I have been testing a regime of workload for months now in which I work continuously for about 14 to 18 hours (morning till 5am) days for almost 7 days a week every week. I have found out that my body breaks down once about every 5 to 7 days of work like this. Time for a reschedule as the priorities are adjusted as the new start up will be launching in April and I need to be at my best, mentality and physically. I have also found a need to rate and also reassess my own abilities in order to keep track of my level and those I meet.
Work:
7 days as usual, 12 hours at least every day.
Email replies: Every Tuesday and Friday
Twitter: Check and reply every 3-5 hours or necessary
Facebook: Check and reply every 4 hours or necessary
Blogging here: At least once every week excluding announcements
New Schedule
(Each activity: 1 – 3 hours)
Swimming: Mondays, Wednesdays (Fitness)
Gym: Tuesdays, Thursdays (Endurance)
Tennis: Fridays (Agility and Thinking)
Movie: Once every week (Relaxation and Thinking)
Photography: Once every week, Tuesdays preferred (To understand the joy of living)
Drawing: Twice every week, Tuesdays and Thursdays preferred (Practice and for giving)
Programming: Once or Twice every week (Mondays and Sundays preferred)
Writing Snail Mails: Every Wednesdays
Preparation times will be cut to the minimum, 15 minutes to prepare, 1 hour to cool down.
Reassessment of self
How do you judge the capability of people?
How do you judge the capability of yourself?
One of my favorite pastimes in the past (now rarely) is playing video games like role playing games e.g Final Fantasy, Red Alert and Dynasty Warriors (of the such). One of the most brilliant functions they used is the leveling up system whereby your skills level up after winning battles so that you can gain more skills. I think this is pretty accurate in life as well. I shall try to assess myself by what I think my skills are in according to the best and worst I have seen. These are the skills in which I think will be most relevant in the future as to how our generation and the next will be graded. Coding is an especially valuable skill in future as not everyone is able to hire a good programmer for their own online endeavors and hiring again to troubleshoot could cause delays to the work-plan. If coding is not critical to your work, you can replace coding with system skills, this however will be in a different grading system.
I can Write: 8.5/10
I can Design: 8/10
I can Code: 7.5/10
I can Communicate: 8/10
I can Present: 8/10
Total Score: 40
Percentage Score (100%): I am 80% which is an A-.
Maynas Eric Futurist Skills Ranking System:
P:100
S+: 95-99
S-: 90-94
A+:85-89
A-:80-84
B+:75-79
B-:70-74
C+:65-69
C-:60-64
D+:55-59
D-:50-54
My assessment of myself is just making it to the A- grade which is backed up by achievements and accomplishments. I would think it’s enough for the time being while continuously going through the six sigma process to upgrade thyself. I hope to get an A+ in the years to come and to be known as an S- will be really amazing. I do not think that I am talented enough to be a strong S+, that would be a strong polymath like Benjamin Franklin or Leonardo da Vinci.
How do you grade yourself in the above system? If you are not into coding, no worries, just deduct 20 percentage points from the system (coding) and also your points to be over 40 instead of 50. High achievers should be in the B+ to A+ range here. This research of the system is pretty accurate but needs more case studies to confirm (Derived from the RAP method).
6, 7, 8 and above 8 digits income earners
However, if your skills in any 2 of the fields are 9 and above, you could be an exceptional case of talent as well. Let’s say you score 9 and above for presentation and writing, I would be surprised if you are not a 7 digit earner yet because you definitely have the capability to do so. Or if your score is 9 and above for both design and communication, that should put you in the 6 figures income bracket potential. It’s a whole different story if you can FIND and hire the 9 and 10′s you need, that will put you in the potential of 8 and above 8 digits income earner.
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One of the reasons why I’m subscribed to your blog, posts like these. :) :)
I’ve been a productivity nut for a past two years but never really found out how to be an over-achiever in more than a few things until just recently. I learned that pushing yourself to exhaustion day after day, week after week just messes you up and creates an imbalance. Also being split between too many things, partly ones that don’t matter, just blow your focus on goals.
The first thing I did was get my priorities straight. What am I doing that I don’t want to do and if I don’t want to do them, why am I? I got rid of the “well, because I have to” mentality and started the week with a “everything I do, even when I’m not working, is going to get me where I want to go.”
These were the three things that were holding me back:
- Focusing on things that didn’t matter, not having a well defined and clear goals
- Lack of sleep(major one)
- Not managing time effectively
- Not having a positive attitude toward things I didn’t feel like doing.
I love the part you brought up about self reassessment! Never thought of that before. Plus I didn’t know you were that interested in coding:) I’m going to write down my reassessment today! This is great!
I actually wrote a blog post about a similar topic. What it takes to achieve excellence.
I look forward to more of your writing:) Lots of what you have written has certainly helped me change a few aspects of my life for the best.
All the best!
You Rock!
Clinton
This post is very good, every now and then you have to take a step back and do an honest self assessment.
Sometimes you let yourself get into bad (and unproductive) habits and without looking on these behaviors externally, you’ll never get rid of them.
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