Implementing the Principles of Success or at least working on planning and discipline seem to start to pay off as even today, when I started kind of late and had the feeling I had planned too much for the day I still managed to do everything I planned,even though, again, I ended very late. Like right now it’s almost 2 am, so actually time to relax and sleep.
And maybe the most important thing I am doing the last few days is NOT doing things. Like I was very much affected with what Globe and Smart, my Internet Service Providers and the two biggest. and in many areas basically only, Internet Service Providers in The Philippines are doing. And it kind of ruled my life, like everywhere. When doing work, when doing private things on the internet,when reading my IFS e-mails, when reading and writing in Facebook.
And it still kind of does, as right now I am too scared to open my IFS e-mail and I am too scared to open my Facebook account. As I know I am easily carried away with this stuff, unorganized writing and complaining. So yes, I am not opening it from fear, but maybe even more to make sure I won’t be carried away with it and ending up being very emotional about it.
So I am planning my actions more about it. And other actions. And I started to plan further in the future. Like the last one and a half year I have kind of been living from day to day, planning from day to day, too scared or whatever to look in the future, towards the future. But yes, I organized my days through the segment intending and daily to-do lists. And a few weeks ago, somehow in a kind of natural way, I started to look further ahead. Plan things a few days away. And actually it is starting to work out fine, as now I just plan things, things I like and things I don’t like. Like I didn’t feel like writing my second letter to Mr. Cu of Globe and Mr. Nazareno of Smart. But I planned some things around it, like creating a draft a week ago or so and an updated draft two days ago and today I had planned something like to finish it. And I just did, even though I didn’t feel like it anymore.
So yes, I need to plan reading my IFS e-mail and my Facebook. But not NOW, just tomorrow or Sunday or Monday. And I am more careful what to plan, what to write on my to-do list for a day. And how to write it, like often I write also things like ‘maybe do this’ or ‘if it fits my schedule’. So I won’t pressure myself into ‘impossible’ plannings. And yes, sometimes I just skip things, don’t do things I planned. But not so often anymore. And it’s a good feeling.
So yes, I’m on the way, on a better way.