Abundance

Alhamdulillah today I got to do the most essential part of business analyst. Requirement gathering and designing. The documentations, consolidation, note taking etc have been successfully handed over to others. I'm happy. Yes. Essentialist in the motion. But other part of my life, I'm still struggling to keep being an essentialist. Always had to remind myself, hold myself, stricting myself from not being non essentialist. It's hard works. But alhamdulillah, I'm still fighting. For better cause. 

Alhamdulillah, I realized today. Planning just won't cut it. It the task deadline are still far, I realized that the work never done as planned. Always being pushed to last minute. This is the parkinson's law in play. I thinks I have to change the tactic. I've done exploring, I've done removing the 'noise' and left with most essentials. But.. I didn't plan details enough to ensure smooth execution. I have to plan in details. Until the last steps. All dependencies, obstacles etc must be addressed. Then start to execute and see the plan in motions. Like a clockwork. In another word, till the last drop. 

Alhamdulillah, it's been a good weekend in melaka. Cik Anah n family came. Also pcik azai, n Mcik Nora's family. Alhamdulillah, we chose to come back on Sunday's night. It was jammed. But not too bad. Alhamdulillah, this morning I am free for a meeting n worksyop. Time to do whatever I have planned n also might be able to plan for my Ess fe and be as well.  Alhamdulillah the orion proj so far so good. Hope it continues like this until the end.  Alhamdulillah, fe n be still manageable even though lately I have neglected it. Now it's time to think, how to manage these as effortless as possible. Please help me Ya Allah. 

Alhamdulillah, for two days I am on essential eating. I just ate and drink what are essentials for me. No more indulging things without thinking. I felt it much easier. Because instead of thinking what to eat, what to avoid, what to control, I just focus on essentials. I ate modestly, drink modestly and take no snacks, sweet drinks etc coz I don't think it's essential.  Alhamdulillah, I also cleaned up non essentials app on my phone. Not just that, I also cancelled 2 subscriptions. On my works I do the same. Only focus on the most essential works on hand. So far everything works wonderful for me.  Alhamdulillah with essentialist mindset, I also become more honest in saying no. No more say yes to everything. Now I am thinking before agree to anything.  Alhamdulillah, I have conducted a good workshop today. All data presented were the essentials data n in essentials format.  Alhamdulillah esok cuti. Time to enjoy the break. 

Alhamdulillah, today's presentation are the smoothest so far. It is due to I have done the work much earlier. No I could see the benefits of Essentialism. Alhamdulillah, after today's workshop, I got to ate lunch at my mom's house. Then afterwards, I got just one more meeting.  Alhamdulillah after the meeting I am able to take a nap. I really need it coz of headache.  Alhamdulillah after a nap, the aircon man came and serviced the aircond. Alhamdulillah the work was good and fast.  Alhamdulillah, I and my wife have finished the puzzle. Great. A good day so far. 

Alhamdulillah today I really got a nice rest. We just sat at home, relaxing. I complete the puzzle and my wife playing game on ps4. Alhamdulillah, the weather was so cold. It was raining all day. I've got one the best afternoon nap. Alhamdulillah I am thinking a lot of Essentialism. Hopefully I can execute it with ease this coming weeks. 

Alhamdulillah, I've got a lot of sleep last night. More or less 8 hours of sleep. I can feel that my body have been recharged fully. Alhamdulillah, met my old friend from my ex company today. We sent him a cake that he ordered last night. He noticed that I am getting fatter than before. Haha.  Alhamdulillah, today I and my family got to spend some time together at mitsui. I felt happy today. Not just that, my sister also came together with her husband n son. We spent time together eating, talking. The children also were happy playing together.  Alhamdulillah. I think despite my feeling about essentialist not so good yesterday, today I think it's a bit different. I think about it a lot. Just maybe because I am still learning an adjusting. So that's why I felt overwhelmed. 

Alhamdulillah I am able to be bit brutal on my decision. I have cancelled the progress meeting today and only have it updated via email. Something that helped me to get rid of nonessential meeting. Alhamdulillah I also able to be calm eventhough Zana quite upset on us because we are unable to help them providing a template for further requirements. Coz I know, I have done my best for the past weeks.  Alhamdulillah, I also become a bit brutal by not agreeing to the meeting tmrw. I think it will be more essential for me to have half a day to focus on things that are more important.  Alhamdulillah. 

It's getting harder. Hard to maintain focus to be an essentialist. Alhamdulillah I am still hang on for it. Hopefully tomorrow will be better. 

Seems like essentialism are slipping through my finger. This blog are acting as a journal. N essentialist are the one who keeps a journal. Because it is essential for future reference. Alhamdulillah, this weeks had turn out to be a free and easy weeks. I've planned out my task and turn out I can complete it in two days. But the good things is, I no longer feel that I'm preoccupied with other nonessential things. Alhamdulillah I got a lot of free time this week. Hopefully, I will be able to find and plan the remaining days with essential things. Plus I'm enjoying the free time as well. 

Alhamdulillah, it's been a great weekend. I can feel that the essentialism in practice in most of my actions already. A bit by bit. InsyaAllah, hopefully I can be a true essentialist soon.  I am not jumping to act immediately if I feel I want to do anything. I will take a bit of steps back, and think and process of what I want to do. As always, I try to remove any inessential items and any obstacles so that I can execute my plan smoothly. Alhamdulillah. I want to sleep early tonight. To get a fresh start tmrw. Hopefully, I can sleep well. Uninterrupted.  Amiin. 

Alhamdulillah, today is the last day of the week. What a hectic week for me. Even though with all the planning, it still nerves wrecking to navigate the tasks daily. Alhamdulillah, somehow I felt more accomplished than ever. True, no matter how much you've plan, things are tend to go side ways. That's why buffer are very important. It's hard to avoid ad hoc requests. But then, it's ad hoc because it has become urgent. Alhamdulillah, I have learnt a lot by doing careful n detail planning. With the smoothness in mind as goal, I can see there is still a room for improvement. 2 ad hoc thing that actually can be manageable if I had prepared earlier. First, the question from audit. It will be much easier if I had summary of man days tracking. Lucky that have been done by fan Seng. So not much issue there. Second, the jpn data. It will not be an ad hoc if I had take note of the deadline of data submission. I would have prepared earlier and things should not be a problem. Lucki...

Alhamdulillah, I have completed the data to be sent to JPN tmrw. Hopefully everything will be fine. Alhamdulillah, today I received my first so called luxury watch. It is a Seiko 5. I love it. My first automatic watch. The looks is nice, the feel is nice everything is nice.  Alhamdulillah as well coz I am able to have lunch with my buddies. It's been a while. The food at mahbub never dissapoint me. The briyani n chicken masala are superb.  Things are much better today than yesterday. I noticed that night after 10 pm is the best time for me to do work. I can do my thing peacefully without any distraction. I need to try recreate the same condition in the day time.  Thinking.. 

Alhamdulillah, I managed to provide the feedback on ams for the fe the night before. Alhamdulillah, fan Seng had it compiled. If not, it will cost me lot of time to prepare it. This helps me a lot on Wednesday by not messing up with other tasks that I have to do on Wednesday. I've got a lot of things went on. Meeting, went out for chores n tired coz of not enough sleep. These have lead me to become unfocus. I barely does anything on my to do list that I was planned on Monday. Alhamdulillah, at 9 pm I managed to clear one of the most important task.  Alhamdulillah thanks to this chaos, I found out I have to plan better. Not just listing down what to do on that day but also on that particular hour. Of coz, with 50% buffer. Let's see how it goes starting next week. 

Alhamdulillah, even though I felt a bit tired, I think I am very productive today. Still have 2 things pending to settle. Thanks to the planning yesterday, the job can be lump together with tomorrow's tasks. Alhamdulillah, I managed to push myself to finish the work that might jeopardise my plan tomorrow onwards. So, I don't have to feel stressed about it. Everything is about clearing the obstacles.  Alhamdulillah, my mother got her glasses today. Hopefully she likes it.  Also alhamdulillah coz today I am able to spend sometime with my wife went out for lunch. I'm busy. But not just busy, but really productive kind of busy. I chose to do things that gave me more value over some trivial things.  Alhamdulillah, hopefully eventually I can cut on the busy side and manage my time properly. Need to think hard how to manage ad hoc requests. Notable achievement on essentialism for these couple of days are cutting off my hair to be very very short so I don't have to worry about ...

It was not a typical Monday today. Things are different now. I want to practice essentialism every single day. To move closer, being an essentialist. Alhamdulillah, I started my morning not looking at the email but rather plan out my day. Usually I planned daily at most. But today I have plan for the whole week.  I was not just planning it high level. But in detail. The goal is to complete my tasks as smooth as possible. I planned each and every steps everyday until the day I complete the task. Alhamdulillah, even though it took about almost one day, but I'm glad everything had planned out accordingly. I hope I am persistent enough to follow what I have planned. Moreover, one of the goal of creating a plan is to remove any obstacles during plan execution.  Alhamdulillah, this can be done due to most of the peoples still on leave. So not much people are bothering me.  Alhamdulillah, I have cleared all task that I need to do today. My wardrobe also relatively empty due to I...

Alhamdulillah. I'm grateful to complete the book of Essentialism. Now, I can understand the 80 20 laws of vital few in different point of view. It was a great book. Hopefully I can start become an essentialist slowly day by day. This is my first step towards it. Writing a journal. But with a slight twists. A gratitude journal.  Alhamdulillah we've got back after spend few days in Malacca for Raya haji. It was good. To unwind. Lots of things to handle. But from now on, I'll handle it in essentialist's ways.  Alhamdulillah, I found the best auto workshop for my car in Tampin. With simple diagnosis, the mechanic knows what is the problem with the loud sound coming from my car when I went faster. It was actually the steering bearing. Alhamdulillah as well coz I can do my car service as well at the same place. Next I plan to fix the timing belt issue.