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### Journal
### TOOL: Journal

Just one line a day

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### Yearly Themes
### TOOL: Yearly Themes

Set a **general direction** for yourself, not a goal.

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### Minimize Distractions
### HACK: Disconnect Comms

- Use Do Not Disturb on the phone & computer
- Clean your desk and the surroundings
- *Get rid of junk!*
- Check messages in short, predefined time slots
- Losing your flow is not worth it

Replace it with *intentional* and *meaningful* connections.
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### Hormone High
### HACK: Physical Cleanup

Fully natural and legal*!
- Clean your desk and the surroundings
- *Get rid of stuff* that is not essential and keep it that way
- shield your mind from wandering
- protect your flow

- Endorphins - exercising
- Dopamine - getting stuff done
- Oxytocin - connect with others
- Serotonin - gain acknowledgment and respect
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### HACK: Containerize

- Organize stuff into a hierarchy of containers:
- cabinet > shelf > box > zip-bag > rubber band
- ideally opaque first level, then transparent
- easy to access, quickly out of sight

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#### Drink with caution
### HACK: Digital Cleanup

- Cortisol - when things get tough
- Clean your digital desk
- use workspaces to focus on one task
- go full-screen, single app
- hide any non-essential UI

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### HACK: Hormone High

Fully natural and legal*!

- Endorphins - exercising
- Dopamine - getting stuff done
- Oxytocin - connect with others
- Serotonin - gain acknowledgment and respect

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Procrastination



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and track them daily.

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#### Why?
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- habits help keeping our elephant in line:<!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
- lower need for making decisions; it is already decided
- less forgetting
- more efficient use of time = more time for doing
- habits can evolve, we can keep improving<!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
- incremental changes take time, habits help us make the time<!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
- tracking habits increases the retention of habits<!-- .element: class="fragment" -->

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#### How?
| Habit | Workout | Alcohol | Coding |
| ------|---------|---------|------- |
| Target| > 10 min| < 0,5 l |> 30 min|
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#### One page per week <!-- .element: class="text-over-image" -->
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#### 100 weeks in a row <!-- .element: class="text-over-image" -->
#### 100 weeks in a row<br/>(1.92 years) <!-- .element: class="text-over-image" -->

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<!-- .slide: data-background="slides/motivation.jpg" data-background-size="contain" data-background-opacity="0.5" -->
## Motivation <!-- .element: class="text-over-image" -->
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- numbs our self-motivation <!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
- feels meaningless <!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
- activity feels meaningless <!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
- makes it easier to procrastinate <!-- .element: class="fragment" -->

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<!-- .slide: data-background-image="slides/goal_based_motivation.jpg" data-background-size="contain" data-background-opacity="0.3" -->
We want to achieve something in the future.

- Pros: it works! <!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
- Cons: it causes us damage; not sustainable <!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
- long struggle, followed by a short rush of joy that quickly evaporates <!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
- requires more and more demanding goals <!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
1. long displeasure from not reaching the goal<!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
2. short rush of joy that quickly evaporates <!-- .element: class="fragment" -->

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**Pros:** it works!

**Cons:** it causes us damage<br />it is not sustainable
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Joy fades, requiring more demanding goals. <!-- .element: class="fragment" -->

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> Humans quickly return to a relatively stable level of happiness despite major positive or negative events.

The reward for finishing a major goal is not worth a long struggle to get there.<!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
The reward for finishing a major goal<br />is not worth a long struggle to get there.<!-- .element: class="fragment" -->

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### Journey-based motivation
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Enjoy the ride, the destination is secondary.
Joy is found in doing an activity, not finishing it.

"Happiness now", not just at the end. <!-- .element: class="fragment" -->

Unlocks flow, <!-- .element: class="fragment" -->

- happiness now, not just at the end <!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
- unlocks flow <!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
- flow brings contentment and mastery <!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
- ...which in turn brings results <!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
flow brings contentment and mastery, <!-- .element: class="fragment" -->

that in turn brings results. <!-- .element: class="fragment" -->

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### Flow

State of deep immersion in an activity that...<!-- .element: class="fragment" -->

* is challenging<!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
* makes use of our strengths<!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
* matches our skills<!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
* is enjoyable.<!-- .element: class="fragment" -->

We tend to lose our sense of time.<!-- .element: class="fragment" -->

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- using them supports flow
- personal vision builds on them
Only a few will be used. The rest needs to be rejected and banished <!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
Only a few will be used. <!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
to gain focus, clarity and mastery <!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
to avoid decision paralysis or regrets. <!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
The rest needs to be rejected and banished: <!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
- to gain focus, clarity and mastery, <!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
- to avoid decision paralysis or regrets. <!-- .element: class="fragment" -->

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#### Strengths
- attention to detail, carefulness, looking for perfection
- enjoy exploring and learning new technologies
- like to solve problems and mysteries in tech
- life-long programming experience
- life-long programming experience, love building useful solutions
- attention to detail, carefulness, looking for perfection; love creating nice and clean software
- persevering problem solver; like to explore and solve mysteries in tech
- open-minded and attentive listener

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#### Weaknesses
- lacking in open confrontation, group arguments
- introverted, social interactions are taxing
- lacking in open confrontation, group arguments
- cautious in opinions, not an 'influencer'

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#### Threats
- changed role: boring / stressful / annoying
- changed job:
- low pay / annoying co-workers / toxic workplace / long commute
- low pay / annoying co-workers / toxic&nbsp;workplace / long commute
- having to use Windows

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#### My Observations
- my SWOT felt misaligned with the career of people management<!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
- Threats applied to the current situation as well<!-- .element: class="fragment" -->

Change was desirable and not even that risky.<!-- .element: class="fragment" -->

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#### Step 2:
### Personal Achievements
- things you are proud of or that brought you joy
- things that brought you joy / you are proud of
- provides specific evidence of your strengths
- helps to gain confidence and think positively

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- learned to type using the Workman layout
- ...

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#### My Observations
- Nice! I did some cool things!<!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
- Very little of it was connected to people&nbsp;management<!-- .element: class="fragment" -->

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#### Step 3:
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Goal: find groups of activities that support each other.<!-- .element: class="fragment" -->

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### My Activities
- writing readable code, testing, refactoring
- exploring new technologies and approaches
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- working with colleagues - reviews, discussions
- research of innovative solutions
- solving problems, making software more useful
...

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### My Activities Grouped
- collaborative software development (direct)
- exchange of experience (learning & teaching)
- research, experiments, investigation

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### Beta-Vision
Finding a personal vision takes effort and time.<!-- .element: class="fragment" -->

<br/>
Finding a beta version is easier<!-- .element: class="fragment" -->

and you won't procrastinate before finding it!<!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
and you won't procrastinate to start!<!-- .element: class="fragment" -->

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### My Beta-Vision

- coding useful software on a daily basis
- continually learning from others
- sharing my knowledge with others
- sharing code publicly
- coding useful software on a daily basis, publicly
- learning from others and sharing my knowledge

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### My Final Vision

I'm still iterating.<!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
WIP

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### Act Now!

> How can I incorporate my vision in my daily life?
*How can you incorporate your vision in the daily life?*

Starting small is fine, as long as you start!

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### My Start
### My First Steps

I started fixing defects in Android apps I use.
1. Daily coding refresher:<!-- .element: class="fragment" -->
- **Kotlin** Koans
- **Go** by Example
- Learn **Go** with Tests
- Personal **React** project
2. Fixing defects in the Android apps that I use (in Kotlin). <!-- .element: class="fragment" -->

It covers:
- coding useful software
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### My Findings

<div>

This covered:
- coding useful software publicly
- learning from others
- sharing code publicly

i.e. my personal vision.

</div>
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I regularly experienced flow, improved my skills and really enjoyed doing it.
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#### How to break out?

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### Time Perspectives
[Philip Zimbardo] <!-- .element: class="reference-author" -->

- positive past
- negative past
- present
- future

[Philip Zimbardo] <!-- .element: class="reference-author" -->

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Focusing on
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#### Focusing on

- ~~positive past~~
- **negative past**
- **present**
- ~~future~~

results in a hamster, depressions. <!-- .element: class="fragment " -->
#### results in a hamster, depressions. <!-- .element: class="fragment " -->

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Refocusing on
#### Refocusing on

- **positive past** <!-- .element: class="fragment highlight-blue" data-fragment-index="2" -->
- ~~negative past~~ <!-- .element: class="fragment semi-fade-out" data-fragment-index="2" -->
- ~~present~~
- **future** <!-- .element: class="fragment highlight-blue" data-fragment-index="1" -->

breaks out of the hamster. <!-- .element: class="fragment " -->
#### breaks out of the hamster. <!-- .element: class="fragment " -->

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Gain **positive results**

to keep you going.
and keep on going.

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