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Weekly review: Week ending May 18, 2012

Busy week! Learned a lot from Jeremiah Owyang’s talk. Helped two clients. Yay!

From last week’s plans

  • Business
    • [X] Earn: E1 Tue-Thu – training, prototyping communities
    • [X] Earn: R1 Mon, Tue, Thu – not needed on Fri – backup instructions, technical interview
    • [X] Connect: Have lunch with mentor
    • [X] Connect: Take sketchnotes of Jeremiah Owyang talk
    • [-] Build: Migrate old time data for Quantified Awesome
    • [X] Build: Hire VA for data entry
    • [X] Build: Review applications for WordPress development
    • Build: Practised drawing figures
    • Build: Quantified Awesome: Added library requests
    • Build: Quantified Awesome: Improved clothes-tracking interface for multiple outfits
  • Relationships
    • [X] Host study group
    • Baked four pizzas
    • Gardened
    • Helped write a bio for my dad’s upcoming TEDxKatipunan talk
    • Planned the week of meals
    • Inquired about rates for cooking ($30/hour) and chores/errands ($25-35)
  • Life
    • [X] Have massage
    • [X] Get receipts typed in with line-item detail

Plans for next week

  • Business
    • [ ] Earn: E1 Tue-Thu – training, getting ready for conference
    • [ ] Earn: R1 Submit timesheet
    • [ ] Connect: Sat: Help out with Ladies Learning Code workshop
    • [ ] Connect: Tue: Drop by Hack Lab open house
    • [ ] Connect: Thu: Take notes at WordPress meetup (custom post types)
    • [X] Build: Upload sketchnotes to Google+
    • [ ] Build: Delegate more tasks
    • [ ] Build: Update my business accounts
  • Relationships
    • [ ] Plant front garden
    • [ ] Clear inbox
    • [ ] Practise making pepperoni pizzas until I can make awesome ones
  • Life
    • [ ] Start a “Stuff I Use” blog series

Time notes

  • Business: 55:11 (E1 23:11, R1 11:56, Quantified Awesome 1:51, drawing 6:37, connect 5:57)
  • Discretionary: 20:25 (gardening 2:07, writing 5:06, social 12:05)
  • Personal: 29:04 (biking 11:02, routines 11:51)
  • Sleep: 57:29 (average 8.2 hours per day)
  • Unpaid work: 5:46 (more cooking this week)

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