Heading into 2020! | No time for lookbacks | Biweekly Report 174,175

12 Jan 2020 . category: report . Comments
#radicali #startup #singapore #bombay #fitness #lookback

Hey all, it’s been a while. This is the first report that spans two decades, and hopefully won’t be the last!

Ushered in the new year in Bombay with family, met up with a few college seniors on Carter’s road, had a lot of unhealthy food and took a flight on the first day of the year - back to Singapore. I had done an intense leg day on the 31st, was so difficult walking through the airport XD

I had wanted to write a yearly report for the blog, but didn’t get enough time at home to reflect & look back. When i came back to SG, i headed out to a park and journalled there for an hour - but somehow didn’t feel right to put things out to the world. Feels like i’m still in a tornado, and want to see this through before putting out my thoughts about work & life.

Last weekend, i was down with a cold that lasted till Monday night - made my weekend unfocussed and also half of Monday spent in recovering.

On the work front, last week was a good start to our sprint. I started writing some Golang, which has been a nice learning curve - always good to keep the programmer’s mind active! We had a few interesting meetings, after which we started thinking about our Q2 plans as well. It’s a long game, we all need to stay focussed.

On the fitness front, this week has been good but could be better - got in 2 runs & 2 workouts. Wanted to get some tennis on Sunday, but it just wasn’t meant to be! The fitness goal for 2020 is to stick to a 3RUN-3WORKOUT-1TENNIS schedule as much as possible, i know i’m not in a position to take up any major binary goal - so will be working on consistency. i can see visible differences in my body from last Jan, where i used to be much more regular at the gym - need to get after it.

This weekend has been very restorative & productive. i’ve noticed i relish to-do lists, whether they be at work or at home - it always keeps me on check. Did a reset on my whiteboard with January goals as well. This year’s major personal goal is to be at peace. This is not easy. I’ve noticed that my mind is in overdrive when i’m working and takes at least 1 hour to get back to normal human mode. Being driven and stimulated is good, but there needs to be a sense of peace internally as well. It’s probably not something that is binary, and needs constant work forever. Just like everything else.

Later.

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