Friday, December 27, 2019

Tentative Plans

So, here is the plan for 2019.  Come January 1st, I will try to take a 30 day break from all social media.  After that...

Twitter: I won't delete my account yet.  I will answer DM's and notifications.  I will also research still on Twitter.  But I won't post info anymore on Twitter except a few links through DM's.  Again I plan to spend no more than a half hour on Twitter a week.

Gab: One part of me ditching Twitter was to free up time.  I worry I will just start posting a bunch to Gab and spend the same amount of time just swapping out Twitter for Gab.  I shouldn't do that.  So for now I'll post on Gab, but maybe only once or twice a week.  I want to train myself to go days at a time without checking an RSS feed.  This will make my content less valuable, as it will be dated sometimes, but that is OK.

Videos: I'd like to start making videos again.  Polished this time.  On Bitchute.  But I can't right now.  I need to get other things done first.  I will look at this again in a few months. I don't think I will do podcast again for a time.

So with social media this nets me maybe a half hour on Twitter and a few hours on Gab.  Instead of my current over 20 hours on social media.  What will I do with that time?

Off social media I will be doing the following: 

Spend time with Jesus:  I'd like to spend at least a half hour, sometimes more, sometimes less daily doing deeper study of the Bible and praying than I have been doing, if I've been doing it at all.  

Family: My wife and I will have two date nights a week.  One on a fixed day and one on a day that floats.  I will also mentor my son a lot more, which will require organization so I can do activities with him.  

Game Development: Already started my first game, already have a path laid out, I'd like to start off spending 10 hours a week doing this.  It doesn't seem like much, and it isn't, but about all I can spend.

Skill Development: I plan to spend at least a few hours a week on side projects that grow my skills that are applicable to future game development or work.  

Work: The idea is to bust arse during work hours, and to make those hours more consistent.  I think if I do this I can limit work to 40 hours a week.  I'm usually given plenty of time to do what I need to do.  With efficiency I should be able to work when I should be working, and lay it down when I'm not.  

Reading: I'd like to read a few hours a week.  Some fun stuff, some serious, alternating the two.  Reading The Fifth Wave series and enjoying it so far.

Walks and Light Work Outs:  I'm so out of shape I need to focus on getting in pre-shape before getting into shape again.  I will try to walk a 5 mile week and quickly move that up to 10 miles a week as time permits.  This will be in addition to walking my dogs which I hope to do 5 or 6 times a week.

Organizing: Sometime this year I think we will be moving.  I need to start parsing out what gets tossed and what will go.  I also need to organize what stays much better than we have now.  I will also do a lot more cleaning than is getting done now.

So, busy.  Twitter and social media had to get cut 90% to allow more time for the above.

Pray / Wish me luck getting all this done.

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