All the tips and strategies shared on this blog are fully implemented in my own life. This is a fascinating experiment, the results of which are shared in the monthly Practice What You Preach series.   

Streaks

Streaks are probably the most direct measure of the superpower of consistency. All my seven streaks are still alive and well:

• Good days. According to the methodology outlined here, I’ve now had 472 consecutive good days.  
• Morning routine. My morning routine has stood strong for the past 259 days.
• Music practice. After a recent stumble, this streak is back up to 62 days.  
• Supermorning. This blog has now seen 163 consistent posts.
• Healthy days. It’s now been a full 4008 days since the last time I was sick.  
• Days at ideal weight. Still going strong at 278 days. 
• Highly productive months. It’s now been eight consecutive months with 200+ hours of creative work on my PC.

Health

I’m determined to stay at my ideal weight, defined as a smart BMI of 34/70, for the rest of my life. To do this, I must simply keep the thick blue line between the dotted orange lines. Easy 🙂

Next, my metabolic and biological ages (defined earlier) are still nice and low. 

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. A moderate gain in stocks cancelled out my living expenses, causing a small increase in financial resilience (number of years my wealth can sustain my lifestyle). 

Savings towards my research fund have thus far only reached 15% of my €100000 target. Long way to go…

Productivity

December did not start so great, but finished strong. In total, I reached 242 very productive hours (creative work on my PC) and an additional 114 productive hours (meetings, exercise, reading and music). Thus, fully 72% of my waking hours were productive in December. 

In the RescueTime graph below, the dark blue areas represent very productive time, the lightly blue areas productive time, and the red areas distracting time (e.g. YouTube).

I’m happy to report that the downward trend in my very productive time over the past five months has been broken in December. 

Overall, December proved to be a fitting end to a very interesting decade. I wonder what the next decade has in store…