantly start a call and it looks nice.
The goals are:
As a project I want to do this myself and not employ a designer. So I came up with this idea:
The idea was roughly lifted from a YouTube video I saw on converting a small guest room into an office:
Now in my head this all seems easy and will come together nicely, but we’ll see how it goes in real life 😂
Sometimes when I’m being lazy AF I post internally to KopywritingKourse that I’m doing work and sharing my screen. Because I know someone might be watching, I don’t goof off and instead do solid work.
I wanna do this publicly more often. I did it a few weeks ago (FB live seemed like easiest option), and when I’m back in Austin more often I’d like to start doing it more often.
It’s not really that exciting for anyone to watch (4 hours of me sitting there being silent), but it does help ME finish work that I otherwise would procrastinate.