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Posted: Wed, 27 Apr 2022 22:33
Last edited: Thu, 28 Apr 2022 20:05
Tags: self-improvement brainpower
I got inspired this Monday to do a dopamine reset. I watched a video about the benefits and it really inspired me. I have also done similar challanges before with much success.
During the resent week I have been researching how to get energy to do stuff during my time off work. I often struggle with having motivation and energy to work on my own projects after work. I have also tried to wake up earlier in order to get stuff done before work, but to no success. My goal with this challange started with me just wanting to reset myself, but have now turned into a journey of research into how to actually improve my situation.
The basic rules of my challange was this:
I will now go through the recent days development
I woke up late (as usual), skipped breakfast because I could not watch YouTube and eat at the same time. Got on to work but got distracted a lot by using Discord on my iPad. After work I played a hanchan of mahjong with some friends and later worked a bit on a Blender mesh. I ate both lunch and dinner in on the balchony in the sun. The food actually tasted better. Later at night I went for a walk. Spontaniously I went to the outdoor gym and did a fairly good workout.
Again woke up late and skipped breakfast. I felt more tiered this day. This day as well, Discord was a big distraction. It actually was the only distraction. I had urges to open Discord on the iPad like I would refresh my Twitter feed. By the end of the day I uninstalled Discord from my iPad and mobile phone. The only way now to read Discord is to start up my personal workstation computer. This is not the same as my salary-job computer. At evening I started reading the book Limitless by Jim Kwik. It was so interesting I wanted to read more, but instead ended the day with a late night walk and some tea in the kitchen looking out the window and reflecting.
Once again I woke up late and skipped breakfast. I did not feel very tiered but I had very little motivation to leave bed. Now this is where things started to happen. I could not open Discord, so I instead read a bit more of Limitless. I may reffer to this book a lot in the future. Then I started work, and I have not been this motivated or productive at work in a long time. I could think of no distractions because all where removed from my surroundings and instead I worked. While I did not have very much to do at work, I started setting up this very blog and writing this article. I took a drive to the gym, not listening to anything but the sound of the engine and tires. In the gym I lifted weights in silence and without distractions of the phone.
I think this week has opened a lot of realizations for me and I hope it will continue to be a good week. Just finding out I had such a bad relationship with Discord was a big insight. And finding how being without it could be such a relief.
I will try write more updates on this.