Reprogram. Reinvent.

Test Prep

  • GRE
  • IELTS
  • Math

Tech

Self-Help

  • Time Management
  • Personal Finance
  • Skills improvement

Health

  • Meal Prep
  • Nutrition
  • Exercise

Reading

  1. Read for 5 to 10 min everyday. It’s better than not reading at all. Prepare a list of books you will want to read this year. You don’t have to stick to the list since you may want to read some other books.
  2. Search “Best Self Help Books.” You can find a list of top 100 most read books on Goodreads.com website.
  3. If you have time, read one fiction and one non-fiction everyday.
  4. Learn to annotate while you read. Check on youtube.com for tutorials to annotate books.
  5. Non-fiction: Read anytime, preferably self-help books in morning and before sleeping. 
  6. Fiction: Preferably not in morning or before sleeping.

Health

  1.  Meat/Fish/Eggs (Protein: at least 20g per meal)
  2.  Vegetables
  3. Citrus Fruits
  4. Sweet Fruits
  5. Lentils/Beans
  6. Olive oil for cooking
  7. Rice/Bread(opt for unprocessed carbs/foods in general)
  8. Drink water
  9. In addition, drink 2 glass of water (or as needed) with one lime to keep acidity level in balance. Check with your doctors.

Find different ways to handle stress

  1. Write down 10 min to 1 hour( or as needed) daily recovery ritual(rest, read books, meditate, basically give your body and mind a break before you start again daily).
  2. You started working out with a barbell. Say you did 20 reps for 1 set. Before you do your 2nd set you give a break.
  3. Right there you have a clear example of giving yourself a break after you do something for a certain time to recover.
  4. It could be you are reading for 10 min or 1 hour. Then you take a break.
  5. It could be you are cleaning your home for 1 hour and then take a break.
  6. It could be you are working on a project for 12 hours and then you take a break.
  7. You need be aware of when you need to take a break to recover just like you are not going to keep working out more than 10 reps in 1 set.
  8. You need to find out and measure your limits on your important activities.
  9. Maybe you are working out math problems, and you need to figure out after what point you are just distracted or daydreaming or tired. Take a break.
  10. This is why it is important to take break and include some other different projects or recovery routine while you get back to your project. And it is also fun to have variety of projects to work on.
  11. Also, give yourself 1 to 2 hour head room each day for any project you decide to work on. Because for me it gets boring following same routine everyday. I want to do something different and I don’t have time since I used it up on my daily tasks. Or There are something came up and I need to stop other tasks to work on this pressing or new idea/tasks. 
  12. This is why it is really great to have a daily tasks list for week/months/year. You know your free time. See, your time is so valuable now!?:-)

Benefits of daily tasks list

  1. Before you go to sleep, look at your tasks list for next day and prioritize most important tasks. You know what is coming up and you know what to do. You will not go creating imaginary negative scenarios of things.
  2. When you look at your tasks list in morning, you know what is coming up and you don’t let your mind wander as time keeps moving clockwise.
  3. If you skipped looking at your tasks list for few days or weeks, you know they are there for you to review and get back to it.
  4. There are some important reason you wrote down some tasks, so you have some things to accomplish. If you think those tasks aren’t important or not returning any value, time to update your tasks list!
  5. Think of and use tasks list like a compass to guide you when you are on track or off-road! 🙂

Create a Task List

  1.  Write down your one important goal.
  2.  What do you need to do to reach that goal?
  3. Write down all the tasks you need to complete to reach that goal.
  4. Break down all these tasks in to smaller tasks.
  5. Make these smaller tasks into 10 min tasks. Of course there are exceptions. Like prepping meals. You don’t cook for 10 min and be done with it.:-)
  6. Use your own judgement when completing more than one related tasks per day. 
  7. You want to do it everyday till whole project/goal is achieved. 
  8. Example – Walking, you don’t want to walk 7 hours in one day to skip rest of the week. You want to walk 1 hour everyday.
  9. Come back to related tasks at a later time of the day/week.
  10. Do the same steps for other goals. Adjust as needed.
  11. Learn your max and min limit.
  12. Learn to be aware of your max limit and how do you design a recovery routine.

Morning Routine

  1. Establish a morning wake up routine. See example below.
  2. It takes about 3 to 6 months to get consistent.
  3. So don’t get discouraged if you start to miss few days.
  4. Goal is to get back to it. Do as much as you can daily. If you wanted to walk 1 hour but you found yourself skipping, set your core walking goal to 5 min or even 1 min.
  5. After 1 to 2 months you will start to get consistent as you start to adjust.
  6. Also, avoid urge to do more reps/times. You may think these are so simple and you want to do more.
  7. Of course you can!  Goal is to do these everyday consistently. As you go thru weeks you will find yourself adjusting around the day to accommodate these tasks.
  8. There are things that can be done another day, but not your breakfast or even your daily 5 min morning walk/workout. You can not have your today’s breakfast tomorrow. You can not have your today’s lunch tomorrow. You get the point. You need separate your core daily routine from other tasks. You can delegate these other tasks to another time or day or even weeks. 

Health - Exercise

  1. Start working out at your home everyday.
  2. Start with full body light workout for 5 min daily. Really 5 min when you are starting out. If you are able to workout 5 min everyday for a month, you could then workout for more than 5 min to 10 min.
  3. Your goal is to block 5 min from your 24 hours to improve your health to start with.
  4. If you are going to gym, that’s great, but this is for someone one who haven’t gone to gym or never worked out or trying to get back to regular workout.
  5. There are days you may miss gym for valid reasons, but you can still do some core exercise routine at home daily for 5 min.
  6. Find a full body 5 min work out video on YouTube or anything you already know and do it as you watch it.
  7. Start somewhere. Just start now! Take a glass and start putting 1 spoon of water and see how long it will take to fill it up. Eventually you will fill up the glass. It doesn’t matter how slow you start, doing it daily is your goal.
  8. Why daily? And why at home? Why so little time? Why workout with such a lightweight? Your goal is to workout daily at home which will remove any excuses for skipping workout days.
  9. You can always find 5 min to 2 hour to take care of your health. Your health comes first.
  10. Track with some goals. You need to count the reps and sets and write it down. You can then review it at later time and adjust it as your want. You could measure the results from your input as you review it.
  11. I started with 10reps/2 sets per muscle groups and I checked every time completed it. Make a monthly spreadsheet or hand write it on a printed monthly worksheet on your wall.