Happy Valentine's Day to myself and everyone. Do I love myself more than I did last year or 2 years ago? Yes, especially more intentionally doing so. Going out of my way to take care of myself for the long term is one of my highest priorities and I imagine it will always be. From the biweekly circle to just more time throughout the day to be a better person, to lot more journaling tactically, creatively, and introspectively, I've grown up so much in the almost 1 year since COVID hit the US big time. AND I still have a lot to be better in terms of so I welcome that constant battle.
Worked the majority of the day on the personal finance project yesterday. Realized I needed to update my budget template that I've used for the past 3 years b/c it's not giving me the insight or accuracy that I need. So spent an hour or two adjusting that. Then updated the data tables accordingly to make it ideal for Power BI Visualization. So finished those reports and downloaded the app so I could take a look whenever I wanted to technically. It's not real time or anything but very accessible. The first couple months I moved to ATL in 2018 I was also all in on this, but that abated gradually. Up until now I had been financially reactive, but my challenge for myself now is to be way more financially proactive. To make the best decisions for my future self.
Also received feedback this week that I can try to be more realtime with the content that I'm publishing. Obviously that takes more effort on a more frequent basis but I might try to have 2 days a week where I edit and publish content so it's only a 3-4 day lag instead of a 7 day one. Agile principles at work! Get the MVP out → user feedback → iterating and improving, so let's continue to grow like that personally. During the feedback, I think I may have come across as defensive with why I'm doing it the way I am now - more time and energy investment issues. So I need to do a better job of accepting any feedback, get all their pain points or areas for improvement (accept it), and then take it back with me to see how I want to proceed so I know that they're heard in the moment.
Saw the video that Sifu sent with Shi Guolin doing the 8-piece brocade and it just has so much power AND grace. The movements are so precise but flow so naturally. I want to get to that stage in my life. That'd be sick.
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