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. The Practice What You Preach series keeps me accountable to this principle.     

Streaks

Streaks are probably the most direct measure of the superpower of consistency. All my seven streaks are still in good shape:

• Good days. According to the methodology outlined here, I’ve now had 397 consecutive good days. 
• Morning routine. My morning routine has stood strong for the past 184 days.
• Music practice. I’ve managed to work in a little bit of music for the past 157 days straight.  
• Supermorning. This blog has now seen 107 consistent posts.
• Healthy days. It’s now been 3932 days since the last time I was sick. More about this 10-year journey can be found here.  
• Days at ideal weight. Still going strong at 203 days. 
• Highly productive months. It’s now been five 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’ve recently started 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.

October was one of those rare months with sizable gains in both stocks and metals. These gains easily outpaced my living expenditures, causing a nice jump in financial resilience (number of years my wealth can sustain my lifestyle). I wish every month could be like this one 🙂

Savings towards my research fund have thus far only reached 9% of my €100000 target. Long way to go…

Productivity

October got off to a good start, but a surprisingly large number of social events late in the month caused a bit of a slowdown towards the end. It was fun though, so no worries 🙂

Even so, I reached 225 very productive hours (creative work on my PC) and an additional 108 productive hours (meetings, exercise, reading and music).

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). 

In general, my long-term productivity trends are still moving in the right direction.

So, October will go down as another solid month. Now for the gloomiest month of the year: November. It will also kick off with some work travels that I’m not particularly looking forward to.  

In other words, the next 30 days not be plain sailing, which makes it a good test for the principles on this blog. It will be interesting to see what the numbers say in 5 weeks’ time…