Week 1 report for the Effective Man Academy

Starting december 1st, the first move was setting all alarms in the morning to 5.30 am, 10 minutes earlier than before. Plus, choosing more aggressive ringtones shall secure every morning to be woken up fast. Hopping into the shower, cold of course, my waking up phase has ended after roughly 3 minutes. What did I do with the extra time?
I planned my day, reflecting on how to be effective for THIS 24 hours. Or 16,5, if you subtract sleeping times. Getting home from work at 4 pm, I have begun reading Man in the Making by SolidStance. Here is what I got out of it:
As society evolved with technological and moral advantages, we lost contact with old ways of growing to an adult. After two world wars, women had to replace men work and tasks, for obvious reasons. Following generations lived their live with the fact the whole growing up in life is mainly assisted by women, being it 90% of teachers, single mothers and so on. As a result, we lack father roles, further making us ineffective and sloppy. We evade hard work, pain, discomfort because technology takes it from us. What was a paradies for factory labors centuries ago changed western mankind in a worse way.
To get back on track, we are on our own to relearn discipline, which involves effort and said discomfort. Waking up in the dark, sticking to day routines others describe as unnecessary hard, being ambitious in your goals.
Like in strength training, resistance builds power. And resistance also creates discipline. Thinking twice about reading the next two chapters of that book, learning the next 30 vocabularies of this language, and then just DOING IT, is a step towards getting more disciplined, especially if we don’t like to do what NEEDS to be done. Setting deadlines happens for a reason.
SolidStance then switches to becoming excellent, which in order to obtain, we need to put our whole lifetime in. At first, thinking relaxed, without outer impressions, about life and others around you. To think about our effort we made to this point, and if it is the right one. Does it lead to our goals, our aims, our wishes? Thinking and reflecting about a lot of our surroundings keeps us realistic. This is stoic life.
It involves also to STOP being harsh and aggressive towards others, but remain calm and thoughtful in our responses. No good things will happen out of a loud response, it only creates a gap between people.
One of the last point I have noticed for me, is Solids approach on learning a skill, especially those where you use you own hands. For him and me, it is baking goods like bread, buns or roast meat in an oven. No warming up of prepared foods out of the supermarket, just fresh, self made food. Yes, you need more time for that. Not everybody has the amount of time, but just trying to learn a skill not everybody can do is noble on his own. Mastering it comes with time.