August 17, 2011 Update as of 4:22pm GMT +8

I got a print screen shot of my paypal earnings as of 4:53pm August 17, 2011. I was tempted to sell my paypal funds and get cash right away but I am going to wait until I reach $100 or $200 to save on the transaction fee of selling my paypal funds and convert them to cash.

Here is my August 17, 2011 update in my journey to raise 1 million pesos in 1 year.

1. August 14, 2011 – paid husband his salary of 1,000php

2. August 14, 2011 – electricity bill arrived due this month is 5,481.61php, previous month is 5,653.33php, bill is 2 months overdue

3. August 16, 2011 – paid Mr. E with $10, debt is now $90

4. August 17, 2011 – planning to pay Mrs. G for her salary of 570php out of 1,118php thru eon


I have observed that I am not close to earning my first 5,000php and have it as savings. I need to raise at least 25,000php before the week ends as of the moment it is too far to happen.

Here is something that I have observed in myself. I love wasting time and sometimes it leads me to be unproductive. Yesterday, I have read two important tips and hopefully this would help me out to increase my productivity.

First is the 30/30. It means I work 30 minutes and do something else for another 30 minutes.

I will give this a twist, it will be 60/15. Yes, that would be 60 minutes work and 15 minutes play time. Since I can finish up around 3-4 articles worth 400-500 words in 60mins. Rest for 15 minutes and work again.

Second is the biphasic sleep. It’s like take a nap during the day or night and sleep for a certain number of hours. Rinse and repeat. One suggested having a 1 ½ hours nap time and 4 ½ hours sleep time. This would be a total of 6 hours sleeping time.

I decided to try this today and see how it goes. I will start off to take a nap around 9pm and wake around 11:30pm. Then, work and sleep around 4:00am-8:30am sleep time.

As of the moment I am creating an order slip for my clients' orders which I will use as my guide to today’s work. It is like what you see in restaurants as they take your orders and jot them down. I will apply the 60/15 and see what happens.

My biggest mistake I have ever done for the past months is that I was so focused on earning big without looking at my productivity. Now my equation is increase in productivity, increase in earnings.

Run down on what I am going to apply for today:


For productivity:

Order slip = list the name of the clients with their corresponding orders to keep me track for work today

60/15 = 60 minutes for work and 15 minutes play time

For sleep:

1.5/4.5 = 1.5 hours nap time and 4.5 hours sleep time (9:00pm-11:30pm nap time, 4:00am-8:30am sleep time)

Till next update...