NOT ONE OF MY FINEST…

What can I say? There are no excuses. I just wasn’t productive today. To be fair, I DID a lot of stuff. Just didn’t spend much time on any of the important stuff long-term.

THE WINNER IS WHO GETS UP LAST

I could beat myself up about it. Or, accept it. I didn’t have a good day. I don’t have a cool new program or update to share. So, here’s the plan. Call it a night. Get up early. Try again. Mathematically speaking, if I keep doing that, I have to have another amazing day like yesterday.

NOTE: On a positive note, the fund had a good day. Too bad I didn’t advance the skills needed to automate the strategies I’m currently employing manually.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

1. Keep expectations low…ankle level is best. Yesterday screwed me up. It led me to believe I’d be able to bang out a fully functional, usable program in the language I’m learning everyday. Not realistic I know. But, that’s what I felt.

2. This is a marathon…that I’m treating like a sprint. The reality is learning things takes time. Why do I think I had to spend four years in college to get a Finance degree, 2 months in a data science bootcamp to pick up the basics, 3 months in a software engineering bootcamp to pick up fullstack development, but I’m going to learn a whole new language in a week or two? Not realistic.

3. Sleep is the answer. Americans work too much. And, I’m guilty of it too. Running the math, I’ve been working for ~15 hours. That’s not healthy. Time to adopt a more European outlook and seek some work-life balance (until I have another good day and get uber excited again).

I’M OUT

Anyway, that’s it. I’m outta here. For all of our sakes, I’ve got to get something done tomorrow before I start getting discouraged. Ah, the joys of knowing your ADHD issues…sucks…but real. LOL.

NOTE: forgive any typos, poor grammar, etc. Some of it was likely because I had no Fs to give. The rest are because I’m tired. If I get time, I’ll edit this post another day.