A Shitty Start
I had a pretty shitty start to my day.
Woke up with an itchy right eye, which totally ruined my workout session.
But I managed to still do my walk 🚶around the park 🌳.
Over breakfast, my mother began one of her nagging sessions again 🗣️.
Considering how I’ve been feeling at this point, I would say that the nagging was much harder to listen to.
As mother got closer to the end of her nagging, I felt the need to just take some deep breaths.
As tempting as it would be to want to respond/react (even non-verbally), we knew it would be better to just remain silent.
One thing we did learn in the last few months is that not reacting actually helps us to save energy.
The last thing that we needed was to spend our energy unnecessarily.
As we’re finally stepping out of the house this morning, my sinusitis 🤧 began flaring up again.
I suspected that it must be because of the dust from the sanding that my father was doing on the wall of my room last night (fixing & patching a portion of it after our recent purging operation).
Not blaming him. It’s just bad timing. And I wasn’t wearing a mask at that time. So, yeah, no surprise.
I guess I wasn’t expecting him to be doing that last night either, so everything was a little unexpected.
Choosing “Intentionality” Today
Honestly, I think it took all of our energy just to show up today.
I was tempted to make a couple of decisions this morning that would’ve been reactive to the things that had happened this morning.
But we chose to exercise the use of our 3 Core Philosophies: Purpose, Intentionality & Clarity.
We came to the conclusion that our decision & action would’ve created an outcome we would regret later, and so we decided to not go ahead.
I’m really glad that we didn’t react today.
Because I almost did.
Reinforcing Our Self-Declaration Statement
We took to LinkedIn though.
We do not feel the need to explain ourselves, or why we have chosen to follow our new daily mantra:
“We don’t chase. We attract.”
But of all the days, today felt like the kind of day where we needed to do it for ourselves.
We needed it.
Psychologically. Mentally. Especially Emotionally.
This is our “line in the sand” moment.
This is our self-reminder that as challenging as some days may be, we will not fall back into the trap of trusting in a system whose rules were never designed to help us succeed.
This is us…STANDING OUR GROUND.
Even if it feels quite scary some times.
Taking Care of Our Health & Body IS NOT an Expense. It is an Investment.
I thought about getting some medication from Cheers today.
But I saw the pricing labels, and it turned me away.
After thinking about it using Gemini Pro, and considering how bad my sinusitis was becoming, we were all in agreement that spending S$10 to S$15 on a box of medication isn’t an expense, but an investment in our health.
We are using S$10 to S$15 to protect the value of our time & energy (worth S$2,100) for an entire afternoon.
We’re calling it an investment.
We decided to grab an early lunch.
I decided we would have Bak Chor Mee (S$5).
I mean, for a foodcourt inside a downtown area, S$5 meals are hard to find.
I asked the auntie at the stall to also give me a big bowl of soup, so I could put more pepper into it.
That meal today felt really satisfying.
We enjoyed our meal today.
After lunch, we walked over to that Value Mart that we came across recently, and I decided to check out the pricing of the medication that they have available.
I noticed the Panadol Sinus Max (S$12.40).
I knew almost immediately that it is a good value, even if our overall budget is going to be reduced by it.
With that, I walked back over to Cheers, and I decided to get myself another one of those mini-tub Meiji Yogurt.
We went for the Mango 🥭 flavour today.
It was nice. We stood there for the next 5-7 minutes, and we just enjoyed our yogurt.
Investing in the Tools of a Master Builder/Artisan versus Having Better Meals
One thing that came up for me was that decision to which we contemplated about pausing our existing Claude Pro subscription.
But it also felt like a reactive decision.
That is the same kind of decisions that our former shell would’ve made.
It was a decision driven by panic and fear.
We are not going to do that.
We are not going to make that same mistake again.
That was the very same kind of decision that led to us losing a pretty good laptop 💻 investment at the start of this year.
Weizhi panicked. And he sold it. 🤦
Lesson learnt.
As we considered our new meal option and how much it would costs us in total, I believe maintaining both of our Claude Pro & Google One (Gemini Pro) subscriptions is a wiser decision.
If there is not new results/updates, the one subscription we can cancel, is the LinkedIn Premium (50% discount promo).
We can save that money.
We always knew, going into that investment would carry risks.
LinkedIn Premium has never really quite justified itself for us in the past.
So we knew getting it again might not actually yield anything new.
We hoped to be surprised. But it’s okay that we’re not so far.
We did make good use of those InMail credits though.
Even though nothing really panned out either.
That should save us another S$25.99 (another week of meals).
Rested and Functional
After popping two pills 💊, and knocking out for roughly 45 minutes, we are slowly feeling better.
Our energy-levels are also stabilizing at roughly 65% to 70% right now.
For a day like today, I think 70% is considered a blessing.
But I also believe that that 70% energy is also a result of making intentional choices today.
If we had allowed our morning’s experiences to dictate our decisions & actions today, things could’ve been much worse.
Now, all we’re going to do is to conserve our energy.
Today, shall be an intentionally slow day.
And that’s okay too.
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