🧵 WHAT DOES AN IDEAL DAY LOOK LIKE?

🌆 M O R N I N G

Regular Check-Ins

Focused and Productive Work

Read for a Little Bit

Lunch / Decompress

Constructive Thinking

Focused and Productive Work

Morning Rational

First hour is devoted to just waking up, get the coffee, water, vitamins, and sit for a bit.

Plan for Tomorrow

Then after I’m up, the zen mode comes, I’m awake enough to not fall asleep meditating, get the fresh air with a clear mind, and then get into jotting down whatever I couldn’t shake during meditating and walking.

🌃 E V E N I N G

Some Light Reading

First hour here is devoted to getting the day in order. The order of these can vary, but making sure you are ready to tackle the day is priority number one.

Now the mind is taken care of so we workout, shower up and make sure The Bonz and Ferb have been watered.

Once you are ready, dive into whatever you want to get done for the day right away. This two hour block is the most important time for me.

I’m never super productive after I eat, so this time is for loose thought. Letting your thoughts and ideas bounce around. Not sticking too hard to anything, let thoughts come up naturally.Aka shower thought time (without the shower...)

Evening Rational

This is dedicated unproductive time. Do nothing, scroll the internet, read blogs, check-in with FL/micro.blog/etc.

I try to keep cooking time around 30min and eating time around the same. Usually start the Big Screen Time while eating or have a game on while cooking.

At this point, we focus into are thinking and start to really formulate on an idea. How would we achieve it, what will it take, etc.

Throw on an episode of whatever show we are watching at that time as we digest a little bit.

This is the last hour to nail down work. Either continuing from the mornings session or if you can, start taking action based on what you have formulated the previous hour.

Additional Thoughts

Makes you realize how much of a pain commuting is...

In between episodes take BW out for his nighttime walk and then dive back into TV. I’d prefer to read at this point, but the SO doesn’t so it’s a little bit more blog/FL/magazine time too.

Definitely too much time devoted to TV here.

Will probably expound on Focused Work vs Loose Thinking vs Deep Thinking and why each is important and why these are split/positioned/given this amount of time.

Start to wind down, get your ducks in a row, make sure files aren’t in disarray, your desktop is clean, browser isn’t full of tabs, any unanswered emails are taken care of and then plan out the major things you want to get done in your focused session tomorrow.

Here we can dive into a book or a long magazine piece and then do everything needed to get ready for bed.

For one, Loose Thinking can be done while you are doing some of the less meaningful work and letting your mind wander a bit.

But if you think you do more than 5hrs of real work in any day you are probably lying to yourself.

And most importantly you shouldn’t treat any map like this as a bible. It’s a loose structure to give direction, but never will a day fit perfectly into this so you need to be adaptable and not let an emergency or last minute meeting throw you for a loop and ruin your day.

And I think if you take the first hour, middle hour, and last hour as prescribed here, those five hours will be more productive and energized.

Sleep - 6hrs min / 8hrs max