Hacked Man

Measuring a Man

"If you can't measure it, you can't improve it."

If I'm running a self improvement project, I'd better have some measures on what counts as improvement. Even though actually improving is nice and all, there has to be a way to notice it and track it, to keep motivated.

As I'm focusing more on softer developments (better sleep, clarity, general awesomeness) instead of . . .

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June 24, 2014

Meditation

What? Why? How?

Meditation was the first idea that I had when thinking about hacking methods. There has been quite a lot of research done on meditation and the benefits range from relaxation or pain suppression to actually growing a bigger brain.

He was list in meditation by Skyseeker

There's lots of different meditation types around, out of which mindfulness meditation . . .

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June 23, 2014

What about productivity!

Where are all the productivity hacks?

If you look at the first batch of things I laid out to try, you might notice a pretty obvious omission: no productivity hacks at all. I haven't picked any tools or methods to try to raise the amount of emails I answer or processes I map at the office, for example.

The main reason for this is that I don't need productivity . . .

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June 22, 2014

Beeminding my business

Laying down goals, setting up spirals

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A motivation book got me motivated so I decided to put up a bunch of Beeminder goals:

  • Use Trello actively and write 2 blogs per week for Hacked Man
  • Get to bed before 22:00 at least four nights a week
  • Read at least 20 minutes per day (edited)
  • Meditate at least 4 times a week, 15 minutes a session (edited)
  • . . .

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June 22, 2014

Things to test

Smorgasbord of self improvement

This is a sort of short and dirty list of things that I suppose are things I want to try out during the project. Some I have tried before and got results, some are things that are pretty commonly thought as being good for you. There will probably be a separate article on most of these later on...


Exercise

The first . . .

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June 21, 2014

The Motivation Hacker by Nick Winter

Tools to pull off Hacked Man

Logical place to start on a self improvement project is to ensure you actually have the motivation and the tools to make some changes. Bunch of ideas and a started blog don't a superman make. I got Nick Winter's The Motivation Hacker suggested to me as one option, so I read it through.

The best thing about these sort of . . .

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June 21, 2014

Euphorics

On times when everything is brilliant

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There are times when everything is better than anything. When you just want to punch the air and giggle and take a dancing step because... well. That's the thing. Usually something nice has happened, but not always. Sometimes everything is just great and there's no single explanatory reason.

I get these quite often, . . .

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June 21, 2014

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