20th of February – If I get this new role, it’s because of my Hitler joke
via YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2cgIU9XhYU
📅 20th of February – If I Get This New Role, It’s Because of My Hitler Joke
🌅 Early Morning & Forgetting Essentials
⏰ Time Check: 5:09 AM – Running slightly late, and as always, I forgot something. Today, it was my watch, which was still on charge at home. Yesterday, it was my cologne. At this rate, I half-expected to forget my pants tomorrow.
🎯 Mindfulness Check:
- 🙏 Grateful for: Not being attached to material things.
- 👍 Compliment to Myself: Left 10 minutes earlier than yesterday, giving me extra reading time before work.
- 🎯 Key Focus for Today: Nail my Emergency Response Team interview.
💡 Mindset Shift: I realized I’m okay without my watch because my phone does the same job. It was refreshing to see I’m not overly dependent on gadgets.
🚨 Emergency Response Team Interview
🎯 Main Goal for Today: Crush the Emergency Response Team interview and hopefully secure a spot.
🔑 Key Moments:
- 💬 Introduced myself with a joke about not having a filter.
- 😅 Made a Hitler joke while explaining good leadership – risky move, but it landed well.
- 😄 Positive Vibes: The interviewer had a great sense of humor, and I felt completely myself throughout.
- 🤞 Reality Check: There are twice as many applicants as spots, so it’s a 50/50 chance.
🔥 Biggest Takeaway: I’m comfortable being myself at this new workplace. It feels great to make crude jokes and not worry about offending anyone. I’ve found a place where I can just be me.
🥗 Skipping Meals & Recharging
I didn’t pack my lunchbox today because I:
- 🍖 Ate a ton of food yesterday, including two BBQs at work.
- ⚖️ Wanted to fast today as a form of calorie balance.
- 🏃 Planned to skip my run tonight to get more sleep and hit the gym early tomorrow.
🥤 What I Actually Did:
- ❌ Failed at fasting – got hungry around midday and ended up having:
- 🥤 Protein shakes I keep in the car.
- 🥖 Bread rolls I found at work.
💡 Reflection: I’m not beating myself up for breaking the fast because my food choices were clean—mainly protein and minimal carbs.
📚 Learning & Self-Reflection
🎧 Podcast of the Day:
🎧 Tim Ferriss Show – Episode 792 with Seth Godin on Playing the Right Game & Strategy as a Superpower.
- 💡 Biggest takeaway: “If you keep making excuses, you’ll never do it.”
📚 Reading:
- 📖 Managed to read for 11 minutes and 24 seconds before work.
- 🙏 Grateful for the habit of bringing my book every day.
- 📈 Didn’t hit my target, but some progress is better than none.
👕 Unexpected Win – Free Jacket
During my Emergency Response Team interview, I ended up in a building I’d never been to before.
- 🧥 Cool Colombian guy asked if I wanted a free jacket that belonged to someone who no longer worked there.
- 🤣 He joked, “Do you want to be Troy?” and I played along.
- 🎁 New jacket unlocked—but I’m unstitching the name and considering replacing it with something funny like “Taty-Chan” or “Zus.”
🔥 Takeaway: Sometimes, the small unexpected wins are the best part of the day.
📊 XP Tracking & Progress Update
📌 Total XP Progress (Feb 20 Update):
- ✅ Gym: 27.36 hours (Iron Novice Rank 1 confirmed).
- ✅ Guitar: 9.34 hours (Ahead of reading XP).
- ✅ Reading: 8.02 hours (Closing in on Apprentice Scholar Rank 1).
- ✅ Running: 29.42KM (No new distance today, but tracking consistency).
💡 Takeaway: Even on rest days, I’m still making progress by tracking habits and learning new things.
🔥 Final Thoughts
💡 Biggest Wins Today:
- ✅ Crushed the interview while being 100% myself.
- ✅ Maintained my reading habit despite a busy schedule.
- ✅ Free jacket + fun at work = Positive vibes.
“You’re enough. You’ve got this. Keep moving forward and crushing those goals!” 🚀
