Stick to your time slots
Follow your god damn schedule!
It may only be me who is suffering from this but if you are planning on accomplishing your goals, it is unbelievably crucial to stick to your own schedule and set realistic time slots. Even up to this point I still find myself spending too much time on things that aren’t that high on my priority list and as a result I’m constantly being forced to over work myself.
It’s one thing to say “Okay, I’ll start the book by 5pm, finish it by 7pm and move onto the cooking”, it’s a totally different game when you actually attempt to implement it. To be honest this post has been sitting in the process of being written for the last two weeks. I’ll usually work around it by telling myself there are too many things going on or that I don’t have time to focus on this right now. Let me tell you once and for all, that, that is total bullshit.
Luckily you have approximately 24 hours in a day, give or take actual scientific time. Although sleep and work progress is important there are ways by which you can emphasize and tweak both systems to work in accordance with each other. At the time of writing it is 1:51am GMT and I am laying in bed with the laptop placed on top of me. This isn’t technically correct because although I’m not currently sleeping I can feel the drowsiness coming on and this is for the most part due to the way my body is positioned. It has been scientifically proven that while awake if you are seated in a sleep type stance there is much higher chance that you will begin to feel drowsy and fatigued. If I get up now and walk around my house, maybe have a sandwich or two all those feelings of fatigue will disappear. For the most part at least.
Moving along to my original point, if you would like to get more work done and achieve the things you have been trying to achieve at the right time you must come to understand the way your body works. The body is an amazing thing, isn’t it? And everybody’s is slightly different, the differences are subtle but they are still there. For example between 3pm and 5pm is when the body basically takes an inside nap, hence making you feel slightly more tired and causing you to yawn etc.
The faster you come to terms with the way your body functions and at what rate, the more effective your set time slots will be. I’m not going to go into any further detail regarding tracking your body and figuring out at which times is it most efficient because well besides it making me feel unbelievably feminine, it’s 2:30am.
To conclude I would like to say that it is essential to set accurate and realistic schedules to center your work around. I don’t think I really mentioned above but for people like myself who run a bunch of different business’ and have multiple different jobs it is mandatory to create some sort of schedule to work by. Otherwise you will find yourself dealing with things at inappropriate times and increasing your overall stress and workload.