It's time for change

A positive one (hopefully)

Hey friend.

Welcome to February. The shortest month of the year.

This time, I’m changing things up a bit.

Not just for the main quest but in real life.

Let’s go.

Main quest 🛡

New month is in and as you know, I’ve been full time with the farm work.

What you may not know is that it’s been 14 days since I started doing this with my father. Also, I got my routine pretty much dialed in. I brainstormed a daily routine with Claude Sonnet that’s been working well.

For the first week it was like in college where I printed the schedule and saved it in my wallet. After every class I would check where I needed to go next. And after a week or two, the schedule would be ingrained into my brain that I don’t need to look at the schedule again.

The day time activities are pretty much the same with little variation. And the evening work has been pretty much the same also. That wasn’t intended but it’s what happened so far.

That’s well and good. 14 days it’s not a long time per se. The issue is not the work itself. It’s more the repetitive nature of it.

If you add to that the fact of dealing with my father (a 72 year old man who was raised the “old way” with a fixed mindset and little desire to change his ways unless he’s forced to by circumstances)… that starts taking a toll.

Expectation: Physical work would be too much and I would get sick or injured and couldn’t keep going.

Reality: Lots of previous work have taken things to a point where (almost) everything is quite predictable and the necessary effort is not that much.

What IS too much is dealing with unfulfilled expectations, poor communication, misunderstandings, bad attitude, and terrible emotional handling.

So…

A change is necessary.

For physical work and online work. Both.

At this point I can’t tell you what that is or how it would look like. But I can say that by next Sunday, the change should have already started.

I think this is one of those parts of entrepreneurship that most people don’t like. Facing a great deal of uncertainty, being ok with it, and making something positive from all that.

2 more weeks ahead of work to complete the full month. And then I will assess if it’s worth it or not.

Experiments 🧪

This week I’ve experimented with sleep… again.

Yeah I know. It’s the thing I’ve experimented with the most the past 5 years. And I’ve talked about that quite a few times here already. (Like in this one and also this one.)

This time what I’ve done is try a biphasic sleep pattern.

I get pretty tired after getting all the farm work done by 5:30 - 6 pm. And instead of plowing through like I would last year, I take a break to sleep and then shift focus when I wake up.

That is, I go to sleep at 6:30 - 7 pm and set an alarm for 90 minutes (1 sleep cycle).

When I wake up, I make dinner, set everything up for my short night time routine, and sit at the computer for the online work. That’s during a time block of around 3 - 4 hours max.

After that time is over, night time routine starts to don’t go to sleep immediately after watching screens for that long. I’ve gone to bed at midnight or 1 am and then wake up again around 5 hours later.

It’s been working so far without major drawbacks or complications. I’ll keep testing it out and report to you the results.

To consider 🤔

Now that we’re getting into February, how’s your year shaping up? Do you have any particular goals or themes for this month?

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That’s it for now.

Thanks for reading.

Catch you next week.

Cheers,

Juan.