Here it is in a nutshell, my ideal day.
6:30am to 7am: Mom duties. Sandwich making, lecturing, checking in, hugging.
7am to 8am: Drink coffee and write, take notes, make lists, think. Ignore negative thoughts.
8am to 11am: Work without distraction. This means staying off the web. When the urge to get distracted hits, make note of said distraction to explore later. No Facebooking*
11am to 1pm: Break for exercise and nourishment, possible reading, knitting.
1pm to 4pm: Work without distraction and perform simultaneous afterschool check-in with the offsrping. Stay in chair.
4pm to 7pm: Take care of the business of being alive. Meal prep, house cleaning, animal care, errands, fire prep, odd jobs.
7pm to 10pm: Free time. Explore web distractions from earlier in the day, knit, sew, paint, whatever. Lay face down on couch. Snuggle with offspring and cat.
10pm: Time to lay this redhead down. Read.
Repeat from top daily to maintain mental, financial, and creative health. Seems pretty doable and it adds an hour to my billable time which is positive. I am hoping that by following this schedule I will have time to do the things I need to do while giving myself time to float and think and entertain all the other stuff that ricochets around in my spongy brain.
* More and more I see Facebook as a way we are being kept down and controlled by marketers. There is too much information available to us and we begin to think it's all important. It's not. I am finding that self directed study is more helpful and honestly healthful.
2 comments:
Totally doable. Especially the floaty part.
very thought provoking comment about facebook. i'm not on, and even though the rest of the world seemingly is, i instinctively know that it will present too much of a distraction for me.
enjoyed following through your day - sounds pretty ideal to me.
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