First off the good things. I learned how to solve a rubik's cube (sub 5mins so far), and I'm getting back into anime with the new season of log horizon and Kuroko no Basket. I've been having trouble with digital minimalism. Staying off social media is easy but I don't think I was ready for the social isolation that comes from it. I have all the things against me, I was homeschooled growing up, moved to a rural area when I was about twelve, and drove an hour to university so I never really got t...

Something that I forgot to mention from my last post was this little insight. My porn addiction was being propped up by my phone usage. All my triggers that usually came from social media discover algorithms are gone and harder to access and I also don't feel the need to continue the dopamine high that I would get from continued phone usage. I hope for the sake of others like me that there will be a mass exodus from social media in favor of things that are real, pure, and dictated by our actions...

After reading digital minimalism by Cal Newport I have severely cut my screen time down over the past two weeks. During lockdown and six months after my first relationship my screentime on my phone hit an all-time high with one day reaching twelve hours and averaging ten hours that week. I mainly bounced around tinder, snapchat, instagram, youtube, anime, and various porn sites. The way this week is going for screentime is pretty absurd by contrast, I'm averaging about two to three hours a day. ...

Japanese floor futon For some reason when I was growing up I would sometimes prefer the floor instead of a bed. My parents went along with it and got me a 1.5in thick piece of foam and I would rotate between my bed and the piece of foam. As time went on that piece of foam went to my best friend's house and when I slept over I would always use it. I spent nights less and less when I moved far away from my best friend's house so I didn't sleep on the floor for a while. Fast forward to 2015 and I ...

Piano For a long time piano was just a chore that I did to make my parents happy but I would say since march of 2020 I have been just been playing for fun. Sometimes just breaking down songs I hear into cords and melodies, improvisation, and reading sheet music. ...

Quality Time When it comes down to it I like people. It's nice to at least share a space with someone that I care about. If they like that I'm there then that makes my heart sing, if its neutral then thats okay too. ...

Looks like my little stunt living in the year 9999 made a difference on the platform. Hi Mo, I hope you’re doing well. Are your businesses and projects are happy and healthy? ...

Weighted blankets As someone who feels like they don't get enough hugs weighted blankets come in handy for that daily feeling. ...

Koss portapros headphones These headphones may not have the soundstage of headphones with the drivers further away from the ears but I really do like them. the bass is punchy and everything else seems pretty detailed. I personally wear them with the headband barely touching my head with the main staying power coming from the clamping force of the comfort zone pad, I also set the zone to light to get just a little more soundstage. ...

Just a couple of things to get off my chest.For starters, I have a bunch of personal goals I want to accomplish and fulfill. A portion of these habits will replace bad ones, hopefully resulting in a more focused, happy, healthy, and prosperous life from now on.Habits:return to working out four times a weekwriting hopefully seven days a weekshooting more creative photography learn a new language with duolingoThings to decrease/limitstimulation from artificial sources (my phone screen time usually...

Gerber Shard a very nice minimal tool for unexpected things. There might be better tools now but this one is mine and until I lose it I'll probably keep using it. ...

NarwhalCo Pens I don't know when but at some point in the past when I was really into researching EDC I saw that a lot of people carried pens. I read many stories about how having a pen in a pinch can really be helpful. I got these narwhalco pens because they fit perfectly in my wallet and because if your register they will send you free ink refills, I haven't had to request any yet but it's been great having a pen with me at all times I cant tell you how many times I just break it out and peop...

Pilot g2 pens As a graphic designer a lot of my work starts with pen and paper. Any pen will work but if I have a choice it would probably be pilot g2 pens (Walmart r2 pens also work). ...

Computers They are where I do basically all my work, but I love how they work. I work with mac and windows have built a couple of custom builds. ...

Photography I always love the technical side of photography, all the rules, specs of cameras, and post production. I like dabbling in all types of photography but I feel most suited to journalistic or documentation. when working with people I have a lot of trouble with posing and getting them to look good, my candid work where people don't even know I'm there or don't care seems to be some of my best work that comes easiest to me. ...

Safety Razor. I could drop the mic right there but honestly it has probably been the best thing I have ever invested in. Since investing about 50$ back in 2017 I have enjoyed 2.5cent shaves ever since. a pack of 100 blades will cost you about 10 dollars but you can do two really good shaves per side, even if you go with one shave per side it's 5 cents a shave. I still haven't had to reorder blades and I have given many away. I have given safety razors away as gifts and also converted my best fr...

Water.Oh golly just like bowling I could talk all day about water but here are the cliffnotes. growing up my mom limited me from having soda/pop/coke which in retrospect was fantastic but it wasn't until about 12 years ago that we got serious about drinks we put in our body and bought an enagic sd501 that produces kangen water. Since then I have been on kangen water and every workout i've ever done i have never felt sore afterwards, I have barely gotten sick, everyone always wonders why I have s...

Bowling. I’ve been bowling since I think I was 11 years old first starting out with a Friday night league with my grandma and my parents. During university there wasn’t a bowling alley near me so I took a four year break. I’m back now and I’m aiming for a regional pba tournament win but that’s going to take a lot of work. I enjoy the sport because it’s a solo competition that is sometimes has team tournaments. It’s air conditioned no matter where you go in the world, it’s a lifetime sport that...

Clapping. People say I have a loud clap and I would agree with them. This makes me happy because when I can appreciate something with clapping, even if its a small crowd I can make the person who I'm praising a boost of happiness with my sound. Side note when I was thinking about this series a week or two ago clapping was the first thing that came to mind that I thought was super small but to me is something I like maybe more than others. ...

If anyone knows me now or stumbles into me on the street and you find this blog at least you'll know what I like. Over the next 100 days I plan to look inside myself and find something I like. Maybe I'll just write down what it is without any explanation or I might write a whole book. If any targeted ads come this I honestly won't be mad. ...

Everything seems to be working for the better now. I have a new job that is challenging but I like it, I have a new car that works, I am in the best shape i've ever been in, and my mental health is back in a good place. My new job has me doing a lot of video and photo work (and all the editing that goes with it). My favorite projects is when I get to do some photoshop work and I have already fallen back in love with it. With reading my total listening time on audible is about to reach 2 months...

the crazy thing about this platform is that it keeps pulling me back. I've changed the name to something I think is a bit more interesting but also more honest about what content people expect to find here. reading my last post I realize that what I was about to put here today would of been the same thing except worded differently. I have grown since my first relationship ended but I imagine that healing and acceptance will only come with the passage of time. I've been contemplating writing a s...

I’m sorry I don’t always talk about my feelings, I want to make it up to some of you by at least putting them here. And then I’ll put every one of these disappearing notes in a permanent location so I can log my progress and feelings Sleeping on this couch is something that will help. Entrusting friends with some of my struggles is the first step to growth. What other steps can I take? As I said to one of my friends tonight is that I work best when I have a small area of focus. I like working a...

it has been so crazy that I forgot to start writing the rest of this artical. I'm a little overwhelmed and that is leading to slow productivity which adds to the stress and compounds the problem. I don't really know whats going on. what I do know is that I've read these books since we last left. The Vexed Generation (Magic 2.0) Steelheart (The Reckoners) Firefight (The Reckoners) Calamity (The Reckoners) Mitosis (The Reckoners) Meet the Frugalwoods Sleep Smarter by Shawn Stevenson Currently re...

So I haven’t been here for a while, here is what I’ve done since my absence. I was in Italy when I was writing the majority of my #100days challenge but I was keeping it secret for safety reason. I stayed there for a month for some summer classes (two B’s). I went to Colorado with my girlfriend and her family for a week which was awesome I recently fell in love with a book series called Everyone loves large chests which I listened to on audible but recently found out that it’s a web series tha...

Currently drunk/tipsy The room is currently spinning Perfect time to write right? Ohhhhhhhhhhg the spinning I could of gone to the club but I got drunk at the pregame bar My ...

Eating in with friends, need to make more time for writing. Summer classes at 8am are so boring. ...

Summer courses begin tomorrow, I’m having fun meeting with my classmates today. Weird question but if you could buy one leather good which one would you buy? For me I think a bag of some sort would probably be the best in my opinion. Any clothing I would be scared to out grow in some way. ...

I honestly can’t really remember the last 24 hours that well. Everything is so hectic and I have gotten very little sleep. ...

I don’t know if anyone else has this, but I sometimes just don’t eat. It’s the weirdest feeling but I sometimes just don’t feel hunger and I don’t really feel the effects until the following day. That’s basically what I did yesterday, just worked on my room and realized I didn’t eat until 12 at night. I had some time today to talk about, well, today. I’m reading books, watching movies, and trying to forge habits that will be useful to me in the future while I’m still in a forgiving environment. ...

I need to make more time to write. 11 hours of Youtube followed by 5 hours of awesome productivity. I loved that feeling of productivity. I almost stepped on a scorpion today. Also contacted my cloud storage provider about account issues, kinda annoyed that things aren’t working right even though I did nothing to break them. If this keeps up I want to build my own cloud server for my files using Nextcloud. P.S. @mo of you’re reading this I would love to be able to push notes directly from the a...

New Adobe updates yas. I want to bike tomorrow ninja warrior training really kicked my butt today. ...

Played Skyrim all day. No regrets... ...

So a lot has been going on the past couple of days, but I've been keeping my notes super short because I always get home super late and I have little to no time to write them before I go to bed. Today I'm writing at about 10:30 at night.Events of the last couple of days: doing research on how to blend into another country, doing research on locksport and penetration testing, and shooting pictures of a dog.Something that's been on my mind is a book that I read a long time about called "The First ...

Today was so unproductive and I’m so tired. I just am going to write for like an hour tomorrow. ...

Short note tonight I just want to go to bed. Need to fix my sleep schedule. Ordered some picks for locksport and some biking equipment. ...

Shot and edited my first video today on my new YouTube channel, it took me so many takes and like 3 hours to edit.Saw detective Pikachu today and it was quite good, even though I predicted the end just by the trailer.Found a cool video for you to watch.Things I need to work on.learning to pick out ingredients in food or blindfoldedget comfortable in front of the cameraedit more and get faster.I'm really loving this community with the fact that we like sharing ideas, but we don't mind if no one r...

So today I wanted to talk about how I'm going to enable comments on Listed and how my workflow works currently.I'm going to start using Dissenter by Gab as my comment section for these logs. Basically once I post I can pull the direct link to the comment section (I will explain in detail below).So for my workflow, this is how it works.Write everything out disregarding typos and grammar errors, no images or linksPaste everything into Grammarly (already canceled the service but I'll use it until t...

Hello everyone and welcome to day one out of 100 for Listed #100days writing challenge. I personally think this challenge is a great way to push yourself in a creative direction and improve your work ethic by finishing what you start even if it's hard. I am so happy to be on this platform with so many talented writers, creatives and professionals from different backgrounds and specialties. I'm excited to learn from all of you as I get better at expressing myself and my ideas.I would have been on...

Another day another few hours asleep yay. In preparing for my university finals, I got about an hour of sleep. It paid off, and I got some pretty good grades on my projects. I have one more project for tonight, but I think I'll get some sleep tonight. ...

hey, I'm kinda busy tonight, so I'm going to keep this log relatively short. Long story short I have two deadlines to meet by tomorrow, and I've been polishing the items to turn in all day. While I was doing some of my work I started watching Game of Thrones, and I have to say that I have yet to really warm up to it, but I'm only 2-3 eps in. I have been listening to reddit posts read by Rslash, and I'm pretty addicted. Other than moving some furniture for a friend and working in and around my ho...

First off... May the 4th be with you... Anyway, I did some ninja competition this morning, and my hands survived but not without basically destroying every one of my calluses. I have to work to get my calluses back while also getting much stronger. I watched a little kids basketball game today where the rules prevented them from stealing the ball from each other. Having played basketball for the majority of my life, it was exciting to watch. If I ever get bored someday I know, I could be the bes...

2nd day of finals at uni. Left for home at a reasonable time and took a nice 3-hour nap.I'm going to be in a local ninja warrior timed competition tomorrow, I hope my hands can survive because my calluses on my right hand are coming off. I need to build my hand hydration, so that way my hands stay flexible and repair themselves fast.After writing 5 of these logs, I'm already seeing my general motivation for my work going up. If anyone is reading this please @ me on twitter or write in the guestb...

Hey y'all how was your day today? Mine started at 6am in the morning and is ending where it always does now, at my computer writing about the day in between.Today was the first day of finals at my university, sadly I had to commute an hour there and back just for one final.I wanted to talk about creativity and repetition in day to day life. This note is my fourth of many notes to come, but I am already seeing some of the difficulty with making a daily journal entry. As my life progresses things ...

Just got my confirmation email that my custom domain for Listed is now live. You can now find these notes under the URL journal.glssjg.com. I'm so relieved that everything is pretty much set up for this platform.So today I wanted to talk about some rules that I'm going to be laying out for myself for these public journal notes.RulesAny long travel trips will be not be posted until the trip is over. Most likely a summary of the trip will be here and on my YouTube channelnames usage will be limite...

Hey y'all I hope everyone is having a great day. I'm currently writing this at twelve midnight just to ensure that I nail this habit of taking the time to put my day down.So last I pretty much pulled an all-nighter trying to finish my design project. I got about an hour of sleep, but I seem to be managing so far.I'm considering the direction I'm going to take this particular online platform. I don't know whether to write down things throughout the day or just writing everything down at once. I a...

Day 1Hello, my name is Christian. I want to run a brand named GLSSJG. But, where do I start?I think this is a great place to start. Creating, Building, Doing something. This is probably going to be something that I hope has a smaller community as opposed to the big entertainment company I want to build. These notes will be linked to in my first video, and then I plan just to let word of mouth carry it to whoever wants to hear.I've been watching Youtube for a long time, and finally, I want to mak...