Category: Habits

• January 5, 2022

  Todoist Karma Enlightenment

  Almost three years ago, I moved to Todoist to man­age my todos and projects. Today I am thrilled to receive the fol­low­ing email from Todoist. I only vague­ly know about the Todoist Kar­ma fea­ture. I haven’t tak­en time to explore the Kar­ma fea­ture as it is relat­ed to stats and is tan­gen­tial to how I use Todoist, but I am… Read more

• October 17, 2018

  Atomic Habits

  My favorite habits author James Clear’s book Atom­ic Habits is releas­ing today. I ben­e­fit­ed from his work over the last many years. The con­cept of Iden­ti­ty-Based Habits which I first learned from his blog has helped me in many ways espe­cial­ly with build­ing and keep­ing my exer­cis­ing habit. I like his style of writ­ing and explain­ing ideas. So… Read more

• April 8, 2018

  Flossing

  I start­ed a tiny habit: floss­ing my teeth. I have been try­ing to start floss­ing for many months now. I brush my teeth every night but I know brush­ing twice a day is not enough to keep a real­ly good den­tal hygiene. I knew I need­ed to start floss­ing at some point because it is good to floss. While I was learn­ing about tiny habits… Read more

• October 18, 2017

  First 5k of 2017

  I final­ly ran the first 5k of this sea­son! I intend to run a 5k every week­end for rest of the spring and sum­mer. I ran about twen­ty-five 5ks in 2015. But I did not run much in 2016. This year I try to do bet­ter again. My run­ning goal is mod­est: I just try to run a 5k each week­end. I start… Read more

• October 13, 2017

  James Clear’s “1% Better Every Day” video

  I learned a LOT about habits by read­ing James Clear’s blog. He has heaps of great posts on his site, but if I were to pick one, it is this: Iden­ti­ty-Based Habits: How to Actu­al­ly Stick to Your Goals This Year. The gist is that: Build­ing good habits and chang­ing our­selves for bet­ter is all about our iden­ti­ty… Read more

• May 24, 2017

  The important thing we forget in the rush to achieve

  I should remem­ber the fol­low­ing gems in the arti­cle I found in the fol­low­ing tweet. But if I could offer one piece of advice to incom­ing fresh­man, it would be to learn to take care of them­selves — because they are about to be sur­round­ed by peo­ple who often have the mis­con­cep­tion that rack­ing up achieve­ments and acco­lades is… Read more

• May 19, 2017

  1000 days of Elevate

  Today is my 1000 th day play­ing Ele­vate. I broke the streak once in June 2016, not because I slacked but because I was stuck on the dat­ed iPhone 4 run­ning on dat­ed iOS 7 on which the Ele­vate app was slow and crashed repeat­ed­ly. I was also trav­el­ing and did­n’t have reli­able inter­net. I could­n’t let all this break my… Read more

• November 1, 2016

  800 days of Elevate

  Hit the 800 day streak on Ele­vate today. Between mov­ing the phones and trav­el­ing, I lost the streak in June. So I used the cheat to restore the streak and nev­er missed a day ever since. Here’s to 1000 days. Read more

• April 21, 2016

  600 days of Elevate

  Today I played Ele­vate for 600th day in a row. This is the only live and longest streak I cur­rent­ly have. Read more

• March 7, 2016

  Round The Bays 2016

  Yes­ter­day I ran at a run­ning event called Round the Bays. Accord­ing to their web­site, it is one of the world’s largest fun runs and New Zealand’s largest mass par­tic­i­pa­tion sport­ing event. It is a 8.4km walk / jog / run from the city along the water­front to St Heliers Bay, one of the rich sub­urbs. My employ­er paid… Read more