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Why you should always choose to front load the work

April 5, 2024 by Paris Leave a Comment

white airplane with smoke under blue sky

YouTube suggested a video to me called “How Successful People Achieve Multiple Goals” by James Lim

it’s the concept of front-loading the work for any project or thing you’re doing as much as you can while using airplanes as a metaphor of sorts. At the start of a project or idea or goal, it takes a lot of energy to get the concept off of the ground. And as the project goes on, you would spend less energy managing it.

You just, you know, if you had to put in like 10 hours or 100 hours to get it started, you might have to put in 30 minutes every week to keep it going.

I do that with my job projects, creative projects, and everything else. I realize I’ve been doing that naturally my whole life, like with my workouts.

The YouTube video is 8 minutes and 32 seconds

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I chose a bodyweight-based workout plan, which is the ATHLEAN XERO workout.

Each week I do the assigned workout and if I fail the Saturday challenge, I write down my completion time plan to do it again next week. On Monday, I load up the same workout plan I failed and write down Round 2 to denote this is my second attempt through.

This continues until I pass the challenge and move on the next week of the 6-week program.

Instead of constantly switching up workout plans, I stay the course and work the plan. It takes a lot of energy up front and it took me weeks to pass some of the weekly challenges. And then I stick to the plan, stick to the course until I complete the entire workout program.

Once that was set up, I started adding other relevant health changes. Like I added more cardio in addition to walking every day, I’m running every day as well. So it’s a morning workout (before work), walk, run, you know, now I’m working on sleep, managing my diet.

All of these changes were done slowly over time and I constantly adjust what is and isn’t working for me.

In this brief example, you can see that I am changing like 5 facets health which is a struggle for most people, but I ended up making it a habit that becomes part of my normal day to day routine.

The biggest benefit for me is that in addition to building consistency is that this method actually promotes systems level thinking which I am a big believer in.

Using YouTube videos as an another example, I am constantly putting out daily gameplay shorts from whatever games I played the week prior. The biggest time saving feature here was building out the template file that I use in DaVinci Resolve and the gameplay recording software (Nvidia ShadowPlay) to ensure that I am capturing the footage I need quickly with minimal setup.

Hopefully this helps you out and get some ideas flowing.

A short from my YouTube channel

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The Wisdom of Keeping Your Eye on the Ball

July 17, 2019 by Paris Leave a Comment

The Wisdom of Keeping Your Eye on the Ball by Paris D Hunter

“Keep your eye on the ball.”

This common phrase was repeated often throughout my life. Regardless of what form the ball takes (soccer ball, baseball, basketball, etc), it was important to keep my eye on the ball. I have been thinking about this for the past couple of days as part of self reflection.
 
The real wisdom hidden in the message. 

Wisdom that I clearly forgot over the last few years. 

This wisdom was lost on my younger self. 

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New Year’s Resolutions 2019

February 16, 2019 by Paris Leave a Comment

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I spent the last few days revisiting the opportunities and challenges I faced in 2018, I realized I need to do something different for my New Year’s Resolution this year.

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The Power of Bullshit

January 1, 2019 by Paris Leave a Comment

Thanos Reality Stone Power of Bullshit

I have been doing a bit of self reflection over the last few month’s and I came to the stunning realization of the Power of Bullshit.

The bigger realization is that I have been using the Power of Bullshit without fully realizing it.

Allow me to explain what the Power of Bullshit means to me.

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Story Telling & Technology: A Dove Ad Taken Out of Context

October 16, 2017 by Paris Leave a Comment

Photo by Aliis Sinisalu on Unsplash

Story Telling Through Technology

Around early October 2017, Twitter was on fire in regards to an apparently racist Dove ad that someone saw on their Facebook feed. Here is the ad that popped up multiple times in my Twitter feed:

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