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My Personal Routine Planning

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Intro

I was thinking through words earlier on what's wrong on my routine planning this morning and I realized it can be a great manner to start my public digital garden ↗.

So below is my planning.

The Plan

Intention   summary

The goal is aggregate all I need to build a good routine:

  • Values
  • Expected Overcomes
  • Notion of Time Blocking

Keep In Mind

Expected Overcomes & Values

Organized Mind
Stop worrying on "what's next".
Make Life Pleasant
The "want more" taste in the end of the day.
Time Is Short
Wasting time isn't a option.
Procrastination Is A Sign
Reduce the tasks load by interpolating with light and enjoyable tasks.
Reduce Decision Making
Need to decide on what to do next wastes your energy.
Eat The Frog From The Morning
The chaos should be taken on the morning, where you're full of energy.

Considerations

Since the start time of the day changes accordingly my needs and desires, I'll be time-agnostic.

The below visualizations considers:

  • We need 8h of rest.
  • We have a available time-span of 16 hours.
  • I'll allocate at least 6h of work.
  • I need pauses on work to avoid procrastination.

Static Inflexibility

Mon-Fri 8:30AM-9:00AM
Work Daily
Sun-Sat 4PM-5PM
Daily call with my best friend
Sat 10AM-12PM
Call on friends' studies group

Known Issues

  • Extend the refections due distractions (such audiobooks or social interactions).
  • Dive into hype and ignore the other tasks.
  • Procrastinate on work due lack of breaks.
  • Lack of the habit to say NO, overloading myself at work.
    • New tasks aren't a break from your previous responsibility.
  • Overthinking on changing tasks.
  • Checking agenda and daily plan is currently a struggle. It should be easy as Alt+Tab.

Ideas

  • The Pomodoro break could be:
    • Reading a book.
    • Hearing a audiobook, taking it from refections.
    • Learning a new thing.
    • Talk with others via messaging.

Scratching The Plan

This is my personal planning, use it as inspiration!

Tasks Overview

  1. REQUI Wake up and prepare
    • Exit bedroom
    • Caffeine
    • Eat
    • Exercises
  2. IDEAL Plan the day
  3. IDEAL Technical study on other areas
  4. REQUI Work @8h30min
  5. IDEAL Lunch @12h
  6. IDEAL Work @13h
  7. REQUI Reflections with my friend @16h
  8. IDEAL Finish the day report
  9. REQUI Shutting down
    • Patch timeto.me export with the updated routine for tomorrow

Idealizations

  • Finish the work before the call with my friend.
  • Be able to do the morning tasks.
  • Take the last bath to break the work tension.

Theories

  • If I skip day idealization, that "saved time" will be spent on a existential crisis session. Keep the mind healthy is not a optional thing.
See the source code here.