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What is your default schedule to maximize your efficiency on a typical day? Do you have any tricks or a particular mindset you put yourself in at different times for different ends?
My Basic Daily Schedule:
1) Writing
2) Work on freelance projects (for immediate income and skill building)
3) Managing affairs (emails, phone calls, etc)
4) Work on my start-up (for potential income and skill building)
5) Reading
6) more writing
7) workout (lifting, swimming, yoga, etc.)
8) diversion -- producing music, more writing, more reading, going out, or staying in with a girl friend.
On the transition points between these activities I often will be changing locations and may dally a bit in populated areas (like campus or certain streets) to meet cool new people (mostly girls
).
Some basic things I focus on:
1) Get up with the sun -- it makes the days feel longer (especially in winter) and when I don't get up I feel like I'm starting already behind schedule.
2) Writing for a decided amount of time with a minimum word count.
3) Deadlines for personal projects -- this can be difficult, but if I tell a bunch of people when my deadline is I'm sure to put more of an effort in meeting it.
4) If I notice that I am just coping instead of creating I will, if justifiable, end that activity and go do something creative and engaging instead.
5) When I think about my friends with children or the ones with 9-5 jobs that they don't like I push myself harder, knowing that this selfish (not in a bad sense) part of my life will end and a sense of duty/extra-personal responsibility will probably take over, judging by what happens to most men.
6) Don't put certain activities on a pedestal. Don't overthink. Remember, the art of something is the habit of doing it, not the knowledge of how to do it. You can only solve a practical problem with action.
7) Avoid time vacuums like surfing the web and Imaginative Literature.
8) Be excited about what I am doing. A lot of the times I have to remind myself why I am doing a certain activity, remind myself of its end, to get excited about it.
9) Trust in my intuition. Not everything needs to be consciously decided and analyzed.
I'm curious to see how other people organize their typical day -- I think this question could lead to some cool insights.
Cheers,
Oskar
My Basic Daily Schedule:
1) Writing
2) Work on freelance projects (for immediate income and skill building)
3) Managing affairs (emails, phone calls, etc)
4) Work on my start-up (for potential income and skill building)
5) Reading
6) more writing
7) workout (lifting, swimming, yoga, etc.)
8) diversion -- producing music, more writing, more reading, going out, or staying in with a girl friend.
On the transition points between these activities I often will be changing locations and may dally a bit in populated areas (like campus or certain streets) to meet cool new people (mostly girls
). Some basic things I focus on:
1) Get up with the sun -- it makes the days feel longer (especially in winter) and when I don't get up I feel like I'm starting already behind schedule.
2) Writing for a decided amount of time with a minimum word count.
3) Deadlines for personal projects -- this can be difficult, but if I tell a bunch of people when my deadline is I'm sure to put more of an effort in meeting it.
4) If I notice that I am just coping instead of creating I will, if justifiable, end that activity and go do something creative and engaging instead.
5) When I think about my friends with children or the ones with 9-5 jobs that they don't like I push myself harder, knowing that this selfish (not in a bad sense) part of my life will end and a sense of duty/extra-personal responsibility will probably take over, judging by what happens to most men.
6) Don't put certain activities on a pedestal. Don't overthink. Remember, the art of something is the habit of doing it, not the knowledge of how to do it. You can only solve a practical problem with action.
7) Avoid time vacuums like surfing the web and Imaginative Literature.
8) Be excited about what I am doing. A lot of the times I have to remind myself why I am doing a certain activity, remind myself of its end, to get excited about it.
9) Trust in my intuition. Not everything needs to be consciously decided and analyzed.
I'm curious to see how other people organize their typical day -- I think this question could lead to some cool insights.
Cheers,
Oskar
