❣️Here, I share with you the latest insights and what I am currently working on based on the 5 Health No-Brainers each month.

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🧩 QUOTE OF THE MONTH

“The secret of life is to waste time in ways that you like.”

— Jerry Seinfeld

MY 🖐️5 HEALTH NO-Brainers:

◈1-NUTRITION:

• Initially got back into gyming, and thus, stocked on plenty of proteins (milk and eggs) BUT then I got DEAD SICK: gastroenteritis leading to nausea both while hungry and if I eat any portion of anything
• Everything I’ve been eating regularly in the past 2 months now repulses me (total bummer and had to throw away a lot of things)
• SUCH a contrast but maybe my body is telling me to try different foods for now…and struggling to replace processed comfort food cravings with REAL food…

◈2-MOVEMENT:

• Turns out I didn’t quite enjoy the extra cardio in the makeshift gym/self-defense class I mentioned in the last NOW update…(why? I just know as a fact that strength training gives me better ROI on afterburn effect and already protects bone health vs. plain cardio that is mostly for endurance and I’ve done my several-laps-long running back in my premed, 1st and 2nd yr of med school yrs…)
• Signed up to the 2nd gym I’ve tried in all this final year and it is my preferred one, though it only opens weekdays and between 4-8 PM (reasonable).
• I’ve been sickish and so far only did a 2x/first week and 1x/second week gym sesh (since I was ill), so aiming to go for 3x/week gradually…

◈3-REST/SLEEP:

• REALLY BAD. The worst I had was about two days ago…zero sleep and oddly ended up with a REALLY COOL IDEA for another animated series (the cartoonist, digital artist within me is pestering me again)
• My hypothesis is obviously the recent sick episode, eating after 9PM PLUS darned mosquitos ruining the sleep conditions
• Going to be do my best to make deliberate changes as this is currently my greatest struggle amongst the health no-brainers…

◈4-PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT:

Self

• Started rereading and taking notes from the book Storyworthy by Matthew Dicks again (I can’t believe I lost my digital notes…but my HDD organization is certainly not the best…I’m so miffed I need to create the AI that properly cleans up like a digital Marie Kondo)
• Lately struggling to know what’s best for my future after med school…and will be deeply reflect from Justin Welsh’s guide: Building a $15M Business Without Destroying Your Life and Jay Yang’s latest newsletter questions (going to have a field day with these):
  – What does rich mean to you? What does success mean to you. What does a good life mean to you? What net worth is enough? How do you define a good family? What values do you live by? Who do you want your life partner to be? What kind of parent do you want to be? How do you want to spend your days? How do you want to show up for your friends and family?
• Going to make deliberate hard decisions aligned with who I want to become and the lifestyle design that resonates and energizes me the most (as an inspiration I went back to reviewing even Derek Sivers’ personality and lifestyle, who I stickily respect.

business

• In the end I never did the book coach/agent nor substack sprint thing. Priorities and timing but I did end up setting up and consistently posting on substack recently.
• It was a HUGE BUMMER that one of my sales calls was a no-show…could have really helped them bring better impact to their mission…but making sure not to fall into “one-itis” as one of my coaches used to advise (aka don’t get stuck on the one failure/prospect, there are many more opportunities out there)
• I can’t believe my Linkedin post regarding my angiology rotation epiphany…ended up being featured on Hemostasis Today (talk about becoming a nutrition thought leader coming along little by little!)
• My #1 priority is to land at least 1 paying client before the next NOW update and I hope I don’t get bogged down by distractions (writing here at my NOW page truly does allow me to face myself!)

Academics

• My final rotation in General Surgery is now about 2 weeks to completion (so 2 more tough on-calls to endure…) and we just got our final State exam dates…and I’m laughing on the inside…(I’m the LAST one to be evaluated which means my solitude post-exam will be much more likely…and I just might ask the number one question to see what they would answer)
• I’ve followed through with infrequent outings but truthfully I’ve been quite academically exhausted and rather “bored”. Not doing so great on the consistently studying end, but doing my best to prepare for the couple of key weekly evaluations we have.
• My other fellow countrymate interns are already planning a cram school program even after the final State exam: yippee…but I hope to tag along for the sake of hanging out with them (I rarely do and it’s just too bad…)
• There’s a LOT to review and it looks like I’ll be winging it (literally)

◈5-INTERPERSONAL DEVELOPMENT:

Online

• Recently joined a new Whatsapp grpchat with other ghostwriters like me and enjoy that it’s far more active, resonating and positively FOMO-motivating.
• Doing my best with making more genuine connections on Linkedin especially and can’t believe this simple post got so much engagement.
• The minimum I do each day is still some Linkedin (gotta run the biz) and ⏱️ 6-seconds in Surgery: sharing short 6-second moments of reframe or reminder of the human condition and incredible lessons each day counting down to the end of my final of finals rotation: General Surgery.
• I’m impressed by the boldness of this new femme founder I came across, known as the “lesbianbezos“; first found on Linkedin and I’m glad cool people like her exist. Just check out her WEBSITE! wow…
• Continuing this more intentionally since I am bullish on these relationships being 10x more important to my personal and professional growth than the irl ones (sorry, not sorree….)

In-person

• I’m beginning to accept the ugly truth that the people nearest in physical proximity and by current circumstances just do not elevate me at all and this has been a downer for the most of this final year of med school
• My new on-call group is ok, but I still don’t find much genuine connection (never have) and that’s ok…I’ve recently looked back at personalities like Derek Sivers and know I’m not the only one.
• I’m becoming more accepting of who I am and what I can tolerate/would invest my time in more deliberately now. If it means not wasting time on frivolous surface relationships, so be it.

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This NOW page was inspired by Derek Sivers’ awesome project: nownownow.com

The NOW page responds to the question, “What are you currently doing?” and details what someone is focused on at this moment in their life.

This is my NOWNOWNOW page: here.

 || updated 14/06/26 ||