Procratination Took An L

TODAY WAS A ‘W’

I’m proud to say I did it. I beat procrastination. I know, I know, it’s a miracle. But it’s true.

I had a full day of meetings today - usually the perfect excuse to not get anything done. But not today. Today, I won the productivity battle…we’ll see about the war.

THE PLAN

Here’s how I did it:

  • I got up early (7:30am - it hurt).
  • I put down enough caffeine to kill a baby whale (don’t judge).
  • I mixed in building an actual project with my go-by-example tutorial work through.

What did I build? My own task manager. (To be fair, it’s essentially a clone of a program called Task Warrior - see the end of the post.) It helped me track what I wanted to do and progress.

Well, the caffeine has given me a headache. So, that’s it. Another day, I might dive into how I created TaskArchon (cool name?).

KEY TAKEAWAYS

  1. Even a broken watch is right twice a day. There are not enough data points for me to declare victory. But, as Ice Cube said: “Today was a good day.” I guess just keep trying is the real lesson.

  2. Early to rise and early to caffeinate. I attribute 80% of my productivity to Coca-Cola and 20% to getting up at 7:30am. No discussion. I stand by this message.

  3. Build something. My mentors have both told me this for a while. Well, it turns out experts are…experts. Having something to build was motivating and helped me feel productive.

I’M OUT!

See you next time. Same bat place. Probably not the same bat time because I’m horrible at keeping routines.

My ultra-cool task manager go application: https://github.com/dataninja-python/my-taskArchon/tree/main

That other task manager app that was only like 99.9999999999999999999999999999% of the inspiration for mine: https://taskwarrior.org/

Please don’t sue me. I’m just trying to learn to code.