11:36 PM

It always feels great getting all of my daily workouts done, as numerous as they are. I have a large variety of workouts that I complete each day, even though I don't do much of each. I still haven't really experienced any physical appearance changes, my weight is still the same, I still largely look the same. I'm not sure if I have gotten any stronger either because I don't attempt maxes that often. By maxes, I mean something like attempting the most push-ups or pull-ups in a row that I could do. I mainly just go for the minimum, and then stop.

One thing is for certain though, I'm certainly not getting any weaker. I may or may not be getting any stronger, but I definitely am not getting any weaker. There's no exercise that is harder for me today than a month ago, every single exercise is easier now.

It's weird to me that several years of my life have passed by where I did not do these exercises, because what else was I doing throughout the day? It takes only a few minutes to complete these exercises, and I had those same minutes 10 years ago, even 5 years ago, but I didn't exercise. So what the heck was I doing? If I had started 5 years ago, by now I would have made so much progress.

I guess this is the same in a lot of areas in life. Beneficial actions that we know are beneficial, but we don't do them for some reason, and there is literally no excuse not to do them either. In terms of every possible benefit, there is no reason to not do them, and yet sometimes we don't do them.

I think a decent list of things we know we should be doing but often don't are: exercising (both strength and cardio daily), not harming and not killing animals (aka being vegan), investing, saving, tracking our budget, building a social media presence, building a business or side-hustle, studying and advancing our careers, reading good books, etc.

These are things separate from whatever stage of life we we are in. By stage of life I mean the life situations that are practically unavoidable for most people, we are just thrust in them without much say, such as going through school or work. We can do all of those things above regardless if we are in school advancing through the grades and college, working a full time job, or even raising a family. But there's truly only so much limited time in a day, so without a proper plan or sticking to habits, they won't be completed.

I honestly think that my habits will take months and even years before they start blossoming into anything decent. I don't think I have experienced any kind of worthwhile achievement from doing these habits nearly every day for the past month.

Singing practice is something that I started recently, after finding out I can just yell or sing into a pillow to muffle my sound. The only other times I got to practice singing was only sometimes while driving. I didn't sing all the time when I drove, but I would sometimes. Now I can practice daily, by just singing into a pillow. This is helpful for me because I rarely use by voice for anything. I rarely speak out loud. I could speak more by sending people voice messages, but I haven't gotten used to doing that yet. For now I just need to practice my singing because that's the only exercise that my voice gets.

I'm also going for a world record. I've been holding a deep squat hold for 15 minutes as I type this, and my ankles are already becoming very painful. I mean the timer shows 15 minutes, but I started holding this for probably 30 seconds before I started the timer. My previous best was 19 minutes, which I set a few days after wanting to set this record. Now I haven't been able to get close to it without stopping. I think I am stopping now. My feet are truly starting to ache. I just held it for 16 minutes according to the timer and stopped.

The world record is 2 hours, which isn't even that much. I feel like it's the easiest record in the world to beat, and something I stand a chance at beating, so that's why I am going for it. If I am truly serious about this though, I have to practice more often and for longer. I also have to lose weight, preferably 30 pounds. I weight around 200 pounds right now. It'll really ease up the pressure on my feet, ankles, and legs, if I lose weight.

Recently I started using AI to work on some projects. I purchased this unlimited subscription last year, and I only have a month of it left. I could have been using it this entire time in the last year, but I didn't start until just now. Actually there were times I used it at the end of last year and beginning of this year, but the results were really bad. For some reason, AI is so much better now. Last year it would actually come up with pretty terrible projects and just break things, but now, it's so much better and more reliable. It's really reliable now. I'm not sure what's happened, but it's a night and day difference.

I think that it is inevitable that AI replaces a lot of jobs, if it hasn't already. It's really good now at any task you give it. Last year it would break things, and I would argue in many ways a human like myself was still a better coder than them. Nowadays I think AI far surpasses human development capability.

AI was really interesting several years ago, when I asked it to give me programming challenges, and I would try to improve my programming ability by solving them. I gave it a custom layout, a style that I wanted it to give me problems in with test cases that I could run locally, and an area to write my code to test if my solution solved the problem. I thought at the time AI was extremely clever that it would keep giving me these problems in the format that I requested. Nowadays it's not shocking to me anymore that it can do that.

Now I'm using AI for different projects. I need to in order to survive. I have to behave as if AI has already replaced at work, and I have no choice but to rely on it for survival on my own. This will be really difficult but I have to truly focus on this now. I have to focus on this, and my other habits 100%. I can no longer slack off.

I was about to end the day without exercising, but I went ahead and started at around 10 PM and finished by around 11:30 PM. I didn't continuously do the exercises or they would have been done much more quickly, but I did do them spaced a few minutes apart.

Anyway, that was my day today.