I delayed my writing yesterday. Yeah, I didn’t like myself yesterday that I couldn’t write. Life is a mess if it cannot be fluid. “Tomorrow” is a great chance for change.
I felt like human’s existence basically anti-entropy sessions one after another. I should have a better Q1 2025 – if judging from the 5am practice alone, for me it was not consistent at all.
But this dawn, the dislike of myself and determination to make a change finally pushed me to set the open-world goals for the 5am practice. Maybe the way I designed my goals 3 months ago were wrong- I should never limit it into 100 or 300 days- it’s like you should never set yourself a fix-amount money goals or fix-type relationship goals in general- your life deserves to be limitless and it’s up to you to break set-typed cirlce.
So I rised this morning, regaining the peace of my mind and the determination I longed-for, starting to write.
I was trying to do a Q1 review yesterday and to my surprise- I did not lay any blueprints for 2025 New Year Resolution 3 months ago- but if rating roughly from my gut feeling- I will rate myself only a B- (maybe even C+): It was just not good enough.
If I’m being honest with myself, below you should have done better:
1) Daily 5am Practice you were inconsistent
The completion of the challenge end of 2024 makes you wonder where the next goals should be and you were not ready for the next challenge that you even cannot do 10 days consistently during Q1.
That’s what we were saying: success not necessarily a good thing and might be the start of declining if not managing well.
Good thing is that I already have this Q1 failure and I accepted it – I still have today and Q2. The feeling of regret and insatisfaction pushed me to set another better goals for Q2 and rest of my days.
2) Measuring from company level- you were not catching the timeline of developments
There was a saying – we always over-estimate what we can do in 1 year and under-estimate what we can achieve in 10 years. It was true.
When I took a look at my notebook for the rough project plans in 2025- I remembered I did it with so much confidence and thought I could definitely achieve them – now looking back almost everything was delayed- this is life…
Should I blame myself for all these? No.
I could blame myself for not consistently following the 5am routines but you can’t blame the results in any case. The results are forged by hundreds of parameters uncontrollable by you.
I measured them and found out there are at least 2 months of delay for any milestones– so next time when I’m planning quarterly or monthly- I should have keep this buffer in mind.
3) Measuring from people around you level- you should have more empathy and gratitudes for them
I was never a cold person but growing up have brought me so much coldness inside- if you value warmth, you should have been a warmer person – I mean truly care for the people around you. (that you chose them to be around you.)
If thinking positively of what I have achieved in the past Q1:
To highlight I think, I’ve mapped up the core competences of QCP and have quite positive progress with our companies in general. (Definitely with room to improvements but I can feel the progress weekly in general for this priority.) Mentality point of view (as I did not allocate enough time and resources for Ice’Q), I think I’m more comfortable with what I’m going with new companies – but for its real progress in Q2, I still need to make room mentally and physically for its daily actual progress. For the relationships point of view, I think I’m more comfortable with myself comparing to Q4 2024- I’m more capable of taking care myself than before.
If summarizing what I learned the most in Q1 2025- it’s Patience.
I’m getting more patient for myself, also of people around me, and things happening to me. Patience is the ability to accept the imperfectness now and have the courage/determination to change it overtime next. Patience is calmness of mind with any incidents occurring and capability of handling any type of incidents under fierce circumstances.
For the Q2 2025, naming 3 things I would like to see progress in:
1) Consistently following the routines of 5am and give yourself a second chance to bounce back during the tracks
If 1 day you couldn’t make it, do make yourself back to routine the next day. Do not indulge in entropy. Allow yourself to fail but remember to win the next day.
2)Breaking-down the metrics of the companies/projects you’re running, into 3 measurable weekly goals, and do it consistently
Do not overwhelm yourself- only achieving 3 important goals each week for each of them. 3 companies, 3 measurable weekly KPIs, 5 mini-goals each day, less is more.
3)Forging a better relationships with people around you- be a warmer person that can feel the present daily, and pass this mentality along to them.
Review the relationships status monthly and see what you can improve and add-value to them. Their existence is the meaning of your existence as well. Do at least 3 checks before Q3 2025 and measure your progress on this front.
12 weeks are so easy to pass and I look forward to seeing your state by then.
Denoiser into Flow.
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