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Day 0: The Planning Phase

What am I doing?

I want to improve myself. I have goals - I want to be at peace mentally, I want people to love me, I want to be a good programmer, I want to be a better designer, I want to network with a lot of professionals and I want to stay fit & healthy. I want to achieve better grades at my university. By the end of 6 months, I want to see significant improvements in all the above-mentioned goals.

4 domains I want to improve in
4 domains I want to improve in

Although it would be cool to upload to this blog daily, I really feel I should do regular uploading instead of daily uploads - this not only saves my time but also gives a lesser monotonous update in my self-improvement journey. I want to record the best days and the worst, which there will be plenty of, in this blog. With that being said, welcome to my journey :)

Why am I doing this?

I can’t say I’ve been too happy with the way things have been in my life. I long for self-improvement more than anything right now. I’ve got bad consistency with everything. I am in the worst shape of my life; I have bad spending habits; I have almost no friends - lost a lot of them over the past 3 months; I feel upset and annoyed most of the time; I don’t have proper discipline when it comes to completing certain tasks. I wish I could just go ghost from most people I know and just put my head down and work work work. I want to prove to myself that I can work hard and show people around me that I am doing some great things in my life. That’s the entire reason I want to get started on this journey.

Symbolic representation/theme?

ONLY Ws

Only Ws is the theme of this entire project. W stands for Win. I want to show that everything I do is only taken positively and everything is “only wins” in my life - even the fact that I lose is a personal win if I learn from the loss. That is the concept of Only Ws. If I win, it’s an ”Only Ws” moment; If I lose, then I learn, then again it’s an “Only Ws” moment. This is a symbol to me and I will remember it throughout this project as the one thing that will lift me when I am down and guide me when I feel lost.

What to do?

Firstly, we start atomic. I need to change my habits and implement new ones in place. I should take care not to do everything all at once.

For Programming:

  • Get familiar with all the DSA required for interview prep

  • Practice many questions on Leetcode

  • Start learning Solidity after gaining confidence in DSA

  • Solve all university assignments by myself

For Grades:

  • Attending all classes of all my courses

  • Reading before class and preparing well in advance for tests and quizzes

For Fitness & Health:

  • MMA morning training at least 5 days a week

  • Eating healthy

For Design:

  • Making at least 2 whole, complete UI/UX designs every week

  • Reading more books related to design and HCI

Current Statistics:

The future me will evaluate if there’s improvement in my statistics.

Fitness: Weight: 72.50 Push-ups max: 22 Fat: 33%+ Plank: 30s                                                                   Training: weak

Design: Design portfolio: 2 designs

Programming: DSA: 3 questions solved so far

Grades:                                                                                                                           Sem just started, can’t comment yet

Mindset: low 

Network: 2

Friends: 2

I’m excited about this project, let’s see if I can pull it off and show significant improvement as I plan to.