It was an awesome week. I hit the ground running in my consulting engagement, coming up with a useful feature for the theme and learning more about analytics. I’ve also been working on learning more about sales. The sales script I drafted helped me a lot with a phone conversation, and I’ve been working on drawing and writing more pitches.

I’ve been working on exploring more of the vegetables and ingredients at the supermarket. This week, I prepared fennel and celery salad, and today I cooked quinoa for the first time. (Turns out to be yummy with dried fruits and nuts as some kind of breakfast.)

And I biked! Whee! Temperatures had been above zero for a number of days, and since there was no rain forecast, I biked to work on Thursday. The Martin Goodman trail I usually take to work turned out to be maintained and lit during winter (except for a small dark patch). Aside from a couple of snowbanks that I carefully walked my bike through, it was easy riding, and I made it in around the same time it normally takes in fall. The earliest I’d biked last year was February 21. If I can bike in January – and if I can slowly work my way up to biking in other weather conditions – that opens up lots of possibilities.

… and I’ve been going to krav maga and fitness classes with W-, so yay!

My calendar’s starting to fill up, but it’s a good sort of filling up. The year is off to a great start.

Blog posts

My favourite blog post from this week was #7 (Reading old letters and relearning how to write), because it felt good to explore that.

1. Cooking: Warm lentil salad with sausages
2. Emacs Org: Display projects with a few subtasks in the agenda view
3. Planning by the numbers: Checking the length of my runway
4. Visual book review: The Art of Pricing: How to Find the Hidden Profits to Grow Your Business–Rafi Mohammed
5. Sketchnote: ENT101 Lived It Lecture–Kunal Gupta, Polar Mobile
6. Business experience report: Amending my T2 corporate tax return
7. Reading old letters and relearning how to write

Accomplished this week

• Business
  • Earn
    • Achievement: Wrote a sales script and made the call!
    • Achievement: Asked for an introduction and drafted one!
    • Resumed consulting with E1 – analytics, theme
    • Followed up on I2 learn page
  • Build
    • Drew pitch for FITC
    • Contacted Whiteboard Studio regarding event
    • Asked for an introduction to GROWtalks organizers
    • Checked if authorship worked
    • Followed up / drafted testimonial for Jennifer and Nathan
    • Set up interview with Pat
    • Did another weekly review with Criselda
    • Talked to Patricia Kambitsch about partnering
  • Connect
    • Met Raj Dhiman
    • Attended “superpower league” get-together
    • Followed up with quick notes from conversation with Matt Gray
    • Drew thank-you cards
    • Met Matt of Bitmaker Labs
• Relationships
  • Went to appointment
  • Brought Leia to vet for vaccinations
  • Learned another vegetarian dish
  • Prepared something vegetarian for superpower league
• Life
  • Tried biking in winter!
  • Reached out to last month’s Awesome Foundation Toronto winner for an update
  • Reset my sleep schedule

Plans for next week

• Business
  • [ ] Earn: E1 – analytics, etc.
  • [ ] Earn: Follow up on invoice
  • [ ] Build: Read Work the System
  • [ ] Build: Follow up with GROWtalks
  • [ ] Build: Simplify sketchnote based on Tipera’s feedback
  • [ ] Build: Draw pitch for MEGA Networking sketchnotes, answer questions
  • [ ] Build: Sketch Rock the Monkey seminar
  • [ ] Connect: Have lunch with Sharon Sehdev
  • [ ] Build: Do another weekly review with Criselda
  • [ ] Connect: Go to EdTechTO get-together?
  • [ ] Build: Prepare for TEDxOCADU
• Relationships
  • [X] Learn how to cook with quinoa
  • [X] Help Rachel learn programming with Processing
  • [ ] Help W-‘s parents with computer
  • [ ] Write more letters
• Life
  • [ ] Declutter
  • [ ] Study for the Canadian citizenship test

Time review

• Business: 46.8 hours (E1: 24.4, Connect: 6.3, Drawing: 1.0, Illustration: 1.1, Coding: 1.7)
• Discretionary: 22.9 hours (Social: 8.7, Writing: 1.9)
• Personal: 23.9 hours (Routines: 11.6)
• Sleep: 61.4 hours – average of 8.8 hours per day
• Unpaid work: 12.3 hours (Commuting: 4.0, Cook: 2.5, Tidy: 4.5)