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This week I have decided look into developing systems. I have seen a lot of productivity hustle-grind bros talk about developing systems to build habits and they aren't 100% wrong. For the most of the year I have just been kinda freestylin' without any real structure. Which is fine, but my goals and ambitions have grown quite a lot these last seven months so I think going forward I'm going to build a non-hustlegrind system that helps activate myself and actualize (that sounds so goddamn corny) towards the stuff I want to do. It's going to take time, probably several different iterations but I think I need to develop a system/schedule to get myself where I want to go.
The O.R.C. System would be
Observe - Observe what I'm doing, good or bad, productive or leisure
Record - Write it down in my journal and planner
Change - Change what I'm doing so I can obverse and record different things in the future
The first was "buy" a planner, mostly because I needed something with a calendar. Something I can physically write in and see time progress. I already journal but I don't really do it regularly so using a planner to just plan my days at the start and chronicling them in my journal at the end of the day is my first step in my building my system.
I'll build and expand into the future, but I think keeping it as low-tech as possible and use the systems that have worked in the past is probably the best move. Computers and digital stuff is nice, but dudes throughout all of history have used pen and pad to improve themselves so I'll try to do the same.
I don't really proclaim my big bad goals anymore, I think it's best for me just work today them and report on milestones or worthwhile updates. So I'm just going to keep my head down and focus on the process, and learn to love it (again sounds like corny dudebro hustlegrind nonesense but it's true)