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Thoughts about changing, life, and whatever comes to mind.

Tag: monthly-checkup

  • december & 2015 year in review

    I started this blog on December 28th last year, motivate solely by the Seth Godin book “What to do when it’s your turn”.

    It was a way for me to force myself to write constantly every day in a language that wasn’t my own.

    Now, one year after, I know that I missed many days out of the 365 available.
    The total post count for this blog right now is around 260, so all in all I missed about 100 days. 24 of which they were the days I was in japan.

    That said, it all worked very well.
    The more time it passed, the more it was easy for me to write every single day, even though sometimes I couldn’t get some “complex” thoughts written.

    What surely fascinated me was the habit itself.
    I was quite sure that to build an habit you needed something like one month of continuity but this wasn’t the case. In fact it took much more time to become accustomed to the fact that I needed to write every day.

    So, how did it go? Let’s see

    December was a fast month. It just flew by.
    Many of the thoughts in it are small, concise, fast.
    I started a new diet (which I’m inconsistent in doing, but I hope to fix it in the upcoming days) and I renewed my intention to meditate more every day.

    It was also a hard month, full of stress and joyful events.
    The posts that I loved the most about it were

    But what about 2015?

    Many thins happened, and while I can’t do a deep list of the posts I wrote, there were many things that changed me in a lot of aspects

    • I started working part time (28hrs/week)
    • I opened up a company, Radici Toscane
    • I went to a wedding in Oklahoma, met beautiful people in San Francisco
    • I went to Japan
    • I started writing every single day in english
    • I started exercising constantly with calistetics.
    • Tried various breakfasts
    • Did a 30 day -no sugar- experiment
    • Started writing articles in my blog Give Me The Chills and a couple were also quite popular.
    • Learned new technologies (rethinkdb above everything else)
    • I started wanting to contribute to opensource ,but failed (at least for now)
    • With my GF we opened up a shared bank account and started searching for a house

    2015 was such a wonderful year.
    Full of difficult moments but still also filled with emotions.

    I started learning to be more honest, to put work in front of me.
    There is still more to be done, and I guess that’s the path for 2016, move forward again.

  • october 2015 recap

    October was a strange month. I was quite busy during that time, but found the time to be consistent about writing here, although I skipped a few days.

    Lots of the Writing is related to the company I’m somewhat trying to build, the Radici Toscane although I don’t state it in a single post.

    I must admit that during this month I was always quite in a hurry, this resulted into articles being somewhat shorter than usual, although some were nice to write.

    A few that I liked were

    Also, this month I did a test on reducing sugar intake and do some breathing exercise in the morning.
    Regarding sugar it’s awesome, I mean… you can’t even imagine the benefit.
    After just a month of removing sugar my taste changed and now I don’t feel the need to eat sugar so much.

    In november this blog will somewhat become more of a journey trip since I’ll be heading off to japan for almost the entire month.

  • september 2015 recap

    These days I was so focused and busy that I almost forgot to do my usual monthly recap of the posts in this blog.

    While october is starting pretty bad (already lost a couple of days of writing) and even though september wasn’t a perfect month there are still a few things that made it worthwhile.

    The first thing about september is that I listened a podcast of Tim ferris with Brene Brown, this reminded me of the beautiful things I learned about vulnerability.

    I talked about sleep because I left it behind during september, I slept less because I’ve got many things to complete.
    Now that the month is over I cannot emphasize enough how important sleep is.

    one of the longest post -ever- was about focus and productivity.

    Also, checking back what I wrote I feel a bit of serendipity seeing that here I talk about “letting others show off” and here (october) I quote that leaders should deflect success.

    It’s amazing when you coincidentally link things without intention.

  • august 2015 recap

    So, how did my august went?

    First of all, it was my first and only month where I constantly updated this blog. Small task, I know, but it worked out.

    Bad news is that I skipped yesterday. Totally forgot about it.
    This makes me think that it’s best if I do it first thing in the morning instead that during the day, otherwise I always find myself trying to find the time.

    One of longest the posts I wrote talks about change and how can we really to to change

    another is about feelings that should not be hidden.

    Checking back the post is also a great way to realize what’s been on my mind during this month.
    For example I discussed a couple of times about the news (both the bad news and the tv news).

    Or I talk about the value of your time (concluding it’s you can “just do it“) and then read a wonderful post from Jason Fried about time vs attention which kinda changed my whole perspective.

    All in all, a beautiful month.

  • my first month review (jul-2015)

    I always thought that reviewing what we do is a great way to improve and learn.
    This month I took control again of my write schedule.
    While this blog was constantly updated, I wasn’t following my rules and I slacked a lot.

    It took me a while and a post from Matt Mullenweg to realize I wasn’t respecting my will.
    Thanks to that I established again a stable post schedule which I’m kinda proud of.

    I also got the courage to share some of this blog writing, and while I don’t consider myself anything more than a normal person writing about whatever I got in mind, I realized some of the writing that I did here was at least worth it.
    Maybe not genius, but I loved it, and sharing it proved I was kinda right.

    One of the post I really enjoyed writing was you don’t need to say that you’re great . I kept thinking about how what we say changes us, in many ways but the more I grow old and learn, the less I’m inclined to use this method since I value authenticity and empathy.
    This means that instead of trying to fake good emotions I try to live them to light their fire.
    It’s very similar, but in the mind is a totally different approach, and the results are clear.

    I also got the chance to finish some great posts on my “Official” blog, like the migration tutorial from Heroku to Openshift .