Luc Andre Ippersiel

Before starting this experiment, it’s good to know what you’re testing against. This experiment will be testing against health, finances, knowledge

• For health, an easy data set to test is body weight, mesurements, flexibility, and jog distance.
  I haven’t mesured myself yet (task tonight), however the baseline weight is 187.7lbs and flexibility is trying to touch my toes and get past my knees by 5 inches. As for jog distance, will be setting that baseline tomorrow morning.
• For studying, doing some pre-tests will determine my current knowledge prior to doing some studying. Then redo the test and see the improvement in test scores.
• For finances, this will be a little hard to test considering a fluncuation in the market, winter setting in, and the x-mas holidays looming. However I will compare financial spending from Day 1 to 90 to “normal” expenditures to see results.
• For home, simply completing home renovations willl move things forward, however I will create an inventory of my personal affects and compare the list afterwards.
• For time management (and the whole experiment) I am recording all this data in several moleskine like notebooks. I can then graft the results after the 90 days.

Once the 90 days have passed, I will enter all the data into spreadsheets and generate results. If there are other data values I determine later I will update this blog post.

Going to do something crazy here and try a little experiment on myself. Nothing life threatening or to the likes, but something many may call radical and something many may call just being normal.

I’m going to test to see what happens to myself if I follow the below plan. The experiment will be for 90 days as an initial recorded timeline.

So what changes will I have to follow? Let’s list them out:

• Wake at 5:00 am for workout and prep
• Work without distraction
• Eat nothing but healthy vegan food (no chips, nada)
• Eat nothing but home made meals (no eat out/take-out)
• Drink my 8 cups of water a day (this includes tea)
• Workout everyday (in one form or another)
• Study in the evenings (no TV, no video games)
• Go to bed at 10:00 pm
• Weekends focus on home tasks (chores and reno)

I’ll blog about the results (mostly) every day, noting things like mood and progress.

Why am I doing this “experiment”? Primarily to hold myself accountable for doing what I want to do

What are the results I expect to see come out of this? These are a few items:

• Weight loss, increased stamina, increased flexibility, increased sense of being
• Increased knowledge in technology and general knowledge
• Richer finances
• Better time management
• Happier home (e.g. Completed home projects, organized home)

With this experiment I know there will be some times when I can’t fully follow the plan. Tomorrow night I have a x-mas party to attend, so the meal is out of my control. I can however, avoid over consumption of food and beverages. Also, one can only study so much and will require a mental break. This will be when I frolic Azeroth a little, for as we learned from The Shining “all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy”

So here is to day 1