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My Summer Commandments 2024  ➡️  

Practice Stoicism

• Live Virtuously - Live virtuously doing what matters most and being your best possible, most noble self in alignment with your current values.
• Focus Your Energy - Focus your energy, attention, and concentration on what you can control: your thoughts, attitudes, words, actions, and reactions. Understand what is not within your control.
• Live Life Fully - Live life fully in each moment, finding joy, and expressing gratitude.
• Show Courage - Show courage by being brave and doing the right thing in difficult moral situations.
• Practice Temperance - Practice temperance with moderation and sobriety to avoid the ills excess. Do things in the right way and in the right amount.
• Build Resilience - Build resilience and adaptability by pushing yourself outside of your comfort zone.
• Do Justice - Do justice by interacting with and treating others and yourself fairly with compassion.
• Seek Practical Wisdom - Seek practical wisdom through truth and understanding to learn what is good for you. Two ears to listen completely and doubly, two eyes to see clearly and twice, two nostrils to smell the sweetness of the roses twofold, and one mouth to speak less than listening, seeing, or smelling.
  
  from: various sources

Ask Journalistic Questions

• Ask Journalistic Questions - Ask journalistic questions when observing, researching, planning, and evaluating events and issues.
• Ask Who - Ask who to identify everyone that it concerns: individuals, groups, and organizations. Who is involved? Who caused this and is most affected by it? Who benefits in the end? Who created each part and provided the most help to others?
• Ask What - Ask what to focus on the event or issue itself, its process and purpose. What is happening? What is the nature and extent of this? What are the goals and tasks? What feature is strongest and weakest?
• Ask Where - Ask where to clarify the location of the event or issue. Where did it happen or is it happening? Where is this and where else might it be? Where will we work and where will we present? Where should we present this project?
• Ask When - Ask when to establish the time frame or time sequence of events and any deadlines along with any preceding or following related time frames? When did it happen or is it happening? When did this first appear and when will it cease? When is the project due and when is each task due? When was it due and when did we complete work?
• Ask Why - Ask why to understand the underlying causes and reasons behind the event or issue. Why did it happen or is it happening? Why is this important and why does it impact our lives? Why are we doing this project and will our project stand out? Why did we choose this project and why did it turn out as it did?
• Ask How - Ask how to explore the methods or processes of the event or issue. How did it happen, or how is it happening? How is this useful now and how could it be used in the future? How will we complete the work and how will others judge our work? How did our plan work and how did the team work together?
  
  from: Asking Journalistic Questions
  https://thoughtfullearning.com/inquireHSbook/pg346

Master Your Ikigai

• Know What You Love - Know what you love being and love doing. Know the love, joys, and contentment you experience when your actions are aligned with your beliefs, your dreams, and your personality. Love being and doing else you will feel a sense of emptiness.
• Know What You Are Good At - Know what you are good at. Know where you have knowledge, talents, skills, and strengths. Get good at important matters and tasks, else you will feel a sense of uncertainty.
• Know What The World Needs - Know what the world needs. Know what the earth and human society need for its maintenance, healing, and growth. Do what the world needs, else you will feel a sense of uselessness.
• Know What You Can Be Paid For - Know what you can be paid for. Know what people and organizations are willing to pay you for your assets, knowledge, skills, time, and energy. Do what you can be paid for, otherwise you will have little money.
• Be Passionate - Be passionate by exploring, finding, and doing what you love and what you are good at.
• Find Your Missions - Find your missions that the world needs and you love doing.
• Build Your Professions - Build your professions that you are good at and can get paid for.
• Learn Your Vocations - Learn your vocations that the world needs and you can get paid for.
• Live Adventurously - Live adventurously by doing new, exciting, and challenging projects, tasks, jobs, roles, and careers. Continuously find and realign what you love and what you are good at as you gain knowledge and experience about what the world needs and what you can be paid for.
  
  from: How to Find Your Dream Career (The Easy Way) by Justin Sung
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moQnoSYPMmY

Use PERRIO Learning System Processes

1. Prime - Prime to prepare yourself to learn effectively. See, feel, and understand the new learning’s benefits and relevance. Understand how it fits in and activates prior knowledge.
2. Encode - Encode the new material actively by making sense of it and memorizing it. Group things together, simplify the information, look for analogies, make connections, and find relationships to better consume, digest, and store the information.
3. Refer - Refer to notes you’ve taken. Don’t try to consume and process all the information at once, because this will overload your brain. Rather, work on understanding the main ideas and taking notes on the specifics that you can refer back to later.
4. Retrieve - Retrieve the new material by repeatedly testing yourself to embed the information in your memory and to make recalling it easier.
5. Interleave - Interleave learning in multiple ways to strengthen your memory and deepen your understanding. Repeatedly test yourself from multiple perspectives and different angles.
6. Overlearn - Overlearn by learning more than you need to. Do practice problems and make flashcards. Overlearn to be able to recall information quickly and fluently.
   
   from: How I Built an Evidence-Based Learning System in 312 weeks by Justin Sung
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GTt10GDWII

Build And Show Confidence

• Set Boundaries - Set boundaries on the hedonic treadmill of achievements (destination obsession). Get on a path to a deeper, more meaningful destination by slowing down and taking daily bearings. Be purposeful and prioritize your daily actions to create your desired legacy. Learn the ways of long-term success from others you admire.
• Know What Needs Doing - Know what needs doing and do it (avoid failure to launch - knowing but not doing). Ask “How could I get moving?” or “What can I do to get excited and make progress?”. Then immediately do what you can do to move ahead! Use empowering language and imagery that reflects personal control and success.
• Finish What You Start - Finish what you start to stop wasting time and energy without getting anywhere (treading water). Be crystal clear about the meaningfulness and why you’re committed to getting this done.

1. Be Tall And Big - Be tall and big with shoulders back, chest out, stomach in, standing tall and straight. Keep your chin up and look straight ahead to have self-assurance.
2. Smile - Smile more to feel better, have a pleasant voice, and be seen as friendly, approachable, and composed.
3. Speak Slowly And Clearly - Speak slowly and clearly in a controlled, relaxed, composed voice. Use silent pauses and be confident.
4. Walk Briskly - Walk briskly with slightly longer and quicker strides to show you know where you are going and be seen as predominant.
5. Make Strong Eye Contact - Make strong eye contact to establish a connection that shows sincerity, self-esteem, assertiveness, and confidence. Strong eye contact is part of being more likable, attractive, attentive, trustworthy, and memorable. Eye contact and touch generate the brain’s oxytocin.
   
   from: 3 habits that kill your confidence by Shadé Zahrai
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUdiyhiyVVc
   5 Ways to Look More Confident – When You’re Struggling To by Shadé Zahrai
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgZMbTm3oxs