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10-Minute Warning CLXIV

Hi. What can I write here under 10 minutes?

For the past 3 weeks, I have been sleeping for more than 8 hours and I still wake up later than usual. I’m grateful that my sleep is good, but it goes to the point that I wake up almost before lunchtime, and I could have spent the extra hours doing productive things instead of sleeping more. As medical experts would say, 8 hours of sleep is ideal. And I’m not really a morning person, but to help in the family business and be more productive overall, I need to practice waking up earlier again.

So, tonight, I’m doing my nightly routine earlier so I can sleep better and earlier and eventually wake up refreshed, energized, and, well, earlier. I’m almost finished with my nightly routine as I type this post, so I feel accomplished already. I hope I will get used to this change of habit in 3 weeks. Good luck to me.

Have a great week, everyone!

This post’s header image is made by Adobe Photoshop 2025’s Generative Fill. Just testing this AI function for now.

XIX: Second Week of February 2025 (So Far)

Hello. Sorry for the lack of updates again. So, for a change, I will avoid making another Minute Warning post, and I will try to sum up what happened so far from February 10, 2025 to today, February 16, 2025.

XVIII: Full Circle II (The Diary’s 2nd Anniversary)

2 years ago yesterday, I published my first post here on The Diary. And looking back at those 2 years… oh, man, I have been through a lot.

In my first year of blogging on The Diary, I promised myself to publish 13 posts per month and I will blog every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Thankfully, I reached my post goals and schedule mainly because of my Minute Warning series (where I write anything under time pressure under 10 to 30 minutes). And if I were to publish a longer post, I have a writing process that works. You can check my first-year retrospective on this post.

And today, in my second year of blogging at The Diary, I’m looking back and checking if my writing processes still work and if my blogging schedule still serves me well.