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See also growth plateau: 江河日下

* Memorable? I won’t bend over backward to make this blogpost memorable. Right now it simply lacks a good title to be memorable. 升 is shorter than 进步 i.e. improvement. I will hope to make at least some items memorable.
* Unique? Yes I want to make this blogpost unique. Let’s avoid the familiar themes, and focus on the unsung heroes.

PFF and gz are usually not lifestyle.

• [i=internal, often fundamental change in attitude, focus..]
• [d=detachment needed]
• [q=sustainable improvement? questionable]
• [w=wellness]
• [v=vague]
• [z = zqbx required, as we hit resistance in the improvement journey.]
• [$=entails a non-trivial level of lifestyle creep]

— (worthy of a standalone bpost) Improving on my already-comfortable carefree lifestyle.. 更上一层楼. more wellbeing to the xpSelf

dissatisfaction blackholes .. offers another viewpoint on the same list items. That viewpoint is negative (BLACKhole)

I want to avoid yet another forgettable blogpost. I want the list items to be highly specific, selective/discriminatory. Need to avoid the familiar, high-level or vague items.

• [w v] early rise ..
• [z] more standing? Currently 1-2H a day though my intuition tells me “insufficient”.
• [z] daily yoga increase to 3 minutes
• [z] coding drill .. some fuxi or some new problems
• more math facetimes .. extremely time consuming but worth it
• — the familiar,
• [z] BMI deep green zone
• [z] recreational piano
• more smoothie, less solid foods

— (worthy of a standalone bpost) tiny lifestyle 升 to be singled out and celebrated (organized by category, unsorted)

• I stitched my pockets to be handphone-friendly
• suction lamp for mosquito
• hook/clip for MRT card
• — tech .. such as [dq$] wpress@dhost
• [dq] low cost 2-printer setup ≠ creep
• laptop lock [ff] to reduce my worry
• gd2 alias to reduce git conflict
• [d] no worry about idd calling card expiry
• [dq] unlimited outgoing minutes
• See also laptop habits
• — wellness ..
• [w] push-up with mat (knee cushion)
• [w] My lotus@mrt practice is improving. I now sit on a plastic bag, so my pants are well-protected and my worry and suspicion about invisible dirt is significantly reduced.
• [w] workout without expensive stuff ..  I can now use stairs, lunges, jump-rope, yoga block, exercise mat, jump-rope .. low cost and useful
• [q] easier flossing, with handles

— major lifestyle 升.. Note I want to focus more on effort, less on results.

• recreational MOETF .. active learning under low stress .. would be improvement on lifestyle, but for many people the effort becomes for-profit rather than for-fulfillment/fun
• [w] a lot more veggie salad, thanks to maid
• [w v] yoga reboot
• [w] more chia
• [w] elimination of starch and fat in office, under work stress. I used to eat many snacks of biscuits, nuts, .. esp. in late afternoon.
• [w] family dinner skipped most of the time
• [w] starch — quit rice for 2 months from Sep 2019
• [z] raw veg, smoothie, delay meals
• [w] ice cream — now buying small pieces not in bulk
• [wq$] classpass .. better than realYoga not only in price
• [w] late dinner habit
• [w] resist: dinner on the table when not hungry
• [w] cake history habit
• [q] intimacy? Not sustainable 🙁 but let’s just enjoy when we are able to
• [dq] much more time on reflective writing [emails , blogging ,,]
• [q] base camp protocol with boy.. Is it lifestyle improvement?
• — time mgmt
• higher productivity on commute .. see separate blogpost
• recreational xx using print media .. see blogpost
• .. more reading vacations, esp. in office, rather than on commute
• fewer movie trips, more workout on each trip
• Reduced the frequency of outing with boy, to a more realistic level. Those trips help bonding, but at extremely high tcost and not cost-effective at all.
• free books + mag, as a recreation, less movie
• [v] more quiet idle time … ?
• [q] weekend hours spent on projects, to massively reduce weekday work load
• carving out quiet hours in office: mornings, evenings, weekends
• — familiar lifestyle 升
• [i] /repertoire/ of new workouts .. stairs, squat, boxing, jump-rope outside office,,,
• [w] temptations identified — wrong food, wrong time, wrong qty
• [wq$] home standing desk, with headphone. To sweeten the deal, I set up A95 + lamp + printer
• [w] 11pm craving effectively managed
• [w] home-made milkshake