this might be a good place to collect a few observations about video games that recently became obvious to me.

video games changed the timing of my thinking in some ways:

>pausing

a video game i can just stop whenever it is convenient to me. if someone calls me and i want to respond, when something was cooking (back when i ate cooked food) and i wanted to check on it, when there is something urgent happening or even an emergency i just hit the start-button or hit spacebar or whatever, the game halts and waits for me.

when there is a difficult part in a game, i can pause and take all the time i need to come up with a good plan and then resume time when i feel ready.

REAL LIFE DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY! you can never pause, there is no such thing. time is a continuous river that can not be contained.

life experience taught me something life-affirming about this though that i would not have expected as a young person and did not know about until i experienced it myself: when you need it the most if you can succeed in remaining unafraid, your brain changes the frame rate and slows down time for you to 1 fps! i experienced this multiple times during skating. i fell and could have easily injured myself seriously but i didn't. time slowed down when i needed it most and in that split second for some reason i found all the time in the world that i needed to come up with a good plan on how to swing my arms to make my upper body rotate in a way where i can absorb the energy that was about to slam into the floor and roll away unharmed like i was sonic the hedgehog.


>reloading

in many video games i can save and load whenever i want or at least at several points throughout the game. when i make a mistake or if one of my decisions on what to next was bad, i can go back in time to a point in which i did not make the mistake and choose differently.

REAL LIFE IS NOT LIKE THAT EITHER! unfortunately nothing like this exists in reality. mistakes are permanent. you can not go back and relieve your childhood without doing the mistakes.

maybe that's why video games are fun, because they don't matter and mistakes are meaningless in them.


>expectation of things being instant

a few years ago i remember being annoyed that when i try to manifest something, that i can't just do it in 10 minutes but there are just tons of points in which i can't continue and have to wait for someone or something else to occur and just can't continue and that i have to interrupt.

so when my though processes are used to video games where everything is instant and plans can be implemented in seconds, i guess i got in the habit of believing everything can be instant in reality too and some kind of expectation or entitlement became the basis of my though process that HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH REALITY.

everything is so slow and tedious in reality. ordering something on amazon the moment i needed it and then having to wait a week for it to arrive often interrupted projects i did and i could never pick them back up once the thing arrived. this is almost shameful to admit but waiting for delivery has on occasion taken the wind out of my sails until i got used to how slow everything is outside of video games.

one more thing on reloading not being possible IRL:

that's one reason why i like using a paper system. in a system on the computer i can just re-arrange words and sentences endlessly until it is perfect but when i use paper, i have to like what i write enough to commit it to paper. sometimes i tear a paper appart and start a new one when i come up with a better way but more often then not i make a rough version 1 and then a way better version 2. that makes the system i am using to bring something into reality a microcosm of reality where i already have to adhere to the specifications of reality.

I've got this problem where I dedicate a lot of time to one skill or hobby over a certain number of weeks or months, and then I'll switch over to another hobby and do the same thing. But then when I come back to the first hobby, I've forgotten basically everything I learned, or lost whatever articulation I had with a particular skill. It's like starting over every time I try to return to a beloved hobby.

>>76295
>>76295
> I've got this problem where I dedicate a lot of time to one skill or hobby over a certain number of weeks or months, and then I'll switch over to another hobby and do the same thing. But then when I come back to the first hobby, I've forgotten basically everything I learned, or lost whatever articulation I had with a particular skill. It's like starting over every time I try to return to a beloved hobby.


i also noticed this, mostly with computer stuff i only do every so often. there is something i have been doing about that, maybe it can apply to some of your situations. i learned this from the programmers, apparently they have long known about this.

whenever i learn something new that i am sure i will have forgotten by the next time i could use it, i write the most important things in a text file.

i have a specific folder called DOCUMENTATION and all those text files go in there so i always know where to look later to see if maybe i made such a file. let's say i am learning the commandline-based videoeditor called ffmpeg. the commands i am using, i am collecting in this textfile knowing already i will have probably forgotten them next time. so i am writing little tutorials tailored to myself and what i expect to be doing with whatever i am writing about. if this was today and i was learning the program, i would create the textfile

2026-04 ffmpeg.txt

the reason for the date (2026-04) in the beginning of the file name is that way i can kind of remember when it was. when i vaguely remember that i did this half a year ago, this helps me find the file the moment i am looking for it. i sort by name and can look at all the little files i wrote chronologically and since it aren't that many, it is easy to find. since i also include the name of the program (ffmpeg) search function / filter function will also find it.

another thing i do is trying to tell one person (or one imageboard since i don't know many people) vaguely about it or maybe even teach one person who might like to hear about it a few things about it and then not only do i learn it better, there is someone else who benefits who might later remind me or tell me something cool about it or about something similar.

with more athletic, tool-based or physical stuff i noticed i don't get worse, i noticed when i am inactive in one area i don't get worse at it, i get better but slower and what i have to relearn is the speed at which i am doing it. same thing with talking. since i am hermit and don't talk to people all that often, i get very slow at talking irl and building sentences but after a while of talking with someone, i regain the speed.

HOPE THAT HELPS YOU BIG BOI, DON'T BE EATING CANDY NO MORE, CANDY IS POISON UNFORTUNATELY AND YOU HAVE TO WALK IT OFF WHILE ONLY EATING CUCUMBER AND BANANA. that bird better be knocking all the candy out of your fingers before you can eat them!

>ideas on paper scraps
for a time i would always write things i want to do on scraps of paper and just place them somewhere close, hoping they would magically get done later and then they never got done magically later. took me years to get past that. i kept and kept doing this without things i wrote getting done.

sometimes i would try using paper calendars instead of scraps but unless i was using them to count working hours, i would never follow through with using them because i never even looked inside my calendar.

>to do lists didn't work all that good

sometimes little piles of scrap would form and then sometimes i would make todo lists out of that pile and place those todo lists somewhere close and then often forgot about them.

i only ever did a few of the things and barely ever everything and what i wanted to do just grew cancerously while i would ignore it. for decades my systems were shit. i only got done very little.

i still don't like to-do lists. i have something now that is pretty close to a todo list but when i first started i encountered something i hated that i still hate. i would have a todo list and do a few things and then i would want to start another list while the old list was still incomplete. i guess i hated the idea of having two lists so i would always carry over everything i didn't do from the old list to the new list. i still consider this agony! this is so awful it almost wants to make me go digital with it but i don't want to involve electricity in my planning when everything else is already electric. and there is a reason for it:

>ideas sometimes fly away from me so fast that literally every second counts.
having to wake a computer or phone out of sleep and then opening the file or the app or the file explorer where the file is in SOMETIMES is already enough of a burden for the idea to fly away again. yes my creativity is this brittle, volatile and delicate. i could get distracted with something else i have open or i could habitually visit some website or open some app and poof half the idea might already be gone, then i would feel that the idea has lost some weight and i would be angry about it POOF half or the remaining half gone too! this was worse when i had apps installed where i could just scroll my phone forever to get interesting pictures. i don't have this anymore because i hated how i would do this any time i had 5 seconds of idleness.

after understanding this i knew i wanted a system that is always reliable, free of distraction and not dependent on having battery remaining or electricity working.

>>76308
Thanks, I appreciate the tips! It's funny, I kinda do that too with scripting, including ffmpeg. I'll write little example bash scripts for my future self to give myself working examples for the types of things I normally use it for. I don't date them though, that's a good idea I'll start doing!

Other areas are like... Blender, I got really good at modeling for a while, with good topology and everything. And then I got on a job for six months and when I came back to it, I lost that intuition for how to approach a model. Or I also try to learn violin, and I'll be making progress but then my wife will be off work for a while so I can't really make my screetchy sounds, and when she's back to being gone again, I've lost what I had been practicing a far as finger positions, bowing technique, etc.

>>76323
>I'll write little example bash scripts for my future self to give myself working examples for the types of things I normally use it for.

usually all i bother to do is a short explanation and the command and if the textfile is small, i bother to put the thing i most likely will use at the top of the textfile but in the case of ffmpeg i made what i called an ffmpeg arsenal ^^

i made a textfile that just has commands for different resolutions and quality levels, listed one underneath the other

>Other areas are like... Blender,
i noticed this happening to me when i force myself to learn something because i assume it would be useful to know in general and then not immedeatly use it for something. i wouldn't even know how it affects instrument use, i have not been making music with an instrument since childhood. strangely with skating when i take a break from it and then come back to it, i suddenly have unlocked more of my body and can make bigger movements, though slower.

one more thing i wanted to say about video games making the brain think in terms that are incompatible with actual reality:

>inventory
in a video game you can just find and hoard things easily. this sets up the wrong expectations.

in pokemon red/blue you don't have an infinite inventory but you can just find stuff lying around on the road and put them in your backpack. one of the things you can put in your backpack is a bicycle...

managing belongings in real life is way harder, space is way more precious. stuff has to be left at the side of the road way more often because you see how people referred to as horaders live: every little space of their appartment is filled with junk that they hoard, sometimes they do have some organizational structure underneath like geological layers of a mountain but it seems like inevitably the system becomes overcapacitated and then suddenly a layer of trash or dirty dishes builds up on top of the mess at which point it is over and mold starts to grow and rats move in and stuff like that or cat pee is burried underneath some pile.

dragon ball with the capsules are also an example of how fiction just flatout refused to deal with the horrible burdensome reality of owning things. unless approached intelligently this is a nightmare.

it's not just pokemon and dragon ball, but most games. i can think of very few games who try to at least somewhat limit inventory space to more realistic dimensions. resident evil 4 is a game i played where the player begins with a very small inventory and can only carry a few weapons which forces the player to leave perfectly good weapons behind. i remember how annoyed i was when i first experienced this in re4. at that time i was lucky and owned so little that it was only a small nightmare. now i own way more but i have a great system where i can make use of every little space in my tiny space of living and most of the time with very little exception i can find what i am looking for.

the only game that i thought did it just right is a procedurally generated car adventure game for pc called JALOPY. it isn't perfect but you actually have to manage the trunk of the car using physical limitations.

i play a lot of factorio and factorio is as unrealistic as can be in terms of inventory. you can keep like 50 rocket silo in your inventory and just plop them down on the ground in 50 seconds and they are instantly ready to go no setup whatsoever. the difference between the convenience of building something in factorio and building something in real life can make a sane mane crazy.

while on the topic the way video games handle belongings sets up one more false expectation: being able to find what i own. that's a big problem that drove me mad before i solved it. i knew i had a certain thing or tool but i just couldn't find it. i knew it was somewhere but i just could not get to it when i needed it. then weeks later when the opportunity to use it was over, then i would randomly find it burried in some crate that i had packed because i just quickly wanted to gain space in this narrow hell that my appartment used to be before i revolutionized the way i organize my belongings.

the early zelda games did have link carry around a few tools but since they began introducing moster loot around the time of windwaker link's inventory became ridiculous. link would need a truck to carry all the shit he has in his backpack these days...

>>76348
A lot of old first person adventure games were like this. Myst never explained it, although they only allow you to hold one page at a time. In Journeyman you can be "carrying" about 20 things, including weapons, vials of chemicals, gas masks, etc. Being a time travel game, they explain that you store all these in a massless null time pocket but we all know that's bullshit

after overwhelming the thread with problems and observations of failure i would like move towards something useful finally.

>the certain goal and the uncertain goal.

i noticed that there are simple things i might decide upon doing that could not be easier and more straight forward to deal with.

)wash clothes in the washing machine
)clean windows
)carry glasswaste to the public container
)buy bananas and cucumbers

these are all easy tasks that involve no creativity, research, risks or leaps of faith. i would know exactly how to do them. if i wrote them down somewhere, and that jolt of electricity (the decision) would be made to do them, i would be able to start them instantly without hesitation; unless it was night. i know how to do it, i just have to do it, there is nothing for me to climb over.

other tasks are more complicated and i don't really know everything about how to complete the task. i know i want something but i don't know how to get it. those tasks i treat differently. i don't just write them down on a list, i have a special place for them where they have space to evolve into something that is more certain. this method is based on a belief i have:

>when i can see something i believe to be complicated just clearly enough, what to do next becomes obvious.

i genuinely believe i can reduce complexity by visualizing it and turning it into small steps. that way a mountain too intimidating to climb starts transforming and soon begins to look like stairs. stairs are way easier to climb.

>>76374
>Myst never explained it, although they only allow you to hold one page at a time.

i didn't know there are games that made inventory harder then reality. i don't think i completed myst, that's badass that the protagonist turns out to be one-armed!

>the A7 index card

these are cards made from colored slightly thicker paper with lines on them, orientation is landscape, not portrait. those can be found in many stores where i live so when i am out, i am sure to find more that are the exact size. also there are a few boxes/cases that already fit them perfectly available for purchase. i built two boxes from paper but both where not as nice and userfriendly as one i bought from a pen and paper store that i am currently using. mine look retarded but it was fun using them. i glued an old video cassette box to one of the paper box to turn it into a box for pens, which i still miss on my new box.

for a while i tried writing all the things i wanna do on those cards but then when it was something trivial like 'wash clothes' i noticed i would have cards in there so simple that would never use all the ~10 lines of space each card provided so i felt like i was spamming my card stack. i didn't want to bloat the card stack with these easy cards. still not fully satisfied with this but it has already been working good for me. the reason i am not satisfied is the thought of not even having any other system. just cards. managing my life would feel like playing yu gi oh, these cards are amazing to hold and flip through. they add a very pleasing physical sensation to my day.

i like how this is like a to do list but all the other entries are beneath the current visible entry on top, so this obscures the rest of the to do list to give the whole attention to just the thing on top. singleminded focus without trying to be all over. i was hoping this would help in crystalizing priorities and making sure to do the more important things first. too early to tell, i really only started minding priority for a few days. so far it is working a little i guess MEANING THE NEW FOCUS ON PRIORITIES. THE CARDS ITSELF WORK AMAZINGLY FOR ME. I HAVE A STACK OF HUNDREDS OF COMPLETED CARDS. first i would just rip them in half when i completed but i started collecting them and now i like looking at this stack getting bigger. is a girthy stack!

one card like that gives me the space to grow an idea over the course of many days/sessions of thinking about it while not forgetting whatever small amount of progress i may have made. also having this space of the ~10 lines for each idea gives me a place where i can collect idea that just ambush me throughout the day. i would do something unrelated and BOOM an idea about one of these cards would hit me and i would quickly find the card and write it on one card as to not forget the stroke of genius again. pen is always near the cards as to waste no time! ideas are rare and precious and they come when i don't expect them so with a system like i am always ready to quickly write them down to a space i can later find. this fights the problem of forgetting stuff i wanted to do.

here is the way that evolved that i write on them:

i turn each index card upside down so that the big space for the headline is at the bottom and then i write each uncertain idea on an index card and i write the goal at the bottom in this big space meant for the headline. the reason for that is the approach of knowing the goal but not the way. i start at the goal and then walk backwards (writing upwards from the most bottom line) until i find a way that i am able to walk at which point it becomes the best order of reaching it, conveniently already broken into several more easily chewable bites. i just start at the top to manifest them then. i noticed this helps when venturing into uncharted territory. i also like to paint little checkboxes (or progress bars just like on a loading screen of a video game) next to items so i can track the progress just on this one card. it is fun to watch these card get populated with text, symbols, chekmarks, crossouts and emojis. the more complete they are, the messier they get. by the end they look worn down, dirty, bent with crooked edges and with smudges and doodles on them 🤣

>>76374
>Being a time travel game, they explain that you store all these in a massless null time pocket but we all know that's bullshit

makes me think of 'the end of time' in chrono trigger where they just created this hub where all the different times are conveniently available.

>just step into the light bro and then when you exit the tunnel you are at another time

>>76384
>what is trello

that's digital though.

>Trello was acquired by Atlassian in January 2017 for $425 million

fuck all the way off with your proprietary for-profit garbage, surveiled consumer cattle. go back to facebook, this is an imageboard you are in the wrong place.

>>76397
>Pomodoro method

how do you keep track of all the things you want to wind the eggtimer up for?

what is the method to decide which goes next?

what do you do when while you work on one thing and you get a really good idea about another project that you have in the pipeline and you don't want to forget it?

how do you keep track of the progress of one project when it turns out it needs a few more egg timer sessions?

what is your method to include the current weather in your planning?

brave ai:
>The Pomodoro Technique is a time management method developed by Francesco Cirillo in the late 1980s that breaks work into 25-minute intervals called pomodoros, separated by 5-minute breaks. After completing four pomodoros, the user takes a longer break of 15 to 30 minutes. This structured approach aims to improve focus, reduce procrastination, and prevent burnout by limiting distractions and ensuring regular rest.

>Simple as

why 25 minutes when you can set 5 minutes for small stuff 10 minutes for medium stuff and 20 minutes for more complicated stuff. clearly this is designed for students who have like 4 different courses and did not know how to divide their time between 4 big subjects. what do you do when you have 75 to 150 projects at any given moment because you live in the information age.

having rules about how long a break is seems excessive, seems like whoever is doing the pomodoro doesn't really want to do the thing in the first place and has to train himself/ force himself not to do it. that's for people smart enough to pass the course but not smart enough to question if the course adds anything useful to their life thinking their degree will open them doors -_-

... yeah doors to corrupt places you'd never want to work at if you knew what they were really like beyond what they say about themselves through clever marketing designed to fool people...

i tried using different colored cards for different things. might have made it easier to find a card once but other then that i would not recommend. i have not found a good system for what kind of card gets what color. i tried separating in
>work related stuff
>tech related stuff
>creativity related stuff
but so far this doesn't feel right. i think i like it better when i can not see what kind of card it is based on the color.

one things i have not talked about that these cards are good for is changing of habits.

habits are everything. they let you set the course for the autopilot of your body. once marketing is widely understood as a warcrime, people will want to take the power back over methods of propaganda and determine for themselves what is advertised to them. the index cards are one way to do this already.

not only do i write ideas for things i want to do/have/achieve on those cards but also i write habits i want to cultivate. and then just reading the card a few times is all that takes to remind myself of them. all these little "i really should do ##########" get their own card.

>waking up at a certain time
>going grocery shopping early in the day when the fatties are sleeping and all the good stuff is still there and it is not crowded
>doing some exercise early in the morning
>not spending the evening doom scrolling
>no longer buying the unhealthiest thing you eat

turns out in my life it really was that simple to change a behavior by writing it on a card and then reading it a few times whenever i scroll through my card stack. sometimes i write the date on the card. if i created a card today for running around the park for 10 minutes, i might write the date next to it 2026-04-06 and then as i re-encounter this card when i scroll my stack, i can add lines to see how it is going. something like
>so far i have not done it once 2026-04-12
>i did it twice 2026-05-05
>only did it once more 2026-06-12
>finally i did this every morning 2026-07-01
>working good, daily walking 2026-08-15
>other then on the weekend i did it every day 2029-09-18

btw i came up with this method because i hated how doom scrolling made me feel sad and demoralized and i wanted to find something i can scroll that makes me feel good. so i called the looking at those cards

>bloomscrolling 🌹🌺🌻🌼🌷🪻🌱🪴🌲🌳🌴🌵

>>76384
>what is trello

lets take this unfortunate corrupted soul and use the disgraceful suggestion of proprietary technology meant to enslave humanity into cattle and turn it into something positive, an example for liberation and growth using the method i am sharing.

lets say i am this npc corporate automaton HR-pet of a person and i notice i am using something negative like trello. how would the card look like and that could be used to change the negative unconscious behavior?

like this. i write the thing i want to have happen in easy plain language in the big bottom line and add that card to the stack. even if this is all i am doing now and not come up with any more details, i am seeing this every time i scroll through my stack. this is already more then nothing, this already sets some little gears in motion. it communicates an intention to the subconscious (potentially more intelligent, more long-term-oriented parts) of your brain.

THE INTENTION IS SET, THE GAME OF IMPROVING YOUR LIFE HAS BEGUN

>>76463
>proprietary technology meant to enslave humanity

Hey uhhhh what phone are you posting this from g

>>76469
>Hey uhhhh what phone are you posting this from g

not a phone but a 15 year old used thinkpad that is running linux.

if you are looking for a non-enslaving phone i would reccomend to you fine gentleman either
>a pixel phone where you put graphene os on
(since the installation for this is so very easy)

or

>some other phone with a custom rom (like a fairphone with lineage os)
(that's not as easy, you need to use a real computer with command line to copy files to your phone via usb-cable and execute them yourself in developer mode, though the guides on how to do it are good and not that difficult, especially when you can ask all your stupid quetions to brave ai who will patiently explain every single step to you that you don't understand, resulting in you actually getting smarter in the process)

dwelling on the example a bit more, first time i would deal myself that card, this is what i would write on it.

the little boxes are so i can make a checkmark into this later or half-fill it to indicate i have looked half as much into this question as i plan to.

this did happen to me during my first playthrough of re4. i hoarded and cursed that i had to leave weapons behind but then i always had tons of grenades i hardly used and ended the game with tons of pimped out guns i barely ever used. i could not even enjoy the jetski ride because i was busy regretting not being more wreckless.

i conserved all the fun out of the game with my famine thinking.

currently experimenting with tiny index cards. they are small and cute, a8 size. i was lucky and found an old plastic box (intended to hold a package of cigarettes) with the head of a tiger on it and it is also striped in tiger colours. it has a very satisfying opening mechanism. anyways beeshes the cards fit inside the little tiger case together with a tiny pen, well is not a pen exactly, it is the replacable ink-tip meant to refill an exhausted pen so i have pen and cards contained in the tiny cigarette-packages sized box.

the intention behind this little box is to maintain a small set of cards where i only keep a handful of important things i don't want to forget. the few things i am currently doing with the highest priority. the few most important things i would ideally not let anything get in between.

who knows, maybe this will help me not do everything but the most important things. currently tired of how i make these special to do lists (i have not yet explained ITT) and manage this long box of cards and it feels like an office job maintaining my lists and cards and trying to construct days based on them feels like an old-timey occupation. i have done it this organized long enough so i am pretty good at making the best of my day and it became trivial and feels like mindless busywork. i want it to feel more intuitive and effortless for a while.

>>76594
That's because human instinct was adapted to survive, not thrive. Before the days of the industrial revolution and free market capitalism humans were forced to ration everything and live within their means to survive long-term, stocking up on basic essentials was how you survived long winters or periodic famines. The Great Depression reinforced that way of thinking over the years again. Our brains are literally wired to salvage, stock up on goods, ration basic essentials, prepare for harsh winters, etc. Think of this as a good thing honestly, you still have the ability to survive in the real world. People who no longer have that instinct will die in real world crisis.

>>76707

while i don't disagree with anything you say there are disadvantages to living in survival mode. like considering yourself a survival machine when the human conciousness allows for humans to be much more. there are vast treasures hidden within the human organism and when someone takes the survival aspect of human life so serious as to never even look inside because all the time is taken up by gathering and storing potentially valuable and being worried, those treasures are never found.

when shit doesn't hit the fan or only slightly hits the fan, then it would have been better not to prepare so hard and instead live a litte.

>>76384
There's some open source alternatives to that you can try out.

Just search for it online

>>76594
>this did happen to me during my first playthrough of re4

Happened to me too but in the RE2 remake playing with Leon instead.

testing from phone browser

despite having all these manifesting technologies at my disposal i still feel the overwhelm. i look at my little box of about 200 things i would like to accomplish, i look at the new little subset tiger box, i look at my monthly a5 list, i look at my daily a5 lists and it feels like it is too much.

i guess part of the process that i am still not good at is to just ignore this dreadful sense of overwhelm, hold my eyes shut and just look as far as i have planned because if i don't, the overwhelm will stun me into inaction.

i keep thinking about a program (free and open source running locally without using the internet for anything) that probably is rather easy to code, that i could feed with all my projects and then based on parameters i set would just calculate what the best use of my time would be.

i'd just HIT ME WITH ONE! and it would give me the most important thing to do and i would not have to waste half my time on trying to keep track on what to do next.

because basically that is all i am doing with all my time management efforts so clumsily, what thing from the 200 things i foolishly put on my plate should i do next and since my plate is so full, i am locked in indecision on what to do first.

🥴 that is another thing i noticed may have been affected by me playing video games for so long. in a video game it is so easy to instantly do 50 things one after another but irl i struggle even though it should be possible.

>>76739
One day at a time, one small step for mankind. Everything cannot be done all at once. Progress and success takes a lot of patience and time.

>>76776
>One day at a time, one small step for mankind. Everything cannot be done all at once. Progress and success takes a lot of patience and time.

this visualizes the feeling rather accurately

one thing i have never seen anyone talk about is how do you keep the manifestation going when you are having a depressed day and get nothing done.

i remember when i would use a paper calendar and made plans for wednesday and then wednesday comes and the depression hits, i would sit there the next day and see at this page that i planned and did nothing and that would make me depressed again, so my planning has the potential to prolong the depression even. make it worse!

that is way i tend not to plan too far ahead and not keep records of days. new day, new page, rip appart the old. if my life wasn't this complicated maze i had to navigate where i can only do certain things at certain times, i would not use a timetable at all. i have to be home before 4pm or otherwise i will not be able to find a parking space. before i understood this i sometimes roamed around for an hour before finding a parking space and it is miserable.

with everything i am doing, i still believe i am overlooking something obvious that will just let me unlock my full potential because this isn't it. it must be something small and stupid that i am just not seeing. some colossal mistake i am doing that i am oblivious to.

this is depressing, i apologize, i hope this dank video can make up for it.

this is by fat the best tool to make good use of the limited time i have found. i made it in libreoffice. is just an empty page with reduced margins that i placed a 3x24 cell table on

the time flows from top to bottom. the upper most line is 00:00; the beginning of the new day. the bottom most line represents 23:59 (11:59 pm); the end of the day. the minutes are left out because they only bloat the thing.

this is a tool to plan and track a day. i print these out (two on one regular sized a4) page and then i cut them in half to have the smaller a5 size since my printer prints a4 only.

there is space on top to write the name of the day. the weather can go there to. that's the first thing i would reccomend when planing or tracking a day because to me what the weather is like changes everything.

the mystery why the numbers are in the middle and there is space on the left and the right shall soon be revealed, though i would appreciate any guesses. this is supposed to improve a life? yes!

>>76980
>one thing i have never seen anyone talk about is how do you keep the manifestation going when you are having a depressed day and get nothing done.

This has happened to me before, sometimes it is best to just take a break and walk away from something that is stressing you out too much. It may not be easy putting it aside though but sometimes you have to in order for you to keep your sanity. Another thing you have to keep in mind is discerning between projects you NEED to do vs projects you simply WANT to do. Always focus on what you need first and foremost, if you can get something you want done just consider that a luxury, not everyone has time to do whatever they want to do. If you have that kind of free time consider yourself very lucky because most people do not.

>>76980
>>77040
Right now I have to choose between two projects today, I need to start gardening and planting my tomatoes, or I can work on fixing a laptop which had a file system corruption on the old Operating System, which needs to be repartitioned and everything re-installed and reconfigured which will take a while. I figure my garden is far more important right now because I do not want all those tomatoes to die before planting them. I'll be doing that soon. The laptop I just have to save for a rainy day. None of it I really feel like doing, I just have to focus on one thing at a time.

>>77040

>This has happened to me before, sometimes it is best to just take a break and walk away from something that is stressing you out too much.

yeah. that's the reason i don't believe in making plans too detailed because then when i get stuck i can't continue and usually it cascades into everything else i had planned to go down with it. that is why i tried to find a system where i could just resume when the dark clouds have passed so that i can get back right to doing something once i can. often the result of a depressive phase is that i forgot all the things i had going so this system i am using are like the breadcrumbs that help me find my way back to what i was trying to do.

>Another thing you have to keep in mind is discerning between projects you NEED to do vs projects you simply WANT to do.

need vs want is not that big of a deal for me, i am pretty quick at dealing with the needs. though in a larger sense that is something i only recently got into, trying to spend more time on the things that have a higher priority.

>If you have that kind of free time consider yourself very lucky because most people do not
i don't consider it a matter of luck or a luxury, i merely sacrificed enough and worked hard enough to get good in the past so i can be in this position to deep dive on creative approaches. there are levels of survival i was willing to accept that others did not. i don't take it for granted, i want to make the most of my time because i know it is precious. i don't consider the process of manifestation a luxury. self-realization, creative expression are fundamental to human existence and being too busy with other things leads to braindead people too pre-occupied with their necessities to understand how many traps are around. when you look at the consumer decisions of your precious 'most people' you inevitably uncover easily preventable mistakes and irresponsibility with money. a better life is within reach for people. what i am talking about in this thread are the tools to grab it.

>>77041
that's a respectable approach.

now imagine you have 45 things going instead of 2.

this distinction represented a real breakthrough for me.

when all i had was one column in a standard paper-calendar i can buy in a stationary store, i would make a plan at a certain time and then things would get in the way and i had to delay and i noticed i was busy trying to make my calendar look like a diary and make sure that it accurately represents what i actually did that day. i would cross stuff out and write it in at a later time. or use whiteout and i noticed i was constantly busy re writing my day because stuff got in between.

the reason i believed this was a valuable approach worth reifining is that it gives me a birds eye view of the day. i recently found out that this deep belief i have held, is actually so common that they named it some kind of law. the law of 'something': seeing a problem absolutely clear is half the solution. and i believe this to be true.

usually when i am overwhelmed by something, i find some way (usually involving big a4 or even bigger a5 sized paper) to visualize the situation in a mindmap/flowchart style and when i have sufficiently visualized something, the solution becomes so obvious, that it jumps at me.

even planning nothing, just using the day as a diary i found to be a powerful motivator and reminder to use my time wisely. this is what the right side is for. it is a diary but not like a teenager's diary all about heartbreak and depression but about baseline stuff. when i woke up, when i went to bed, when i fell asleep, when i ate what, when i drank what, when i pooped. this thing helps me keep healthy.

one example is when i have off days where i can't do anything and instead revert into the videogame addiction of my youth. all it takes for me to break the spell is to be completely unhinged about it and write it into the right side.

it is one thing to waste a day and then forget about it and get away with it.

it is an entirely different beast when you are present while you are doing it and keep track of it on paper so that at the end of the day you can see what you did.

IMAGINE SEEING THIS WAS YOUR DAY. isn't that motivation enough to question it and try to make better use of your time? the only way unconscious bad habits can survive is when they go under your radar. well? THIS IS YOUR RADAR!

just seeing a day like that is enough to give me the feeling of "oh shit, i can't keep living like that, life is precious i need to make good use of my time in this short life"!

if you understood how sneaky the unconscious works, you would agree that this is an incredible tool to keep you informed about yourself.

all the stuff i would use a calendar for, i only write on the left side. i just make a plan of the things i am trying to do that day. i roughly try to write it next to the hour were i intend to do it. especially the left side does not have to be time-accurate. it might be, but on some days i have no idea so i just write it at the top, left of the 0.

now the final step is that when i do something, i don't write it on the right side, that is too cumbersome. instead i make a quick circle around it and then i draw a line to when i did it on the right.

i noticed something in my efforts that was always missing from my planning: on some days i would not do the things i had plans, because i thought of way better things to do. i would make the executive decision to make even better use of my time and change plans mid-day. i wanted my calendar to reflect this in a celebratory way.

then some days i would look at my calendar and it would depress me that i got so little done that i had planned but then i remembered what i actually did (this was before i invented the 2-columns) and i was struck with my own stupidity: WAIT A MOMENT, WHAT AM I DISAPPOINTED FOR, I DID SOMETHING WAY BETTER THEN I HAD PLANNED AND MADE EVEN BETTER USE OF MY TIME AND I ALMOST FORGOT ABOUT IT AND FELT BAD FOR NO REASON! WTF?!

with this harmony of the left and the right side i thought it was easier to leave room for being spontaneous because too much planning makes everyone a dull boy i'd assume.

>>77041
>which needs to be repartitioned and everything re-installed and reconfigured which will take a while

i remember the days where i installed windows and installed all the programs and set up the browser and changed all the settings in all the places and in all the programs and just hating the process.

now using linux whenever i set up a new computer, i just copy over the entire homefolder and down to the gadgets on the desktop everything is how i want it.

i hated windows so much (and it is so much worse now). i curse them for having no respect for the user whatsoever.