[📝] Today Was #158: Crossroads and Inner Maturity

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A day when I looked back on what kind of choice inner maturity demands at a crossroads.

• Original: http://blog.naver.com/hyeogikarp/223962165588
• Naver published at: 2025/08/07 11:45 KST
• Original category: Today’s proof

Original

🗓️ Date: 2025.8.6 Wed

Goals: 0/0

To-dos: 3/3

Habits: 3/3

Bets: 2

🔂-🎯 Goal Management Routine System

Lifetime Goals

• [Life RPG]

• 🎯 Reach more than 1 million monthly active users (MAU)

Goals for 2025

• [Life RPG] (liferpg.online)

• 🎯 Temporary roadmap (not final): develop at least five built-in apps (modules) for the Life RPG platform

• 🎯 2025.08

  iD Note

• A gamification app that stores academy/PT lesson records and lets users gain experience and level up through attendance checks, homework, and more

• 🎯 2025.09

  Oharu (Today Was)

• A daily-life gamification app with an internal social feature for setting today’s goals and sharing completion status with friends

• 🎯 2025.10

  Pianolic

• A music gamification app for managing piano practice records and collecting practiced pieces and albums

• 🎯 2025.11

  Running Party

• A running gamification app that tracks running records and offers running matching with nearby users

• 🎯 2025.12

  Auto Vibe

• An education gamification app that gathers tips and lessons on automation tools and vibe coding and suggests learning guidelines for each user’s goal

• 🎯 2026.01

  Open the Life Store

• Officially open the Life Store, the platform’s core. Users can buy app access rights in the store, and developers can register new apps.

• 🎯 2026.02

  Apply for the Preliminary Startup Package

• Apply for the government-supported Preliminary Startup Package to validate business potential and secure support for platform growth and stable operation.

• [iD Note]

• 🎯 Build a B2B model as SaaS (admin/teacher-centered update)

• 🎯 Register on the App Store / Play Store

• 🎯 Add B2C elements to the B2B model: integrated data management across all lesson organizations (student-centered update)

• [Health]

• 🎯 Lose 10 kg (85 kg -> 75 kg)

August Goals

• [Life RPG] (liferpg.online)

• 🎯 Draft the Life RPG plan

• 🎯 Think through platform-related business and revenue models

• 🎯 Consider a B2B pivot

• 🎯 Market research: planning document, included apps, business and revenue models, … (+ AI)

• 🎯 Validate core hypotheses: collect materials on the effectiveness of gamification

• 🎯 Survey

• 🎯 Organize the content in Notion Workspace

• [iD Note]

• 🎯 Build a B2B model as SaaS (admin/teacher-centered update)

• 🎯 Register on the App Store / Play Store

• [Health]

• 🎯 Lose 2.5 kg (84.5 kg -> 82.0 kg)

Goals for the First Week of August

• [Life RPG] (liferpg.online)

• None

• [iD Diary]

• 🎯 Optimize mobile UI

• 🎯 Stabilize the organization management system

• [Health]

• 🎯 Lose 0.5 kg (84.5 kg -> 84.0 kg)

Today’s Goals (⚠️ Required)

• None

🔂-📌 To-do Management Routine System

Today’s To-dos (⚠️ Required)

• ✅ Observe a work-report meeting

• ✅ Observe two Wishket meetings

• ✅ Church video shoot and meeting

🔂-♾️ Habit Management Routine System

Today’s Habits

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

• I am open to various possibilities and listen carefully to various opinions.

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

• Grateful to everyone who approaches me with goodwill and gives me many pieces of advice and proposals.

• ✅ Routine: Check today’s goals / to-dos / habits

🔂-💸 Bet Management Routine System

Ongoing Bets (⚠️ Required)

• ~2025.8.9

  💸 Penalty: none

• Reach 84.0 kg body weight

• 2025.8.3: 85.3

• 2025.8.4: 85.7

• 2025.8.5: 85.5

• 2025.8.6: 85.0

• 🏆 Success reward: recover the prepaid 50,000 won

• ~2025.8.15

  💸 Penalty: 50,000 won

• Convert iD Diary from an organization-specific service into a SaaS service

• Submit for App Store / Play Store review

• 🏆 Success reward: Magikarp figure

🤔 Brief Reflection

Recently, many people have approached me with goodwill and offered various advice and proposals.

I thank all of them once again.

(And I especially thank the associate pastor who unintentionally ended up in charge of saying the hard things.)

But no matter how sweet all that advice and all those proposals are, I need to recognize reality clearly.

Especially when I face this kind of crossroads, I must not forget that I am the foolish person who used to rush into irreversible choices with strong impulsiveness and lack of restraint, only to regret them painfully later.

What kind of person I was, what path I have walked,

what kind of person I am now, what path I am walking now,

what kind of person I want to become, and what path I want to walk going forward.

Looking at the past shows patterns; looking at the present shows points for improvement; looking at the future shows the destination ahead.

I need to synthesize the past, present, and future before making a choice. And the subject making that choice must be ‘me (my conscience).’

(That is, as a Christian, the Lord, the highest conscience within me, must be the subject making the choice.)

The time has passed for living dependent on parents, mentors, and acquaintances with a childish mindset like vaguely saying, ‘I want to try starting a business!’, ‘I want to gain various experiences!’, … ‘I want to try this!’

That weak spirit of trying to depend on others gnaws away at me, and even gnaws away at others.

If there is someone I should rely on, that someone should only be the Lord (the highest conscience within me).

Only through time alone, fiercely agonizing until my head feels like it will burst, crying, shouting, meditating, and praying, can I reach inner maturity. This is not the kind of maturity achieved by putting on all kinds of shows in the name of networking with others.

What I need most is that inner maturity. In other words, I need to escape the child’s mindset.

There is a path suited to each person, and a proper time for each person.

Only when my inner self matures can I move toward ‘my path’ with courage, without hesitation, at any time.

Of course, the process of that maturity, the process of moving down that path, may feel like hell right now.

But I am certain. That hellish hardship will lead me to heaven in this life. (And if heaven in the next life comes as a 1+1 too, thanks.)