Congrats on all of it. I don't know how your peers found it, but you sound very relaxed about your initial training - it's not meant to be that chill (unless the army's gone soft of late)...!
Smashing the financials too - good job, Sabaka.
Wow, we seem to have a lot in common in regards to military service and interests in Russian culture. I'll be sure to add your journal to my RSS. Keep going!Sabaka wrote: ↑Sun May 02, 2021 12:26 pm@Bankai
Cheers! Can't say it's anything I'm doing... I'm naturally very lazy when it comes to anything to do with exercise We'll also see how much of that weight gain ends up being fat as opposed to muscle!!
April 2021 Summary
Another month passes, still stuck still. I'm the type of person who always needs to have a clear goal in sight, otherwise I kind of lose motivation in everything else that I am doing. I have been keeping up with language learning, etc however, and these things help to provide some structure in my life. Reviewing the targets I set last month then, here is how I feel I've done with them:
- Continue with my language learning (structured better, less haphazard). - Feel I've done okay in this area, I was using an audio course so it was easy to do. Now that I have finished that course it will be interesting to see if I can maintain good structure next month.
- Bulk (at a rate of approximately 0.5-1kg weight gained per week). - Generally on target, however occasionally I have to eat much more on specific days to make up for lack of progress on others. It would be better if it was even progress throughout the week.
- Read at least 4 books in April. - Big failure, however the book I am currently reading (The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky) is very long.
- Better apply principles of Stoicism. - Mostly a failure, have barely thought about them.
- Don't make any stupid money decisions. - Done okay, still spending quite a bit altogether though.
So not so bad, not so good in terms of my targets.
Regarding finances, things continue as normal... I'm in the process of disinvesting into cash in preparation for a property purchase later in the year. Whilst disinvesting I have been quite lucky with my investments, resulting in an increase of £2,500 in my net worth to approximately £58,500! About 25% of this increase is as a result of my salary, the bulk is from investment returns
Additional targets for next month:
In addition to the targets set last month (which are basically still applicable), I also have an additional target:
- It is essentially to find a girlfriend. This is perhaps my most important target at the moment. So I am actively working towards this goal, however so far not having much luck I also find this process quite time consuming, and much of the effort feels sort of wasted (not dates, I actually enjoy these, but rather the online messaging, setting up profiles, etc).
Well that is about it! See you all next month!
I like the idea of focusing on 3 desires, although one taking up 80% of the time you can allocate to your desires.I'm stuck between a million different desires which are not always compatible. I want to travel, live abroad, learn and read a lot. I want to live on a smallholding, or live in a city and have some sort of societal 'status'. I want to buy an apartment and save towards financial independence. Evidently, some of these desires are not compatible with the others, so how does one decide which desires to pursue and which to not?
As far as I know the only thing you need to get started as a software tester is a heartbeat.