Accomplishments are achieved from small steps you do every day. On July 10, 2022, I finished the last day of the Five Things To Do Every Day To Improve Myself journal. After finishing this project, I wanted to reflect on how doing this affected my life. In this post, I want to share what this journal is, why I did it, what kind of things I did, and what came out of it.
So I got this idea from a video by Peter McKinnon titled “I did this for 30 Days and it changed my life.” In this video, he shared a habit of creating 8 critical tasks every day and making sure you get those done. It’s a great video and you can watch it right here:
At the time this video was released, I was unemployed. I had lost my job in 2020 due to the pandemic and it had already been a year and half. When I saw this video, it inspired me to actually try and get back on my feet. So in the beginning of July 2021, I started this journaling project.
Now in the video, they did 8 critical tasks to do every day, but I decided to bring it down to 5 critical tasks. I wanted the tasks to focus on things I can do to improve myself, whether that improvement was something related to my career, fitness or my hobbies.
During the first month of my journal, most of my tasks was related to finding a job. Every day was applying to at least 3 jobs, updating my resume, updating my LinkedIn or just browsing for more jobs to apply to the next day. I also focused on gaining experience with my hobbies. I added tasks to improve my photography skills, learning how to edit, looking into stock photos and so on. Occasionally, I would have tasks on gaining experience in the esports scene as that was something I was looking to do as well.
Because of my persistence, I was actually able to land a job in August 2021 and from there, my tasks shifted towards focusing on my health. My tasks turned to going to the gym, hitting a certain number of steps, focusing on certain workouts and so on. I focused on this until the end of the month and because of this, I ended up losing about 40lbs!
After this I switched my focus back more towards photography and esports. At the time, I had taken photos from events since 2019 but never really shared them. I had Google Photo Albums but I never really had a place to showcase them. It wasn’t until I watched a few videos from Ali Abdaal that I was inspired to create my own website and blog. Because of his videos, I created this website you are on and used it as a place to showcase my esports photography. Each day on my tasks list was creating my website, editing old photos and keeping it updated. Because of this, I was able to feel comfortable enough to become a Great Lakes Region Correspondent for an esports organization, Immortals, where I was able to get paid for my photography.
I only gave myself 5 critical tasks to do every day. After one year of doing 5 critical tasks, I definitely feel like I’ve made so many improvements in my life. I was able to find a job, lose weight and even improve in my hobbies. I highly recommend giving this shot, even if it’s only for a month. Maybe after one month, you want to keep going to a year and maybe more!
I hope you guys enjoyed this post and feel inspired to making your own daily critical tasks list. But that is it for me, I’ll see you all next time!
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