🌿 Weekly Review

⏪ Previous Week’s Focus (from 2025-04-12)

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✅ Highlights

Shared a meaningful Sunday dinner with Deanne — connection felt important and grounding.
Finished and deployed the portfolio website exactly as envisioned — a clear milestone and source of pride.
Wrote down personal North Star — a clarifying step toward long-term alignment and purpose.

🚫 Lowlights

Frustration while programming with Claude — Oru progress slower than expected, creating friction.
Overemphasis on work led to neglect of diet and physical activity.
Stayed up working on Oru until 3am on Saturday night — disrupted sleep cycle and affected next day’s rhythm and energy.

🎯 Alignment Check

Mission alignment: Yes — deeper clarity emerged this week, especially after defining North Star.
Deep work protection: Many sessions achieved, though some were marked by resistance and resulting frustration.
Feeling states: Predominantly intent and focused; entered deep flow states, though occasionally strained by obstacles.

🌱 Sprout Log

Date	Task/Goal	Duration	Outcome	Focus (1-5)
2025-04-18	Building template shortcut (Oru)	6 hrs	Not successful, but significant learning	4
2025-04-20	Building data visualization site	6 hrs	Limited progress, caused frustration	4

📊 Metrics

Deep Work Hours: ~30 hours
Distractions Logged: ~100 instances
Rituals Completed: Not currently tracked
Physical Activity: Light
Sleep Quality: Disrupted

🧠 Insight of the Week

Helping others achieve their purpose may be the clearest expression of my own. That belief felt like a guiding realization this week.

🔁 Observer Feedback Loop

Ritual Adjustments: Recommit to structured diet and increase cardio + gym sessions.
Goal Update: Add explicit focus on generating income — this needs to become a tracked and visible objective.
Backlog: No changes noted this week.

📌 Next Week Priorities

Get Oru MVP functional — Value: Independence, Contribution
Recommit to diet and exercise — Value: Health, Discipline
Advance Sprout to track weekly review inputs — Value: Clarity, Sustainability
Build system for remote first Jobs
Build system for resume tool
Make interview GPT!