It Takes Time to Build and reBuild

It’s been nearly a year since inspiration struck, it wasn’t planning but it happened. It’s taking longer to reach the goals I had set, yet in the process I have achieved a significant amount in unexpected ways

Today as I write this I am physically exhausted from the massive action I’ve been putting in since March. With the new me I focus on keeping going on a weekly basis and over a 52 week period things add up

Let’s Go!

Since 2017 I hyper-focused on resolving my emotional blockers and drainers – on just being OKAY. Last year I was able to finally ‘fix’ my lifetime of sleep issues and it’s been amazing. As the year end approached, I decided to get ahead jump start on the new year. It was time to give it another go

There Are No Shortcuts

Late last year I began studying my technical things again with the goal of setting myself up for the new change that’s coming in the coming decades. In this rebuild I wanted to do things properly, build strong foundations that would support me in the coming years

My Vision/Goal

The overall objective of this phase of my growth has been focused on understanding the underlying technologies that will shape the future. In turn affecting my own trajectory as well as those close to me

Gap Analysis

I’ve always had tech to fallback on and it’s been a blessing, 10 or 20 years ahead – what will the economies, business landscape and skills shortages be? How can I align my energy and build towards that?

Success Criteria

I have to be able to make it repeatable, predictable and most critically it can’t overwhelm me by taking away energy from my core to lead to another crash. I fixed my sleep, I have healthy heart and body routines that have been stress tested. If I start building my skills for external, ‘it can not and must not impact my emotional and physical well-being’

Schumpeter’s Gale’s – Creative Destruction

Now that I have my internal protocols working, let me now switch to gaining the competency of who things work in the inter-webs. In economics there a theory of creative destruction, in my head it’s about completely destroying something in order to rebuild something new. Although my inspiration was a trigger to get going, I had to take a new learners approach to my next phase

Where Do I Start

What resources will I need need in the future to support my goals? Let’s start by building a simple file storage box for the 4K videos I will shoot of Oxford and London. I have to be able to share it with selected people before publishing.

After my research phase I select TrueNAS as my media server, the cost to host large files in the cloud do not add up over the long term. Let’s get this up and running. I’ll be ready in 2 weeks (I say to myself)

Incredibly Frustrating

The amount of hours and hurdles I have had to jump through just to get to zero have been challenging, just when I think I have it figured out and working. Another issue crops up and I have to tweak, undo or start from scratch

Common Denominators

Over time as I build, rebuilt, tweaked and optimized the new systems the common denominators come through. In an effort to develop my new internal frameworks I look for the common threads under the surface. One things leads to another and then eventually there is a skill or protocol that is common across all areas

Build The Skill Through Practice

Through the process of trial and error I was able to practice by doing, in turn I layered on the skills and knowledge over time. Today, 6 months after beginning the new adventure I am able to to things in half a day that would have taken me weeks previously

Make it Repeatable and Predictable

Layering on all of the above skills, over time the competencies improve with having and mindset of efficiency. Reducing the number of steps to achieve a task or outcome to a least, reducing the dependencies and then able to repeat in a predictable time-frame. It’s important to be aware of this in the cycle, otherwise the changes of doing things inefficiently over and over will take away limited brain time from other higher value outcomes

Appreciate Micro-Win and One Week at a Time

This is the key component that was missing inside me in the past. Things were always never good enough or never done, I may have put 500 hours into something but subconsciously it was, ‘I haven’t done anything’ or ‘What’s the point, just don’t bother… it’s not worth it’. With this new system I am able to avoid the previous burnout loops and keep moving forward one week at a time.

Personal note: this article took me 4 hours from start to publish, down from a few months. Time to appreciate my micro-win!

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Until next time, look after yourself!