I spend much longer on this project than I had anticipated, but I think I drew a lot from it and I am pretty pumped to write up a finale about the entire process.

As a review, I made a point to visualize before major activities throughout my day. Sometimes this involved my internship, teaching grappling class, preparing a dinner, reading and writing personal development material, or anything else that occupied a block of time.

I gauged the activities with three figures: the number of minutes I visualized for, the intensity and “juice” of that visualization (0 to 10), and my rating of the overall experience of the event itself (0 to 10).

(X, Y – Z). X = minutes spent visualizing, Y = intensity of visualization, Z = intensity of experience.

The rating system was mostly to keep tabs on how I felt generally – its specific relevance and validity is looked at more closely at the bottom of this post.

Here’s a list of all that I recorded, including activities from July 8th to July 27th. In the actual writings I did, I included detail about each event, but the amount of typing I’d have to do in order to get that done would be astounding and carple tunnel-inducing. Enjoy:

1, 5 – 9 (Teaching a private lesson in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu)

2, 5 – 8.5 (Internship)

2, 5.5 – 4 (Writing a Time Management Presentation)

2, 4 – 7.5 (Internship)

0, 0 – 7.5 (Teaching Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Class)

3, 6 – 5 (Writing a Time Management Presentation)

0, 0 – 8.5 (Beach with Friends)

0, 0 – 10 (Friend’s House at Night)

1, 5 – 7.5 (Teaching Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Class)

1, 4 – 8.5 (Beach with Friends)

2, 8 – 7.5 (Weekly Review of my Files and Projects)

2, 5 – 8 (Internship)

0, 0 – 9 (Friend’s Party)

2, 8 – 7.5 (Writing a Time Management Presentation)

2, 5 – 8 (Teaching a Private Lesson in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu)

5, 7.5 – 9.5 (Teaching a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Class)

2, 5 – 7.5 (Internship)

1, 6 – 8.5 (University Seminar)

0, 0 – 8 (Writing a Time Management Seminar)

2, 7 – 9.5 (Internship)

2, 6 – 9 (Teaching a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Class)

0, 0 – 8 (Beach at Night)

10, 7 – 7 (Internship)

0, 0 – 7 (Gym)

1, 7.5 – 8.5 (Club in Newport)

1, 5 – 7.5 (Beach)

2, 6 – 7 (Writing)

2, 8.5 – 9 (Night in Providence)

0, 0 – 7 (Water Skiing)

1, 6 – 8 (Teaching a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Class)

0, 0 – 6.5 (Beach)

0, 0 – 5 (Picnic with Family)

1, 6 – 7.5 (Weekly Update on Files and Projects)

3, 8 – 8 (Business Consulting Meeting)

2, 7 – 7 (Business Meeting)

0, 0 – 7 (Teaching a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Class)

3, 7.5 – 9 (Club in Narragansett)

2, 6 – 8 (Internship)

1, 7 – 8.5 (University Seminar)

2, 7 – 9 (Toastmasters)

2, 5 – 7.5 (Teaching a Private Lesson in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu)

0, 0 – 8 (Writing a Time Management Presentation)

1, 5 – 8 (Teaching Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Class)

0, 0 – 6 (Business Meeting)

1, 5 – 8.5 (Sales Class)

3, 7 – 7.5 (Writing a Presentation on Time Management)

2, 5 – 8.5 (Teaching a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Class)

2, 7 – 6 (Club in Providence)

o, o – 9 (Reading “StrengthsFinder 2.0″)

1, 6 – 9 (Coaching for Time Management)

0, 0 – 7.5 (Meal with Mom)

1, 6 – 7.5 (Club in Narragansett)

1, 5 – 9.5 (Beach with Friends)

0, 0 – 8.5 (Carpentry with my Father)

2, 7 – 8 (House Parties)

2, 5 – 8 (Weekly Review of Files and Projects)

1, 7 – 8 (Running an In-House Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Tournament)

0, 0 – 6 (Hanging with Friends)

2, 8 – 7 (Friend’s House)

1, 6 – 7 (Business Consulting Class)

1, 6 – 8 (Visit Friend on the Beach)

0, 0 – 6.5 (Teaching a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Class)

 

Whoa thats a lot of stuff… 

Keep in mind that this doesn’t include all events that took a block of my time, but this is probably the majority of them – its everything I recorded.

The rankings themselves are rough and subjective, and many factors could have contributed to the scored of “intensity” for those various activities. 

Of course, it is very, very likely that one’s thoughts during an activity is the main determinant of one’s quality of experience.

The rankings may still be relevant in terms of referring to them to see basic trends.

 

The finale to this Life Experiment will be composed shortly. It contains personal insights from the experiment, trends in my own experience, and information recorded over the last week involving my mental focus during specific activities and how that might have contributed to the experience itself (I pose, after all, that the activity of one’s focus and thoughts during an activity is the main determinant factor in one’s quality of experience).

Don’t miss it.