Daily 5 Minute Journal August 5, 2017

Juggling

I juggled last night at Bryant Park. Did some club passing with Joe and we did pretty well, a woman who is 49.  Talked with Alice, Iggy.  Asked Jeff if he wanted to pass but he said "no."  Worked on 5 balls, 4 balls, clubs. I juggled clubs around 180 tosses. Taught 2 kids but they were impatient and couldn't do it.   There was another guy who was learning that I tried to help and some uncoordinated guy who needs to practice.

Weight

Still struggling to get below 160. I did it once but I'm wondering if it was a scale issue. Weighed myself a number of times yesterday and got many different numbers, but I'll use 161.4 here is my latest chart. 

Goals

My goals continue to elude me. I'm trying to come up with goals for August 2017 and for the year 2017.  I do have a book http://MyGoals.87sc.com.

I was shocked at the number of sheets I had on goals in time-monitor.

1. Goals at work
2. Actions to goals
3. Three Goals Three Tasks
4. Action to goal
5. Year by Year Goals
6. Daily Goals
7. Goal Analysis
8. Monthly Goals2
9. Commitment not Goal
10. Goal Sheet - Zig Ziglar
11. Health goal of the month
12. Goal Qs
13. 10 Life Goals
14. Goal Analysis2
15. Goals at home and work
16. Monthly Goals
17. Goals
18. Goal Questions
19. Book to Goal
20. PURGE of Goals

This needs to be organized better.

It might be time to really work on STS (Smart Task Selection). I found a way to track my location via an IP address at http://ipinfo.io.

Twitter

I'm getting more people liking my stuff on twitter. I've changed my name on twitter to Al Berg from Alec Berg. as to not be mistaken for the writer by the same name from Seinfeld.

I've created a list of my tweets on twitter organized which is called 69 Pieces of My Twitter Wisdom.

I've had a couple of tweets that got more followers and I'm up to 72,783.



Popular Tweet Stats

Here is link https://t.co/XycAsM8zfC

— Al Berg 🇺🇸 (@alecberg) August 2, 2017

On average, Black women in this country make only 63 cents relative to every dollar white men are paid. #BlackWomensEqualPay

— Kamala Harris (@SenKamalaHarris) July 31, 2017

@ScottAdamsSays head buried in newspaper pretending like he doesn't know this crazy chick (me) pic.twitter.com/MT5JYOlzbD

— Kristina Basham (@kristina_basham) July 29, 2017

I'm working on getting my first book published on Kindle.

You can view it at https://t.co/pOrkwtxJJi#Diet #WeightLoss #Health #Excel pic.twitter.com/3JKobwMYX7

— Al Berg 🇺🇸 (@alecberg) July 12, 2017

Work

This week at work I've started completing the automation of my software to create PowerPoint slides. This is pretty cool, that I can set a command and have it run on a server in Excel. Though some work is still needed as it's not good at say asking "Are you alive?" and getting back a response, yet. Also, the process can get busy running something. Also, I have to deal with msgbox's and how to handle errors that occur.

I didn't get it to run my data verification process. Have also started on the idea of having a process that help do manual and automated tasks.

Most tasks have components of both automation and manual steps. I'm trying to find a way to better manage this process. For example, the data verification will run on two files looking for issues with the data. If it finds them a person must look at the data and create an event that will allow the automated process to continue.

I recently finished my mid-year review and I don't think I'm doing as well as I'd like. My new boss has pointed out that I'm the only one that knows VBA more than once. This is definately a risk I need to mitigate.

One way to mitigate this is to make the process so easy and useful that the value of VBA skills is seen as useful.

Books/Writing

I continue to work on books but this has stagnated a little bit. I need to do some more proof reading and then getting the book to Kindle. I'm not sure I like the way I write as it's missing something. The books are all available for free on-line write now. If you go to http://w2fo.com/showlist2.asp?parent=49304.

I also need to work on my book covers.

Books I'm Reading

I'm reading a book called The Like Switch  that well I like.  I've also downloaded too many free books from Kindle.

Time Tracking

This once and always is a problem I'd like to solve as I have to track and enter my time at work. I'd like to be able to answer some very basic question on how I spent my time and analyze if it was spent wisely.

• What did I work on?
• How much time?
• What problems did I have?
• What is wasting my time (meetings)?
• Where could I be more productive
• How is time broken down by report?
• How is time broken down by part of process
• Automating
• Research
• Testing
• Documenting
• Following procedures
• Support

Daily 5 Minute Journal - September 10, 2016

911

Day before Sep. 11th.  15 years ago wow.  I knew 2 people who where killed in the World Trade Center. They were both at a meeting at the restaurant Windows of The World.

My wife and I were lucky that she didn't work there at the time but 5 years prior worked on the floor in the north tower where one of the planes hit.

Job Interview

I have another interview on Monday with a Managing Director at my company. Fortunately it's a phone interview which is easier for many reasons. This weekend I'd like to prepare for the interview.

New Diet

I came up with a new diet which I call the stair or maybe step diet. The basics of the diet are:

1. Weigh yourself each day
2. Try to lose one pound in the weight from start that is dropping the decimal place
1. If I weight 168.4 then if I weigh 167.8 I've reached my goal
3. When you reach your goal feel free to eat foods you normally wouldn't eat to lose weight
4. Once I get above the weight loss try to get to the next weight 1 pound less
1. if I weigh 166.8, 166.6, 166.4, 166.2 or less I've reached the goal and can eat what I want
5. Repeat until you reach your goal weight.

Some examples

start weight 170.2 goal to weigh 169.8 or less

Eat moderately and try to get to 169.8 or less

If you reach 169.8 or less eat what you want

Your next weigh in might be 170.4 and your new goal is 168.8 or less.

Eat moderately and do what you have to get to the 168.8 or less level.

Keep repeating this process until you reach your goal weight.

Daily 5 Minute Journal - September 10, 2016

911

Day before Sep. 11th.  15 years ago wow.  I knew 2 people who where killed in the World Trade Center. They were both at a meeting at the restaurant Windows of The World.

My wife and I were lucky that she didn't work there at the time but 5 years prior worked on the floor in the north tower where one of the planes hit.

Job Interview

I have another interview on Monday with a Managing Director at my company. Fortunately it's a phone interview which is easier for many reasons. This weekend I'd like to prepare for the interview.

New Diet

I came up with a new diet which I call the stair or maybe step diet. The basics of the diet are:

1. Weigh yourself each day
2. Try to lose one pound in the weight from start that is dropping the decimal place
1. If I weight 168.4 then if I weigh 167.8 I've reached my goal
3. When you reach your goal feel free to eat foods you normally wouldn't eat to lose weight
4. Once I get above the weight loss try to get to the next weight 1 pound less
1. if I weigh 166.8, 166.6, 166.4, 166.2 or less I've reached the goal and can eat what I want
5. Repeat until you reach your goal weight.

Some examples

start weight 170.2 goal to weigh 169.8 or less

Eat moderately and try to get to 169.8 or less

If you reach 169.8 or less eat what you want

Your next weigh in might be 170.4 and your new goal is 168.8 or less.

Eat moderately and do what you have to get to the 168.8 or less level.

Keep repeating this process until you reach your goal weight.

Daily 5 minute Journal: Dec. 22, 2015

Woke up at 10:15 and weighed myself at 164.6. I'm below 165 but not near my goal of W<160. Went to Cheescake Factory for dinner to celebrate by son getting into Buffalo University and other son getting 3.88 average at Cornell for his first semester last night.

Have pain in right thumb, I'm thinking from juggling weighted balls.

The weather is mild but raining on Long Island.

Made my Bulletproof Coffee and it's the last day of my vacation.  I'm angry over my phone which rebooted 3 more times last night, my blood sugar was high last night (measured at 152 probably higher) after eating Nachos, Avocado Egg rolls, 1/2 California Cheesesteak and about 8 french fries, I skipped the steak.


I need batteries for my blood sugar machine.

I'm also trying to figure out what plug I need for my exercise bike. I thought I found a plug that worked but it didn't. The Lifecycle isn't marked with a serial number except on the transformer.

I contacted my doctor on Friday morning and she hasn't gotten back to me yet.

I've been reading and watching a lot of Sam Harris and watched a few Robert Spencer from JihadWatch.org videos.

I updated my book Wisdom of a Dad on the internet in pdf form.

December is running out and my goal for the month lower my blood sugar hasn't been reached. My goal for November 2015 was to declutter and I'm no where near finished.

Yesterday, I finally looked into code that helps you control a website and used it to retrieve the due date of my library books.

Search on "vba CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application")" and you should find examples.