A Progress Update – Journey of Life

Hello fellow peeps of the Internets!

I continue to avoid writing the follow up brain article, but not because I don’t want to, but because I feel there is so much else to share. Anyway. I thought it was about time I wrote down a few words on my progress so far. While I’ve only been “officially” on this journey for a mere two weeks, I feel things have already changed. It’s funny really. While I have not yet found my guiding purpose, I’ve managed to boost other areas of my life somehow. Not quite sure where that came from. Regardless, the result is that I’ve introduced a few (in my opinion) significant changes to my life which I hope will only improve my situation.

1. Rising early
2. Exercise

The rising early part has so far exceeded my expectations. I decided to try it because people have been raving about early mornings for quite a while, I’m sure you’ve heard about them. I wasn’t sure whether this was because it was cool to be an early riser or whether it actually was good. I thought creativity at night was my way of life, but honestly, now I’d say it’s the opposite.

For two weeks I’ve been getting up around 5 am in the morning, immediately going for a 30-40 minute walk around our peninsula where we live. After coming back I do about 10 minutes of yoga to stretch and welcome the day. The combination of these two changes have significantly altered the course of my day. I no longer rise because I have work waiting, but because I’ve got fun things to do such as writing and learning.

These two, arguably, simple changes have had quite the impact on me, and this is in only two weeks. I’m more alert and have more mental clarity, even though my energy levels do dip every now and then. I believe this not to be related to the new routines, but rather me not having good enough discipline to actually eat before I get tired, but only when my stomach has turned in-side-out. That’s another thing on my “agenda” for change. To start preparing and planning my meals a bit better. Luckily I’ve got an attentive and caring girlfriend that really wants me to be the best and she has a keen sense of when I should eat. Good that someone does!

Future and the Time to Come

I’ve done quite a bit of reading these past two weeks, more than I ever have done before in such a short amount of time. One might think I’ve read about personal development and other self-help resources, but I’ve gone completely geeky here. I’m trying to understand the composition of our brain, cognitive abilities etcetera. I felt it would be the intelligent thing to do. I guess my intention with that is to try and establish some sort of framework which I can use to develop my own purposes and goals at the same time as I satisfy my logical and analytical self which needs “proof” for everything.

Currently I’m doing research on primary emotions, and how they relate to our cognitive systems. I’m actually planning on writing a longer article about what I call, “Primal Abilities – A Framework for Personal Development”. This will, I hope, become my foundation from where I launch into a deeper understanding of myself. In order to not waste time analysing things that I cannot change I need to learn what parts of me are genetically coded. Also understanding the function of the mind will make it easier to avoid trapping myself into self doubt thinking there is something that I can’t change.

I know much of this knowledge already exists out there on teh Interwebz, but the problem is not finding it, it’s correlating it and intelligently extracting meaning and what is relevant to what I’m trying to achieve. I admire the mission of Google, but now if only someone could create a service to make all this available information useful. How about a contextual based search engine? Feed it some text, and have it provide you with pages that have the same type of content. I.e. it can make deductions from a particular set of information and provide new information that is similar to what you provided in the first place. That would be neat.

Oh, I almost forgot. While on my way to work the other day I realised that I’m very much a philosopher, a scientific philosopher. I would love to read, write and just spend all my waken hours devouring knowledge and attempt to provide my take on it all. That would be fantastic. I should also admit that I do wish that writing this blog could hopefully someday provide me with some sort of platform to launch me into this “ideal” path of life. But one thing at a time. Tomorrow is a new day, waiting to happen and bring me new challenges and wisdom. Wonder what I will learn tomorrow. It’s exciting.

/ Christoffer