May 25th, felt a little bit overwhelmed in the morning in terms of reading and writing. I impose a degree of tension on myself to act, but it overtook the productivity threshold and was more like stress. This is likely due to my mixed thoughts about the ends of my projects in light of relatively massive changes in goals as of late.

Later in the day I went to the beach to visit a friend on his birthday. I talked with my other friend about our entrepreneurial project. Again this is planning and building process seems magnified when friends are involved.

At night I wanted to do some karaoke so I hit up the local karaoke bar and belted out a couple tunes. The girl I met there had me sing some random Black Eyed Peas song I’ve never heard of before – and when she forgot the lyrics I had fun making up new random words.

May 26th, I woke up swiftly after 4 hours of sleep.

First day of my internship in a physical therapy office. The atmosphere was cool and there’s a lot for me to learn about the diagnoses process and modalities of treating injuries. There was a lot of down time though, so I’m planning little ways to make it more productive for me (such as carrying a small notebook to record all the most important info I pick up).

At 4:00PM I went to my internship seminar at URI and was in the twilight zone between slumber and consciousness the entire time. Tiredness tends to hit me like a brick if I’m too comfortable and don’t engage myself fully into something. The speaker’s monotone voice put me right out.

Despite this, I was WIDE awake for teaching Jiu Jitsu, and we had a fantastic class where everyone had a blast. Teaching new technique might have been what set the tone and engaged my mind.

Realizations:

-I came to understand how very Tasmanian-Devil-ish I tend to be in terms of projects, especially in the realm of studying personal development. I writing inquiries on a thousand topics, I read 2 books at a time. I take notes, I try to keep track, but some of it slips. This is the origin of my recent focus on studying / immersion in friendships and relationships. Limiting my research and writing a little bit is something I feel will prove to be useful.

-I came to realize that the yellow zone of productivity (level 2) is vague and should be broken up. It can entail tremendously stressed times where I’m grinding into some random project – and it can entail relatively “productive” activity while I have a good time with friends. Since I seemed to hover in that zone so much, it might prove useful next time to split a category like that into another two distinct levels.

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The next and final post is going to be my FINALE on the perspectives and lessons I learned through this project!

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