The return to something insignificant

Mid-month check-in

It's not even the middle of month yet but I didn't know how else to title this lol. I was thinking about how the first quarter year is about to end after this month, so I need to have some solid results and accomplishments by then. I drafted a strong, doable set of goals that I must finish (and as I'm writing this, I already accomplished one of them! I swear I'm so behind on blogging as I write these drafts and after a few days it's already outdated..)

But whatever, here it is!

My Goals for March

No more Twitter

I've ultimately decided to stop using Twitter for the whole month while I try to focus on the more important things in my life. Thanks to Neocities, Bearblog, and RSS, I've managed to replace my constant hours long doom scrolling on Twitter to a minute or two visit each time I get bored. I still see the same bullshit dumb takes, but I'm less prone to acquiring the typical migraines and brain damage it comes with.
Now I think it's time to completely cut it off while I try to figure out my life on the internet. I'll need another alternative for when I get bored (since my RSS feed isn't enough content to fill me through the day).

UPDATE AS OF 03/10: I started this yesterday! I didn't go on Twitter at all and barely opened Instagram, but it was hard to keep myself busy so I either looked for more blogs or played Animal Crossing. It was a great feeling though.

Publish website

Back in February I was able to finish 3 skeleton websites, but with the new me comes new ideas on who I want to be and how I want to present myself on the web. I have a "brand image" I want to pursue, but I don't have the art or works for it yet so I've been neglecting my site. It doesn't have to be perfect or even complete to publish a website. I think it's time I stop overthinking things and just hit publish. I can always just put filler content, or just say straight up "under construction" on a blank page. It doesn't have to look professional, or even mobile friendly (despite trying so to make it work). It's okay to not be seen as a good developer by anyone, may it be friends or recruiters. I need to stop postponing projects I love just because I'm afraid of imperfections and others' judgments towards it.

UPDATE AS OF 03/10: I actually started this today!! I didn't even plan on doing it today. I just sat on my chair as I was thinking about when to do, and then I was like 'fuck it' and published. It's now up and running on Neocities despite being bare bones and lacking actual content!! :) (and also very mobile-hostile cuz holy shit I tried to make it responsive and it backfired on me and now it's not even showing the main frame lol)

It's vlog time

I'll be having a personal week off on my birthday week (despite being unemployed haha). I won't be doing any work in front of the computer at all, but I still, however, will continue through other means, like vlogging. I've been meaning to vlog my life and start my experimental video projects, but I've postponing them as I don't feel as comfortable with the medium. But this week I'll be going out and about, inhaling the sun particles, and experiencing earth (the outside) for the first time in a while, so I'll make use of this moment to capture memories and create video art. (Maybe the trick is to imagine I'm doing something deeply creative? LOL)

UPDATE AS OF 03/10: I finally made a new channel, slapped a banner and a cool pic I have lying around. No content yet, but this is the first step and I'm very excited about it. I have so many videos anyway that I could literally just look through my folders and maybe use them. We'll see, I still have a week before the commence date anyway, so I'm already way ahead!

Pick a Project and finish it

For the rest of the days in March, I want to finish a project. I have a lot lined up that I've been keeping a secret (as I want to publicly introduce it to the world when it actually exists). It doesn't matter which one it is, all that matters is that its gonna be done. Now the problem is definitely gonna be which one to pick and focus on (since if I could easily decide like that then I would've just finished everything at this point). I should definitely pick something simple that I can complete within a few weeks instead of the other titles that I still need to learn a new app for (but they're so exciting ughhh ;;; ).

Think about your goddamn business

It's a surprise that this is on a different category from the project. I have the audacity to work on something else while I struggle to actually start on my main, main goal for this whole year. I originally planned to start working on my business for the second quarter year (Apr-Jun), so I guess it doesn't hurt to not have a lot of progress in this one. But I'd still love to plan and think about what I wanna do, so by "next year (2nd Quarter)" I'll just be working on the actual designing and everything else.

#diary