How I'm Training My Brain to Help Me Show Up Each Day

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This post was originally published on July 3, 2020 on my blog.

It's a chilly Friday morning and I feel good! Got my day all planned out - complete with working out, working on my Udemy course, and getting started with Eleventy for building out a website.

Tonight we're invited over to our neighbors' apartment for an apéro/game night, so we're looking forward to that, too.

I'm learning so much in my JavaScript course on Udemy. Right now, we're working on building a recipe-finding app using an API, and I'm seriously loving it.

The minute you pull up data from another website on your own website's UI is such a game-changer and makes you feel incredible as a developer! I can't wait to build so many more advanced projects this way.

Overall, it's been a great, productive, well-paced week. I've found that planning out my day on paper (in pencil, mind you - in case of changes) has been helping me enormously.

It's almost as if my brain has this semi-concrete plan or overall framework to guide it, and then it works behind the scenes to make sure I show up to everything on the list on time and ready to go.

Highly recommend having a general, written plan for each day if you're trying to get more sh*t done.

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Top comments (4)

Dana Ottaviani • Jul 3 '20

I enjoy pulling up data from APIs into my apps too. I keep a list of different ones I want to use in future projects.

I prefer to write out my plans as well. I use a bullet journal because it seems so much more concrete then adding tasks to a Google Calendar or some productivity app.