It's been a very slow transition for me to get back into being productive, and I'm still wasting too much time in the day to get any work done. I've finally cut down on obsessively playing VR this month reducing it from around 28 hours a week to around 8 hours a week. I've gotten back into Ring Fit Adventure into my weekly routine so that I get a more balanced workout. I do Ring Fit Adventure on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays for muscle training and harder cardio workout. I play VR on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays for back/sides stretching, arm/shoulder training, and squat repetition with light cardio workout. And then I try to relax on Sundays to give my body a break.
Having gotten a more normal workout routine in place, I then focused on reducing my time on doing dailies for Genshin Impact and Phantasy Star Online 2. I stopped doing anything that required resin (stamina points) in Genshin Impact which reduced my gameplay time of 1-1.5 hours down to 10-15 minutes as I only focused on daily quests. For Phantasy Star Online 2, I stopped doing dailies if the mission pass didn't have rewards I wanted out of them and have tried to progress story missions instead. I am spending less time on both games daily as a result, but they still take up a lot of time during the weekends when I decide to do a little more. With more time saved up in the day, I wanted to be more productive.
During my time playing VR, there were a few times I played VR Chat and tried to practice speaking Japanese and ended up meeting people from all over the world who were also learning Japanese and/or other languages. I've always been interested in learning other languages but never made a real effort to try. Early March, news made its way to me of Moses McCormick's (also known as 老鼠 - lǎoshǔ 'Mouse') passing. He was a polyglot Youtuber who spoke 20 different languages and I liked watching him connect with so many different people by speaking their native languages. It was sad to hear of his passing. Watching some of his old videos and then transitioning to watching a few other polyglot youtubers, I finally decided that I wanted to learn some different languages. I knew learning a new language was going to be difficult and that I would likely forget everything I learned if I don't use it, but I fancied the idea of learning just a handful of words and phrases for each of the languages I was interested in. Besides learning some words, I also wanted to learn how to read and write in Korean and Russian because I realized that despite rarely ever writing or speaking Japanese, I read and hear it a lot which has helped me practice and learn a little on my own. In the past year, I noticed I understood more words in the animé I watched than I used to and that I was learning new words along the way. So I've been trying to expose myself to more stuff in Chinese and French, hoping to learn more. And since Korean and Russian use a completely different alphabet system, I figured I could learn more if I learned how to read and write the alphabet for them. So for the past 2 weeks, I've started preparing myself to learn the very basics of: Chinese, Japanese, Korean, French, Spanish, Russian, German, and Italian. I don't know how far I'll go with learning any of these, but I hope I can improve Chinese, Japanese and French the most.
My main focus this past month has been practicing Electric Guitar and learn a particular song. I've been making "okay" progress, but I would like to learn faster as I still have a lot planned this year and I'm getting nothing done. I still feel a bit lost in when it comes to my long term goals as I can't see them coming to fruition any time soon and have no idea how to reach there anymore. But my short term goals are clear and exciting, so I have no hesitation striving to better myself with them.
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