New Year, Daily Planning - a podcast by Kent C. Dodds

What up friends this is Kent C. Dodds on three minutes with Kent and I am
here it's a 21st or the yeah 2021 the first of January and I've been
thinking about a lot of things, you know, you've got New Year's resolutions
and stuff and my New Year's resolution my word of the year is planning so
what I was in fifth grade, I was homeschooled and by my mom she has adegree in elementary education, so she homeschooled me and my two sisters
that right my little sister and sister.To just older than me and we it worked out really well for me at some point
after a month or so of of going through homeschool. I started wanting toget my school done really quickly and my mom was just like well, I've got
to take care of your sisters too, so I'll just write down a list of all the
things that you have to do and then you can do them whenever you wantbecause I was I was pretty like a self-starter and so yeah, she would write
it down the night before and then in the morning I would wake up sometimesaround like,Four or five I'm not not too much later than that though and I
would get working I would stop for a little bit to have breakfast with thefamily while the rest of the my siblings went to school and stuff and then
I get back to it and I'd finish my school for the day like nine or ten in
the morning and then I have the whole day to do whatever I wantedunfortunately at the time lots of what I wanted to do was hang out on the
computer playing games and stuff which are not proud of but it like I
changed a huge amount during that time.I became much more of a self-starter and and a very task-oriented.And
goal-oriented it made a huge impact on my life, so yeah, I was just superproductive so I've been thinking about that and just kind of wanting to
have that level of productivity back and so for this year.I'm gonna be I I have a notebook that I'm gonna be using to write down what
I'm supposed to do and the next day just like my plans what the things that
I want to make sure I do and it's not like super planned out or anything
like not the time of day necessarily but it's just like here the things
that I'm going to accomplish tomorrow.
And I've tried it the last couple days and I haven't been like working or
anything it's been like family stuff but it's been working pretty great so
that's what I'm gonna be trying to do. I hope you all had a wonderful new
year so operation and have a great start to your new year.I think one of the things that I'm gonna try and plan is every weekday.
I'll I'll do something here on the three minutes with Kent podcast, so if
you want to subscribe and keep up with my journey, it'll be around like
coding topics and just life topics and stuff like that three minutes onhope you have a wonderful day bye.

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