Comment by pmarreck
3 years ago
And yet the vast majority of these rectangles will be spent JUST on maintaining you so you can spend a minority of them on either work or things you actually want to do.
Sleep, eat, exercise, shower, dress, undress, shop, drive (often in traffic), errands, poop, pee, fap (or sex if you are so positioned), then theoretically get a few hours of work done (hopefully productive and fulfilling but often filled with meetings and other drudgery), then babytime if you have one, and THEN there's maybe 1 row of rectangles left for you to spend how you actually please!
It's why I follow the "wake up early, work-out, get something done" organizing principle for my day. My day is usually in pretty good shape by 9am, even if nothing else happens.
I have to say, it took me a very long time as a self-identified "night owl" but I finally came around to this. I schedule an Orangetheory class at 8:15 M-W-F (I could go earlier, and have, but I have a 9 month old now and the nanny comes @ 8) and I certainly feel like I get a lot more done (also my energy starts off high).