Another Below Deck Podcast - #310 - Januariutmaning 2026

Episode Date: January 12, 2026

Jag gjorde det för tre år sen, nu gör jag det igen. Det är dags för januariutmaningen! Jag sätter några strikta regler för mig själv i en månad för att se om jag kan bli mer produktiv och mer närvarande i vardagen. Om du är intresserad av Swedish Pro League kan du läsa mer här. Det är programmet för dig som vill ha mer struktur, community och content för dina svenskastudier.  Följ den här länken för att gå med! Transkript Tjena tjena, välkommen till Simple Swedish Podcast. Första avsnittet för 2026. Ja. Och jag kom ganska nyligen tillbaka från Sverige. Jag spenderade två veckor i Sverige för att fira jul och för att fira nyår. Och var första gången på tre år som jag firade nyår med mina vänner. För förra året och året innan, då var jag ju på Language Lock in Bootcamp. Men det har vi inte längre. Så ja, jag fick spendera nyår med mina vänner. Det var väldigt, väldigt trevligt och härligt faktiskt. Vi samlades, de närmsta, och vi åt middag. Vi gjorde några lekar. Och vi gick ut på en kulle för att titta på fyrverkerierna vid tolvslaget. Ja, tolvslaget alltså. När klockan slår tolv, alltså vid midnatt, då gick vi upp till Masthuggskyrkan i Göteborg. Och där hade vi en bra, fin utsikt över staden. Och vi kunde då kolla på fyrverkerierna och räkna ner. Tio, nio, åtta, bla bla bla bla bla bla. Gott nytt år! Så vi firade tolvslaget och det nya året där uppe på kullen vid Masthuggskyrkan i Göteborg. Ja, väldigt trevligt. Och nu är det nytt år. Och ja, jag har bestämt mig för att starta det nya året med en utmaning. En januariutmaning. Och det blir den andra januariutmaningen som jag gör. Jag gjorde en sån här januariutmaning för tre år sen. Jag pratade om den i podden också. Det är faktiskt avsnitt 166. Det kan du lyssna på också. Ja, så det ska jag prata om i det här avsnittet. Varför jag gör den här januariutmaningen. Och vad jag kommer göra. Ja, och jag hoppas att du också har haft ett trevligt nyårsfirande och ett trevligt julfirande om det är nånting som du firar. Inte alla människor firar jul. Inte alla människor firar nyår. Ja, alla gör som de vill. Men ja, jag hoppas i alla fall att du har haft en härlig start på det nya året. Innan jag börjar med att berätta lite mer om januariutmaningen, ska jag tacka några nya patrons. Roberto, Masoud, Tina, Michael, Dana, Deepak, Detlev, Pedro, Himbeersommer, Iman, Volodymyr och Konstantin. Tack till er för att ni stödjer den här podden. Yes, då ska jag börja med att säga varför jag vill göra den här januariutmaningen. Jo, så. För att läsa hela transkriptet kan du bli medlem på Simple Swedish Center - nya poddtranskript varje vecka, OCH community för bara 9€ i månaden! Klicka här!  

Siena, chena, welcome to Simple Swedish podcast. First, offsnitted for 2026. And I came quite nearly back from Sweden. I spend it two weeks in Sweden for four years. for the year and for to fire new year and it was first going on three

years that I had fired new year with my friends for the first year and the year before

then I was I was on language lock in boot camp so but that we have we not longer

so So, yeah, I I could spend their new year with my friends. It was very, very, very trevly and really, really, actually.

We, we sampled the nearest and we ate midda, we did some leaker, and we

went out on a cullet for to look at fireverkeries at 12-slaget. 12-slaget also when

clocking 12, so at mid-natt. Then we up to Masthuggs Kirkan in Yturb

and there had we a good fine out of the city and we could look on

firequeries and and I'll know 10, 9, 8 blah blah blah

blah blah good new year so we fired 12-slaget and the new year

up up on the cullen there on at the mastuggs in

Yettbor yeah very very trevly and now now is

new year and yeah I have I have bestempt me for to start the new year

with an outmonging, a January outmonging and it will the other January outmining

as I do I did an January outmoney for three years ago I talked about it in the podden

also It is actually Avsnit 166. So, that can you listen on also. Yeah, so I'm going to

in this of this ofsnit, why I do this January out of and what

I will come do. Yeah, and I hope that you also have had

a good, a good or a a trevly a threely new year's firand and a

trevite if it is something that you not all people not all people

not all people fire new year all all do you but I hopeas

in all that you have had a great start on the new

year before I begin I I'm starting with to be about about January

the time I'll thank you some new patrons it is Roberto Massoud

Tina Michael Dana Deepak Dettlev Pedro Himber Somer Imman Volodymir

and Constantine thank to you for that you stodger this podden yes then

Then, then, then I should begin with to say, okay, why will I do this January out of the

there are some, there are a little to implementer a vana, also, something you

do, every day just, without to think so much, for that it is a vana. To example, that

borsta tenders. It is a vana. You do it every day. You thinker not so much on it. But it is a vana, whole simple. So, an thing that I have a little problem with

is to stiga up in time on the moronan and to start my workday in time on the it is

it is let that I begin job at the 10 or 11 and it

is quite sent I will begin to work at

at at 9 I will I will go up on on

about about about about about about about or 8,

not the clock 9 or 10 and and even it's it's hard to just to just

for that now now now now I'm going to stop at the

time so sometimes you know you need a little extra push

so it's sometimes a lot It's a ottagant, that that you're o'ertar to do something. It means,

that you know, that you know, that you know, that you can do something, you know, you know, like,

invester in it, on a set. So, to example, I say that in January, then I'm going,

I do this and this every day and I oughter me to do this

it is an ootaganda a commitment so it can help much

with to come in in a new vana that you are extra

strict under a a a new vana. So I will maybe not not really

very, yet strict with me self, generally, in the life. I will not have many,

many, regler to follow. I also I became entrepreneur for that I

will can be free. I, I, I verderer my freehood

very high. It is important for me with free it. But it

does also that sometimes is it is difficult to control to control

to self. So it is important with vanes. It's

important that you have like right lineer. So if I

want a vana to to begin job to example at the time clock at

time then then I need to make the vanan and to like to

have an out of this month I must I start job at clock

nine at the last every day if I have the this ootagandet

under January so it it's much it's less better to continue

with it but without to be really strict so so it is a

set to start a new vanor and under an begrinsed time

are you are an extra strict for that then can be

to live life more normal and have it as a vana. Sometimes,

maybe not do it, but oftenest do you, for that it's a vana.

Okay, so. So, so are it. For, when you are an entrepreneur,

especially, then you have very much freehet, but you have also very much

answer. You have 100% answer for self. So, it is like

a, a small balance. I, I have 100% frihood but I must take 100%

answer also. So it is always a little kind of knepid. But so this is for

to be extra strict under a bit bit of a bit more so that you can be a

freeer then can say. It is also an experiment for there things that I are

newfiken on um to example what what happens if I not

not I'm not on series films YouTube social media if I just

just take it a whole monad what what happened what I'm going

I do with my time and what and what happens with the

so it is also an interesting experiment that I will do. So

this will be my regler so to say so I can

I can I don't look on film serier or

YouTube I not be on Instagram or other social

social media, for out of, like, to give people to WhatsApp and and I should not

listen to know, I'm not either just say after information that's not important

just now. So it is all distractions so it will no distractions and an other thing

that I should do is to not drink alcohol I drinker not much alcohol but I will end to see if it if it happens

something with the body and healthan when you drinker no alcohol so it is also an experiment Then I'm going to stig up at 0.5.8.

All the vardagardagardar and begin job at 9. Wara in a sink, the last time 10. These are, like, unifairly. I'm not surely.

I'm not sure. I'm not sure. but but quite stricty train five days in week on

some set and do you and do all activities just about that's if I

trainar so not listen on music or pod if I eat

not do not another something but all things should be an activity and this is for to be more

near-varend in the day-drawn to be that you're not you're here and now you have

his focus here and now you can't not on the front-tiden and the forflutna

and planet and you can't not on a mass other things all the time it's clear you're not you know

you must think about other things but it's also important to be near-vara

so I will be more near-varend so this is something that I will

implementer for to be more near-vare- so it is also something that I will see if it works

then I start using Pomodoro method when I job Pomodoro method is that you know, you know, 25 minutes

and then take a pause in five minutes and beforeut so I thinked I that I am

not so interesteded of Pomodora method for that I gillar to just job, job,

job, in two three times till I get a and I have no paus

but I I probed the Pomodora method and I understood that there there is

an other further with it and that that all all

all all allt all all you have block. You have

block of 25 minutes and it is very good for to

to try to be clear with an upgift

so okay I have an upgift can I can I be

clear with it on 25 minutes so it

is it very that I have the 25 minutes to do this 25 minutes to do this upgift, or maybe two blocks. So 25 plus 25, or half-tim.

One timbre, an timbre, so I have 25 minutes, pulse, and then 25 minutes again, maybe. It will lesser to planer and visualiser their work and I

merced that it was it was a good for me, it was a for me I have

been with it already and an another fordel with the pomodora

method are the pausern for one thing that I have inset

also is important is to take paus but to take

trotical pauses. Also pauses where you don't go and laces newhets or call Instagram or for if I do a dopamine

intensive activity under pausen then, then it's more to focuser on jobet then. It will be

is more than to motivate me for job then. But if I take a trotig paus

I'll take five minutes and just sitting and and I'm and look in in

in the and just thinker or mediterer or do anything then then

comes job to be a to be more motiverander so So I have

started to use Pomodora method and take trotia pauses. Pauser without

stimulants, no stimulation. And that it does that it be less and more motiverating

to work. Interesting. So it is my things that I should do my

rules and my rigeliner. And intentions with this is to be more near-warned to be more

productive and to and to mow better mentally. For I think that if I are

more near-varrant if I have minor distractions then I'm also more better mentally

but we can see I'm going to I should outvared this in the end of

the month to out of it means that you know that you look at

and you look at result it you and you putterer it

and you do an out an an analysis can you say so

yeah yeah it is that was that. A part

things that is important for to be to be

at that is that you have an an

clear intention with this that this is something

that really and that that you have also

also the rules and if if if if you

have just the rules so so, so it

not it's so motivator but if you're not not

any reason and it is a matter if it actually is

so it can be more to follow but yeah I

I want I really really have mass regler

under a time so it should be interesting it also

It's important to be realistic, also, not set for-svore regler for self, or set for-svore mowl,

so that it be too-svort and it, you must, like, to know, you know, okay, this can I do, not just

this week, but next week, and next week, also. But yeah, I hopeas it goes good good, I'd ask me to look to see how this

go. Tell you guys if you have a January outmary outmning or some intention for 2026. I have also

sat some intentions for the year. That I've talked on in tidigar that I have

intentions for the new year instead for the new year. So, yeah, I have

some other other that related to this we have the first January

outmining it is the ofs 166 then we have we

the of my dopamine detox And it is something likenative that you minimer

distractions and stimulants so that you have more motivation to do a little more more more than dopamine detoxen

is number 108 and so have we an offsnit on dopamine also 104 And then, and then, inan we

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