# Day 0: The Planning Phase By [emperorrp](https://paragraph.com/@emperorrp) · 2022-09-07 --- 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](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/be4d036af50cb963e1d497ec636669597bbe25f9998fefb680e5815a1757942c.png) 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. --- *Originally published on [emperorrp](https://paragraph.com/@emperorrp/day-0-the-planning-phase)*