One of the founding principles of this blog is that I can only share ideas and strategies that have proven to yield great results in my own life. Hence, the results of implementing these ideas will be shared on the first Saturday of each month. 

Streaks

We start with the most direct measure of the superpower of consistency I can think of: streaks. As outlined earlier, I track four streaks. And I’m happy to report that all four are still alive:

• Good days. According to the methodology outlined here, I’ve now had 341 consecutive good days! Less than one month to go before I reach a whole year without a single bad or average day 🙂 
• Morning routine. My morning routine has stood strong for the past 128 days.
• Music practice. Yesterday, I reached the milestone of practicing a bit of music for 100 days straight.  
• Supermorning. This blog has now seen 62 consistent posts.

From the health and productivity data below, there are three more streaks to track:

• Healthy days. It’s now been 3876 days since the last time I was sick. More about this 10-year journey can be found here.  
• Days at ideal weight. Although there have been a few close calls, this streak is now 147 days old. 
• Highly productive months. This little streak of spending more than 200 hours per month on creative work on my PC is just three months old.

Health

My mission to stay at my ideal weight, defined as a smart BMI of 34/70, is tracked below. The thick line is the 3-month average of my weight. This line needs to stay within the dotted orange lines. I should get it a little closer to the center of the range, but so far, so good…

Next, my metabolic and biological ages (defined earlier) have not changed. 

Wealth

As discussed earlier, I’m conducting an interesting financial experiment: living only off my investments and saving all my income into a dedicated research fund. 

My investment portfolio for covering my living expenses is tracked below. August was an interesting month with a substantial drop in stocks, compensated by a sharp rise in precious metals.

As a whole, my investments went up just enough to cover my living expenses. The result is that my financial resilience (number of years my wealth can sustain my lifestyle) did not change much. 

Savings towards my research fund have thus far only reached 5% of my €100000 target. Long way to go…

Productivity

August was a good month in terms of productive hours. Overall, I reached 235 highly productive hours (creative work on my PC) and 122 productive hours (meetings, exercise, reading and music). With 8 hours of sleep per night, that’s a full 72% of my waking time spent on productive endeavors 🙂

The trends are still going in the right direction:

So, overall, August was a good month. The principles covered on this blog held strong even as Norway returned from holiday and the regular ups and downs of office life resumed. 

Let’s see what September brings…