[📝] Today Was #122: Too Much Ambition and the Importance of Starting Small

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A day when I confirmed that the more my ambition overheats, the more important a small start is.

• Original: http://blog.naver.com/hyeogikarp/223918905625
• Naver published at: 2025/07/02 10:06 KST
• Original category: Today’s Verification

Original

🗓️ Date: 2025.7.1 Tue

Goals: 1/2

Tasks: 1/1

Habits: 5/5

🔂-🎯 Goal Management Routine System

Lifetime Goals

• [Life RPG]

• 🎯 Reach more than 10 million monthly active users (MAU)

Goals for 2025

• [Life RPG]

• 🎯 Apply for the Preliminary Startup Package with Life RPG (2026.02)

• Plan platform-related business ideas

• Gather materials on the effectiveness of gamification

• 🎯 Develop at least five MVP apps (modules) to put on the Life RPG platform

• 🎯 Oharu (Today Was)

• Today’s goal, SNS, …

• 🎯 Pianolic

• Piano performance history, pieces and album collection, …

• 🎯 Running Party

• Running history, running matching, …

• [Gurumiya]

• 🎯 Monetize the app

• [Health]

• 🎯 Lose 10 kg (85kg → 75kg)

Goals for July

• [Life RPG]

• 🎯 Draft the Life RPG proposal

• 🎯 Open Google Workspace for materials storage

• 🎯 Open business email: hyeogikarp@liferpg.online

• 🎯 Open Notion Workspace for document storage

• 🎯 Open a Discord channel for communication and notes

• 🎯 Open the liferpg.online website

• 🎯 Deploy the Oharu (Today Was) app (web/app)

• 🎯 Today’s goal calendar

• 🎯 Simple SNS feature (Friend)

• [Gurumiya]

• 🎯 Make it actually usable

• [Health]

• 🎯 Lose 5kg (85kg → 80kg)

Goals for the Fifth Week of June

• [Life RPG]

• 🎯 Open Notion Workspace

• 🎯 Categorize

• 🎯 Brainstorming (collect fragments of ideas)

• 🎯 Draft the Life RPG proposal

• 🎯 Gemini 2.5 Pro + Skywork.ai

• [Gurumiya]

• 🎯 Complete CRUD features

• [Health]

• 🎯 Lose 1.5kg (85kg → 83.5kg)

Today’s Goal

• ❌ Draft the Life RPG proposal

• I was overwhelmed by a storm of ideas that was far too huge.

• Starting tomorrow, I should organize the tasks step by step, have AI organize them, and use AI to generate things from them.

• ✅ Buy domains: company, platform

• Finished purchasing and extending the iruri.today and liferpg.online domains on hosting.kr

🔂-📌 Task Management Routine System

Today’s Tasks (each failure costs -1,000 won)

• ✅ Church - upload July prayer topics

• Upload completed

🔂-♾️ Habit Management Routine System

Today’s Habits

• ✅ Strength: at least one strength I discovered in myself today

• Prefer to systematically record and store records.

• Thanks to the records related to Life RPG recorded 4 years ago, I will be able to start preparing easily.

• When I record things, I do not just drop them somewhere at random; I systematically sort them into categories first.

• ✅ Gratitude: at least one thing I was grateful for today

• I am grateful to my past self who worked hard and recorded it for my future self.

• I am grateful to the precious person who was truly moved by my small gift and even touched me.

• ❌ Exercise: at least 10 minutes of cardio/strength training

• Not leaving the house

• ❌ Meals: daily intake under 1,800 kcal

• Binge eating due to stress

• ✅ Routine: check today’s goal / tasks / habits

🤔 Brief reflection

Because I was too motivated, I just sat down and couldn’t do anything.

I spent today in such an empty way.

I think it’s a habitual problem that arises because I have a lot of experience avoiding and postponing situations like this.

What should we do to solve this in the future…?

First of all, the most important thing when these overly large and complex ideas are swirling around like a storm is to let go of the compulsion to completely and neatly understand and organize the countless thoughts.

This is because my excessive desire to control that huge storm on my own as quickly as possible is the biggest cause of my helplessness.

Let go of your obsession with perfection and continue brainstorming, capturing each word, sentence, or concept that comes to mind most clearly and writing it down.

Before considering meaning or context, let’s bring out the raw fragments. That alone can help you break out of the pattern of being overwhelmed and helpless.

And the fragments of thoughts recorded in this way become ‘objective data’ that can be analyzed later.

If I feed all that data into AI and look at the organized result, I will be able to see the path I need to take much more easily at a glance.

In the end, the most important point is this: ‘small start.’

If I try to start everything too big, it leads to excessive motivation and eventually I collapse like today.

Let’s not spend tomorrow in vain like today.