My 2024 in 366 Seconds

The "new year" really is such an arbitrary thing. There really isn't anything special about it. There's no reason you couldn't have done what you do today, yesterday. But I can't deny it's somehow very effective at getting you to start something you've been wanting to start, or restart something you stopped. So with the power of January 1st, I am restarting everything! ▶️ Bi-Weekly YouTube Videos ▶️ The Lego Project (197 models to go) ▶️ Daily Doodle ▶️ Weekly Doodle ... and introducing ... ▶️ Bi-Weekly Doodle! Yes, I have developed a new Bi-Weekly calendar. Daily Doodles were too much, Weekly Doodles were too much, surely a doodle every two weeks is doable?! So with only 26 Bi-Weekly Doodles, 28 Weekly Doodles, and 41 Daily Doodles, maybe 2025 is the year I can finish them all! In addition to those projects, I intend to stick to a Bi-Weekly schedule for my YouTube channel, with the first* (*second) video of the year posting on Monday the 6th, my "2024 in 366 Seconds" video. Which is another daily project I really want to do better with. I was fairly good at at least recording something each day, but I neglected inputting it into the app, so I have to sit for hours going through an entire year's worth of videos, when I could have just had it done, had I simply spent a few minutes each day doing it. I want to resume journaling again. Just writing down what I did each day. There was a cool website, "oh life" that would send you an email and you just replied to the email with what you did that day, and they would catalog them in a journal for you. I was pretty successful at keeping with that. The site eventually shut down unfortunately, but I found dailydiary.com which did the same thing. I kept with it for several years, but it was never great. I would end up having an entire week or more of unanswered dairy emails, and would batch respond to them, trying to remember what I did a week ago. Eventually I got really far behind and then something broke where the emails weren't even being set anymore. My plan for restarting "journaling" is to not journal at all. I think the writing, typing, especially on a phone was the biggest barrier to entry for keeping up with journaling. So instead, dictation! I have a Plaud note, a 3* credit card sized (mini rant: *3 credit cards thick, just because something has the same height and length as a credit card, you can't call it "credit card sized" if it's thicker than a credit card! A brick could be "credit card sized" by that logic!) anyway it's a small, and still very thin, audio recorder that can begin a recording within 3 seconds of touching it. It can then automatically sync those recordings to your phone and even transcribe them (though I think that requires a subscription, but I'm not too concerned about that ATM) so with any luck I can get into that habit of talking to that thing for a few minutes each day. If you've made it this far, I know what you're thinking, that's a lot. You couldn't even keep up with one of those things before, why is now different? Well now is different for many reasons, but a big one is medication. Last year I was officially diagnosed/rediagnosed with ADHD. Something that took almost 2 years I might add! I originally asked my doctor about it on July 14... 2022. I got my first prescription filled May 16 2024. 642 days!! Does our healthcare system work great or what?! But, in the end, yeah, it worked, and more importantly, the medication works. I can't say I feel any different when I take it. Like I don't feel changed, I don't feel like I'm "on something". I do however notice when I don't take it. I'll get a quarter of the way through the day and suddenly realize, oh shoot. "I guess I'm on my own today" is the best way I can put it. It definitely gives me energy, and it makes approaching the things and tasks, most of which I already want to do, easier. It lowers the "barrier of entry" to my life. The only side effect was it was keeping me up. I'd be lying in bed for hours trying to fall asleep. It felt like I drank a coffee at 4pm. I solved that by simply taking the medicine an hour earlier! That was it. I have an alarm in the morning, take the capsule, go back to sleep for another 20 minutes or so and then, pretty easily, wake up for the day. Like, I used to sleep as long as possible, like 5 minutes before I need to be at work, and even then I probably slept on the drive in! 😉 but now I wake up feeling rested, ready to go, even on weekends I don't sleep in much anymore, there's things I want to do! I still stay up late too. I was born at 9pm. I'm a night owl and always will be. So I get the best of both worlds! So I am so ready for 2025! The only thing that could stop me is if I break my left foot! But I shouldn't have to worry about that until around 2063! Lol 1se: https://1se.co https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGMbWcBXacX5hRS-8XoBejqVzQaOrJlcj Sincerely, Nick D. Clements ▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃ video228