First of the Year: Self-Motivation... is hard.Thursday, January 10, 2013

This doesn't seems like a great first journal entry for 2013 (two thousand thirteen) but meh. Gotta start somewhere. So, I finished my New Zealand Chronicle journal series and I don't think I'll really post any of them up. Reading through them seemed too personal and critical of my time in New Zealand (plus I linked my Rooster Teeth profile to my facebook but I doubt any of my "friends" will read this).

So, I'm back here in my hometown and I have lost almost all kinds of motivation. It sucks and it's hard to self-motivate. I prefer a strict scheduled timetable that was assigned to me. My solution was using my old timetable and...

First of the Year: Self-Motivation... is hard.Thursday, January 10, 2013

This doesn't seems like a great first journal entry for 2013 (two thousand thirteen) but meh. Gotta start somewhere. So, I finished my New Zealand Chronicle journal series and I don't think I'll really post any of them up. Reading through them seemed too personal and critical of my time in New Zealand (plus I linked my Rooster Teeth profile to my facebook but I doubt any of my "friends" will read this).

So, I'm back here in my hometown and I have lost almost all kinds of motivation. It sucks and it's hard to self-motivate. I prefer a strict scheduled timetable that was assigned to me. My solution was using my old timetable and substituting my own subjects for my next goal. God damn it, it's hard. I get part way through my first topic and wonder what's new on Reddit and other various sites.

Then like a baseball getting bigger and bigger... It hit me.

My productivity in New Zealand was much better and I know why. The internet was insanely expensive. Also, I went out a lot to study at the university's library until closing time and later moved to another venue (usually Starbucks). Realistically, limiting my internet usage seems the "easiest". It has been said and so it shall be done starting tonight... after I watch an old Rooster Teeth video podcast.

Word of the day (to expand my vocabulary): Esoteric.

- belong to a select few
- understood by or meant only for a select few who have special knowledge or interest.

I've been reading a book. It was first published in 1961. I started a new rule when reading books: If I can't simply describe or define a word that I recognise I have to write it down and look it up. To keep this journal relatively short... there are a lot of words that I do not know.