On days when you don’t feel like it My past few days have been cripplingly demotivating. Our progress with dreamsquad is slowing a bit. The initial exciting phase of ideation where we draw trajectories upward on the whiteboard is now being met with the reality that upward trajectories take a lot of work, a lot of testing, and many struggles. How today went Today was slow. I didn’t do much. Played a lot of chess games and worked out in the morning....
The importance of setting goals Fail to plan, Plan to fail. I first heard the above quote when I was in high school, sometime around when I was 13. It sounded like a truism, then again, one that I intuitively related with. We don’t achieve goals we didn’t set out for. Running on the premises that: Life is filled with temptations and short-term candies Forgoing short-term temptations to put in effort takes conscious effort Any goals that are worth achieving requires effort and investment Then, planning or setting goals is the battleplan to success....
Preface It’s been 2 months since I last published here and on youtube. What happened in that timeframe? I met great friends in ipoh, went to Jing Wei’s marriage, started developing my work site, and played chess (Loads of chess). Am I happy? Is that enough?