2024: Beneficial Guidelines

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For 2024, I've decided no more routines dictating when I wake/sleep/do stuff. No more rules/resolutions that make me feel bad when I break them. I want to live life more free-spirited, more in the spirit of "live each day as if it is your last", like my hero - James Hunt. Yet still lead a life of discipline (remember, James Hunt still managed to win the 1976 Formula 1 World Championship.)

Discipline = Freedom : Without discipline you have no freedom!

Being controlled by your urges is not freedom!

But life is not meant to be a drag. Life is not meant to be a chore. Yes, I can wake up at 4am to do workouts every day, but only for so long before I start feeling it's too much. Since I've failed multiple times with strict routines, lesson learnt that strict routines are not for me. Instead, now we have guidelines (or recommendations.)

Primary Guidelines for 2024:

  • 1) Love your work! If you love what you're doing, you'll be successful.
  • 2) Work hard! There is nothing wrong with working every hour if you love what you're doing. The fabled work/life balance is a myth.
  • 3) Don't hate!

Time Guidelines for 2024:

Note i: This is all optional for holidays, but recommend sticking to these guidelines anyway.
Note ii: On holidays, we always plan to do fitness (Insanity Workout or Running.)
  • 1) Aim to be up by 0615! (Set alarm for 0555 and 0615)
  • 2) Start productive work by 0730!
    • > 100 minutes between food/drink pourings!
    • Only drink coffee/tea/water.
    •  Only eat fruit/nuts.
  • 3) Supper after 1800!
  • 4) Social Media / entertainment after 1830!**
  • 5) 2130 is planning (for the next day), reading & bed time!
  • 6) Aim to have lights out by 2245 every day! (In bed ~ 2230)
** Social Media = Discord, Facebook, Forums, Instagram, YouTube ... etc.
** Entertainment could be a movie.

Other Guidelines for 2024:
  • 1) Mortgage repayments:
    • Overpay 1 mortgage > £500 every month. (To reduce a monthly.)
  • 2) Dolls:
    • Doll photography on days off only! (Not on work days!)
    • Changing doll furniture (i.e. move dolls from one room to the other / changing dolls in the bed) on days off only!
    • No more dolls in 2024! (I simply have enough!)
  • 3) Dakimakuras:
    • No more dakimakuras in 2024! (I simply have enough!)
  • 4) Porn and S&M:
    • No porn. No porno videos. Sex with sex dolls / dakimakuras only.
    • Only on Saturday, Sunday and Wednesday (too much desensitizes you).
Things to do in 2024:
  • 1) Find time for car events / enjoying your sportscar!
  • 2) Visiting Thailand in February 2024 and Christmas 2024!