Jason Leow

If I can biohack my way to better weight, diet and sleep, I can do it for stress too right?

That said, I do have some habits that help with stress:

• Meditation
• Mindfulness
• Exercise
• Writing
• Sleep

So how should I proceed if I do choose this mission? I can imagine more research in these areas:

• Music
• Stoicism
• Exercise
• Laughter
• Supplements
• Taking walks
• Get biofeedback
• Natural remedies
• Removing stressors
• Journaling exercises
• Swimming in the sea
• Tiny deep breathing exercises
• Progressive muscle relaxation
• Better time/work management
• Examining my values/narratives
• Social support with family/friends

Exploration mode to come!

I’d been working on my Fit AF habit of showing up for a 15min short run round the block every Monday morning at 7am, and so far so good.

But the part of me is getting impatient.

I feel like I’m not getting enough reps in for the habit.

Think about it: a weekly habit just gets 52 reps in 1 year. Just FIFTY TWO?! But a daily one gets 356 reps – that’s 7 times more.

Will I truly ingrain this Fit AF habit by just 52 reps in 1 year?

Will it ever get from “I got to do this” to “I enjoy doing this”, from just doing it weekly?

Will it truly move the needle and have a positive impact on my health?

I just received a $4.08 payout from Medium!

Look at the month-on-month payout trajectory so far:

Sep - $0.18
Oct - $1.60 ⬆888%
Nov - $2.30 ⬆144%
Dec - $4.08 ⬆177%

Looks like I can break even on the Medium subscription ($5 per month) soon!

OK so this is getting more serious now. What started off as a laughably small amount of payout money ($0.18) in September had now grown 2266% after 4 months!

- one to eliminate bounce animation in my accordion plugin
- another to solve the problem of char limit of 16k in Embed elements (for listings plugin)

All my fears, concerns, aspirations and wishes in the form of open questions for the year ahead:

• Will I live up to the year with alacrity?
• How long will I take to hit $200 MRR?
• Will I ever hit $5k revenue in my life?
• Will I ever make enough money off my products to support my lifestyle and family?
• What other products can I make?
• What other products do I want to make?
• What’s my next big thing?
• What’s my next product for tech for good?
• Do I still have what it takes to create something profitable and popular?
• When will I embody a wealth mindset?
• Do I have what it takes to get rich?
• Will I be able to grow my savings back to what it was?
• When will I finally get over myself about investing?
• Will I ever nail my sleep to 90% consistently?
• Can I ever get back to a fitness level of my 20s or 30s?
• How do I bring familyhood to the next level?
• When will things go back to normal?
• When can we travel again?
• What’s my spiritual path like ahead?
• Will I ever go on retreats again?
• When will I finally feel like I’m thriving, not surviving?

It’ll be great to review these questions from time to time, and especially at the end of the year! Looking forward.

Onwards.

- went with my inspiration and randomly launched a new year promo - 50% discount for 5 months
- going thematic - specialist vs generalist conversation seems to interest people, so my 3rd day in a row tweeting the same theme for my 4pm indie hacking tweet

Some musings about how surprising it is that so much of sleep is social, and how learning to negotiate the social contract of sleep will be a gamechanger.

• RT yesterday's
• RT a past tweet
• Scheduled og tweets
• No replies to other tweets except my own

Still on my minimum viable tweeting vacay mode...

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The goal for Jan is to self care, let my 2022 intentions percolate and follow my energy. That's it.

2022 is off to a slow start, and it’s good.

Hit 2k followers on 24 Dec 2021, and just 1 week later I got 104 more followers...wow this never happens!

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/govsg_doyouknow-techforgood-sgperspectives-activity-6880018104311775232-hVce

https://www.facebook.com/100064718678925/posts/288317296668891/?d=n

That time when I talked about how I built safedistancing.sg, on Channel 8 TV programme Hello Singapore 狮城有约

Watch me fumble in Mandarin talking about tech for good and nocode! 😆

Watch 2:17 onwards:

🔗https://www.8world.com/stories/hello-singapore/click-it-code-free-web-development-1682736

My aspiration for 2022, in one word:

Alacrity.

/əˈlæk·rɪ·t̬i/ brisk and cheerful readiness
“I accepted the invitation to 2022 with alacrity.”

For 2022, I want to see if I can…

💵 Financial: Hit $200 MRR from all my products by 31 Dec 2022, through small doggedness.
⚒️ Material: Meaningful materialism for health.
🌲 Living: Move more, feel fit.
💡 Intellectual: Follow my entrepreneur nose.
💪 Experiential: Learn about web3 and AI.
👥 Social: Serial 1-on-1 Twitter conversations.
🎨 Cultural: Pivoting identity to wealth subculture.
⛩️ Spiritual: Mindful familyhood.

Onwards!

My intentions for 2021 and the results:

💵 Financial: Hit $5k MRR from all my products by 31 Dec 2021, through consistency rather than intensity.
- only hit $100 MRR

⚒️ Material: Give more, give away more.
- safedistancing.sg was a huge success

🌲 Living: Sleep better, move more.
- Sleep biohacking saved my health, sanity and productivity. Exercise was dismal.

💡 Intellectual: Follow my dev nose.
- Goal changed to marketing even though the learning intention remained.

💪 Experiential: Look for 1% improvement every week. Just 1%, 1 thing, 1 task, 1 idea.
- #100daysofmarketing. I enjoyed the quiet doggedness of the whole challenge.

👥 Social: Quality conversations and relationships, local and global.
- I joined Twitter for the marketing, but stayed for the community.

🎨 Cultural: Changing lanes (and identity) to geek/dev subculture.
- I ended up building (sub)cultural capital in the creator/copywriter/marketing/indie hacker circles.

⛩️ Spiritual: Fatherhood that’s mindful and present.
- I stuck on with working from home, so I can continue to be around to see my son grow up.

That’s 2021 for me through these eight lenses.

How was your 2021?

- thematic 31 Dec/1 Jan content

Tweeted out a massive thread for my Best & Worst of 2021 list

Learnings:
- no such thing as max_faves search parameter
- I didn't engage much this month due to hols but my traffic is looking better! Why?! 🤔😩