21h • Daily Journal 📓
📘 Journal Day 59 — Dec 8 – Dec 9
⏰ Sleep Log
- Sleep: 12:30 AM
- Wake: 1:00 PM
- Total Sleep: 12.5 hours
🎯 Goals
1-Week Goals
- 20 Upwork projects → 8 done, 12 remaining
- 3 dummy bids daily (21 total)
- 1 hour daily client communication learning
- Create a proper workspace
- Fix sleep schedule
- Read 10 pages daily + share lessons
2-Week Goals
- Receive feedback on dummy bids and improve what's missing
- Start sending 1 proposal daily on Upwork
- Get approval for my dummy bids
1-Month Goals
- Get my first client from Upwork
- Secure $1000 worth of work before the end of 2025
- Start creating book summaries for community members
🕒 Time Log
1:00 PM to 1:30 PM
In bed.
Still waking up slowly.
😴🛏️🌫️
1:30 PM to 3:30 PM
Getting fresh, brushing, saltwater gargling, drank warm water, went to roof for sunlight, cleaned room, Zuhr prayer.
Stayed anchored to the routine.
✨🌞🕌
3:30 PM to 5:00 PM
Working on creating a meal and diet plan for my weight goals, watching videos for meal prep on YouTube, Asr prayer.
Productive and learning mode.
📚🍽️🎯
5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
First meal (3 egg omelette + one and a half paratha), Omega 3, watching a YouTube video, took a short nap.
Fueled up and recharged.
🍳😊💤
7:00 PM to 9:30 PM
Back to work, writing and publishing articles.
Focused and getting things done.
✍️💻🔥
9:30 PM to 10:20 PM
Out for some house errands, family time.
Needed the break, felt refreshed.
🏠❤️🚶
10:20 PM to 12:00 AM
Back to work, publishing articles, outsourcing some of the work.
Grinding through the tasks.
📝💪✅
12:00 AM to 12:15 AM
Writing journal and checking off things from to-do list.
Feeling organised and on track.
📓✔️🌟
12:15 AM to 3:35 AM
Writing thoughts and journaling, food (vegetable rice + raita), watched YouTube with food, creating project on Upwork, designing thumbnail, listening to Formula of Rizq first lecture, Isha prayer, warmed and drank milk, updating journal.
Long productive session, covered a lot.
🍚🎨🕌
💪 Workout Routine
No workout today (resting shoulder injury for recovery).
🏆 Today's Wins
- Stayed anchored to morning routine despite late wake-up
- Created meal and diet plan for weight goals
- Completed 90% of delayed SEO Clerk project
- Published multiple articles
- Created 1 project on Upwork
- Designed thumbnail
- Identified the 20% tasks for 80% results (proposal writing, loom proposals, portfolio building)
- Wrote journal after missing a day
- Listened to Formula of Rizq lecture
🙏 Prayer Log
Fajr – ❌
Zuhr – ✅
Asr – ✅
Maghrib – ✅
Isha – ✅
🪞 Reflection
Alhamdulillah, today the day went really well. It was one of the most productive days after so many days. I have been wasting so much time from the past few days, and I'm really upset and sad about it. I don't know my direction right now. I don't know what to do. I'm stuck in this phase, and I'm just letting it pass. I'm not forcing myself. I am anchored to my morning routine, but I don't know why I'm so distracted and couldn't get any work done. But I'm praying to get back on track quickly.
So today, I decided to do one of the main tasks that I have been neglecting for so many days. The order that I got from SEO Clerk, I have been delaying it. So today I decided to complete it no matter what. I put it on my agenda and worked on it for the whole day. And Alhamdulillah, it's almost complete, like 90% done.
I also had an agenda for creating two projects on Upwork. I couldn't create two, but I created one project. I also did research on what's the 20% of things that I need to do to get 80% of the results. So I have shortlisted three things. Number one is learning proposal writing because that's the most important right now. Number two is creating loom proposals. And number three is adding portfolio and projects to my profile daily. Journaling is part of my daily routine.
Although I haven't uploaded a journal from 2 days, I wrote one on one day, but the other day I didn't write at all. But today I'm writing again to maintain consistency. It's okay if there are some bad days. Those come and go. And it's not the first time this has happened. I have taken long breaks from journals and work before too. It's almost like 60 days of writing journals, like 2 months, maybe 2.5 months on this journey. But I have missed a lot of consecutive days. So missing only one or two days of journal is not a big loss. Writing a journal again, I think it's a win, and I'm not leaving it at all.
I am not continuing my workout as well because I have pain in my shoulder, and Inshallah I'll recover from that too. I also realized that it must be my mistake that I got this pain and pulled the muscle. I analyzed my routine through Claude and asked if I'm doing something wrong. So I got to know that I'm undereating and training like an athlete. My protein and calories are not up to the mark. Although I have been gaining weight and muscles from the past 3 months, I have gained a lot of weight and muscle. I look better than before. But still, my diet was really low according to my training and workout.
So I have decided to cut down my workout and focus on increasing my diet. I have also created a meal plan today, a meal and diet plan that I will follow, Inshallah. I also found out that maybe the reason for the pain and the muscle I pulled is the inconsistent sleep patterns that did not let my muscles grow and repair properly. And although I was not taking any break in the week, I worked out regularly, and that was one mistake too.
So these days are not wasted. These days are full of reflection and learning from mistakes. So that's a win for sure. The days that I was not working on my financial side, I was overthinking. But that helped too. I have to see the positive side of it. That helped me understand what I was doing wrong, and I'll fix this. I'll fix my sleep schedule, get good sleep, get the required amount of nutrition, work out properly, and recover properly.
So I'm looking forward to the best days of my life ahead. And I'm, Inshallah, going to maintain my consistency and learn and grow. I'm not weak. I'm not going to give up that easy. I'm calm. I'm confident. I'm capable. God has given me everything, and I ask for more strength from Allah, to get over this phase as well. And Inshallah, I'll get through this too. Alhamdulillah for everything.
🌱 Lesson of the Day
Bad days are not wasted days if you use them for reflection and learning. Identifying mistakes and fixing them is progress. Rest, recovery, and proper nutrition are just as important as hard work.
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