Daily Schedule
Let's be up front: I don't have any strictness to any of this. I make very few plans, hold no precise hours, I barely even look at the time most of the day and just do stuff as I feel like it / it comes up.
But my normal pattern seems to be roughly:
Time | Activity |
4:30 | Wake up, stay in bed |
6:30 | Shower |
Wander down and grab a quick snack / power shake | |
7:15 | At my desk, turn on computer |
Do projects like this, writing, reading blogs, etc | |
8:30 | Start working on real client work |
13-14:00 | Natural end to working productivity. I get about 6 solid hours a day |
Shut down PC, wander downstairs, make lunch | |
Since a podcast was probably playing while lunching, finish on couch | |
15:00 | Do sudokus while on couch with podcasts |
15:30 | I'm just going to rest my eyes... |
16:30 | Wake up from nap |
Maybe more sudoku or read or something | |
Browse internet on laptop, maybe go get groceries | |
18-19:00 | Go to the gym, get groceries on way home |
19:00 | |
20:00 | This is the time I wish I had more of a hobby that wasn't computer based |
21-22:00 | Getting ready for bed and sleeping |
So I usually get about 8 hours a night OR 6-7 + nap which seems to work out similarly, although I think a 30 minute nap is worth about an hour+ of sleep.
The gym time is either in the evening before the close and it's quiet, or sometimes in the morning when it's quiet and everyone is at work. The parking gets a little tricky in the day though because the hospital itself is using it for... hospital things and there's a lot of construction in surrounding neighborhoods as they're building like crazy down there right now.
I tend to do 4-6 really good hours of work per day, and maybe a few more if it's really demanded of me, or I put off emails and non-brain work to other computer time hours in the afternoon / morning.
Doing 40 hour weeks is my version of a sprint.
I don't have an alarm clock, haven't in years - when I was a kid I had a paper route and I think that just built getting up early into me or something. I don't know why. I just wake up early, always have.
My most brain-productive hours are between 06:00 and 11:00 so of course I schedule work during those.
On the whole my afternoon / evenings are pretty breezy. I've been gearing up to do more hobby work / experimenting to have something enjoyable to do in those hours that aren't client work.
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