🌿 Weekly Review - 2025-04-27

✅ Highlights

• Realized LinkedIn outreach was yielding 3x more leads than expected, leading to 5 meetings booked.

• Completed a Developer Quiz and aced it, affirming skills and preparation.

❌ Lowlights

• Diet slipped, leading to lower energy and mood.

• No gym sessions completed during the week.

• Previous week’s goals not achieved, resulting in feeling deflated and frustrated.

🎯 Alignment Check

• Deep work time was present (focused research, idea exploration), but lacked productive outcomes like publishing or concrete improvements.

• Emotional state was noticeably less energized compared to the previous week.

• Overall alignment: Partial — actions were adjacent to goals (research, learning) but didn’t move key priorities forward.

🌱 Sprout Log

Date	Task/Goal	Duration	Outcome	Focus (1–5)
2025-04-20	Planned AI blog series	3–4 hrs	Concept draft; received critical feedback from housemate	3
2025-04-20	Worked on C# questions + dictionary blog post	2–3 hrs	Draft created; no publication yet	4

📊 Metrics

• Deep Work Hours: ~15 hours

• Distractions Logged: High (lots of doomscrolling)

• Rituals Completed: None

• Physical Activity: None

• Sleep Quality: Better than last week (around “Okay” to “Good”)

🧠 Insight of the Week

• Emerging realization: Uncertainty about whether working for a Japanese company aligns with personal goals, values, or lifestyle preferences.

🔁 Observer Feedback Loop

• Rituals to Reintroduce:

  • Gym sessions (physical activity)

  • Healthier eating patterns

• Goal Adjustment:

  • Recommit to focused, outcome-driven work over purely exploratory research.

📌 Next Week Priorities

• Return to gym + improve diet (Value: Health, Energy)

• Focus on producing tangible work outputs (Value: Progress, Mastery)

• Move forward with decision-making about career direction (Value: Alignment, Autonomy)