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Modern Life Is So Busy—A Recap of the First Half of 2024 📋
Why is it already June 30?
Why is it already June 30?
(GPT is on the cover again today!)
We're already halfway through 2024, so in this post, I'm going to summarize my progress in the first half of the year against the action items I set at the end of 2023. I'll also list any additional things that I think are "worthy" of being organized.
I wrote down the items from the 2024 action items below.
For more details on each item, see the article!
Honestly, I never did this. Instead, I did a six-month retrospective activity called 메모어, where I would take time to reflect on my week in order to submit a weekly retrospective. In that activity, I was required to write at least 400 words per reflection. I would feel overwhelmed when I picked up the keyboard, but once I started writing, I would end up writing around 1000 words.
The good thing about writing is that it really helped me organize my thoughts while writing, so I'm going to take this retrospective process and make it somewhat personal. (I'm not applying to be the next Memoer... I need a break.) I wrote "daily" in that action item, but I realized that's harder to keep than I thought. I'd be happy if I could do it once a week.
👉 In the second half of the year, if it is difficult to do it every day, let's have a personal reflection time even once a week.
I've been able to keep this goal through Gutenberg. I have to write well arbitrarily because it's the end of the 9th period and I'm waiting for the 10th period to be recruited, but if I write this post, I can say that I kept June (but it's a retrospective post.) Next time, I should write a simple technical post. Also, a post about my recent study progress!
**👉 For the second half of the year, I plan to do the following. The number of articles I have to write before the 10th term is about four. Of these, write at least 2 technical articles! Write as consistently as I did in the ninth semester during the tenth semester.
What can I say... I've met a lot of new people, not only at work but also in different roles, and the people I met through 글또, 굳이 프로젝트, and (일주일에 한 번 굳이? 싶은 것들을 실천해보는 모임) are the majority of my new connections this year.
I've met a lot of people from the developer community on GitHub, and a lot more people from different fields on projects. What they all have in common is that they are very motivating people with good execution, and now I want to be that motivating person again.
I will continue to meet new people this year and look forward to meeting new people in the future.
**👉 Let's continue to meet new people and learn about their good qualities in the second half of the year! To be continued!
I kept it up until May. I started climbing in earnest and started running lightly.
However, in mid-May, I injured my back after a bad fall while climbing. Luckily, I didn't have any major problems, but I had some severe muscle pain and was banned from exercising except walking... So I couldn't exercise for a month and a half. I replaced it with walking as much as possible 🚶♀️
I'm feeling much better now, so I'm slowly starting to get back into light running! Climbing will have to be taken back down a notch...
**👉 Let's keep up the running and climbing in the second half of the year!
I was a little worried because I'm a hobbyist, but I decided to take violin lessons from June. Before I made that decision, I had been doing a little bit of everything, but... The decisive factor for me to take up the violin again was when I announced that I would participate in the school's regular concert as a graduate... 😇 Thanks to that, I didn't have to look elsewhere and just played the violin!
I'm taking my first proper lesson besides the brief one I had in elementary school, and I'm happy that the teacher is teaching me so well and scolding me so well(?) I don't know how much better I'll get in the remaining 2 months, but for the time being, I'm done with other hobbies and it's all about the violin! (please!!!)
👉 In the second half of the year... No other hobbies until the recital, and then we'll figure out what to do after the recital!
I checked my action items and it seems that I'm still keeping 80% of them, so I guess I didn't have a bad time.
However, I think I missed some action items that were business-related. I was disappointed with myself for overlooking them! So, I'll write down things that I would like to organize separately from the action items.
The project that I focused on until May was well finalized. I wrote the Wrap up post a bit early (mid-April), but there were still things to follow up on. I took the last step and participated in the presentation. I was proud to be a part of the project because the response from people in the healthcare industry was so great. It was a project that I consider to be a growth experience in terms of technology and collaboration.🤩
However, for about a month after May, i.e. in June, I went back to the original project and have been struggling. Perhaps because it's been two years since I've been involved, a lot of things have changed, so I'm learning the project from scratch. There was a lot of information to take in (with only a basic context of the project domain), and I was getting a bit burned out.
Unlike May, when I managed to keep up with my action items and work well, June was a bit overwhelming.
Looking back on the past years, I realized that I had a lot of personal schedules in June. I had a birthday at the end of May, so I tended to make appointments whenever someone contacted me after a long time. In addition, this year, I was constantly participating in coffee chats and other events to network with people I met in external activities. On top of that, I had morning study sessions... So when I looked at my calendar, I had a full schedule every day for the entire month. There were so many things going on all at once 😱 .
I feel like I didn't take care of a lot of my obligations, which made me feel worse (maybe even self-conscious). I'm starting to wonder if I was just busy juggling work and personal schedules.🙄
By the last weekend of June, I had nothing scheduled and was taking a break, but after work on Friday, I suddenly broke out in hives all over my body. I went to the doctor, and he guessed it was an immune system issue, but I took the prescribed medication and it cleared up within a day. I still have some after-effects, but I'm happy about it 💊.
Yesterday and today, as I rested and thought about it, I realized that I can't be so greedy anymore, doing whatever I want. Whether it's distributing my energy, thinking about my health, or considering my work-life balance... I think the time has come for me to be more vigilant about being 100% greedy in everything. So, I'm going to organize the external activities I've been doing one by one and wait for the next 10 posts. (I didn't have a problem when I only did one external activity, so I thought I should do the one thing I wanted to do the most).
**I've decided that by being selective and focused, I'll be able to balance my life and work and not overwhelm myself. When I feel like I can handle it again, I'll probably go back to it, but for now, I think it's for the best! 💪 ðŸ
Still, for these half years, I feel like I've lived the life I wanted to live.
I'm disappointed that I didn't get anything done on my action items, but I'm going to stick with what I've set up rather than add more. I don't want to overdo it and tire myself out, so I'll just say that at the time I set it, I wanted to take care of my life more, and that's how I understand Tengu at that time. Instead, if I had to define it more wisely, I would say that my action item for next year is 업무와 삶을 나눠서 세부적으로 정할 필요가 있다. 😎
In addition to the action items, I'm also trying to think of ways to reflect on my life and build on it. I've started a survey about myself, for example! Each of these activities will help me continue the process of refining and shaping myself. I hope to spend the rest of 2024 well (without pushing myself too hard) so that my year-end reflection will be one of maximizing satisfaction and minimizing regret!