Timeblock
| Time (PDT) | Intention | Revision 1 | Revision 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0000 | Attempting sleep | ||
| 0030 | Attempting sleep | ||
| 0100 | Hanging out | ||
| 0130 | Hanging out | ||
| 0200 | SLEEP | ||
| 0230 | SLEEP | ||
| 0300 | SLEEP | ||
| 0330 | SLEEP | ||
| 0400 | SLEEP | ||
| 0430 | SLEEP | ||
| 0500 | SLEEP | ||
| 0530 | Morning routine | PAGERDUTY WAKEUP | |
| 0600 | Walk to work | ||
| 0630 | Start of work routine | ||
| 0700 | Pomodoro: Organization | ||
| 0730 | Pomodoro: JIRA | ||
| 0800 | Pomodoro: JIRA | Dental Hygiene | |
| 0830 | Pomodoro: JIRA | ||
| 0900 | Pomodoro: JIRA | ||
| 0930 | Pomodoro: JIRA | ||
| 1000 | Pomodoro: JIRA | ||
| 1030 | Pomodoro: JIRA | ||
| 1100 | Buffer | Pomodoro: JIRA | |
| 1130 | Buffer | ||
| 1200 | Lunch | ||
| 1230 | Lunch | Ping pong | |
| 1300 | Pomodoro: JIRA | ||
| 1330 | Pomodoro: JIRA | ||
| 1400 | Data Gov Seattle Quick | ||
| 1430 | Buffer | Slack discussion | |
| 1500 | Walk to therapist | ||
| 1530 | Therapist appointment | ||
| 1600 | Therapist appointment | ||
| 1630 | Walk home | Therapist appointment | |
| 1700 | Cooking | Walk home | |
| 1730 | Cooking | Snack | |
| 1800 | Buffer | Cooking | |
| 1830 | Buffer | Cooking | |
| 1900 | Gaming: Overwatch | TV: Stranger Things | |
| 1930 | Gaming: Overwatch | TV: Stranger Things | |
| 2000 | Gaming: Overwatch | A bit of cleaning | |
| 2030 | Gaming: Overwatch | Winding down | |
| 2100 | TV: Stranger Things | SLEEP | |
| 2130 | TV: Stranger Things | SLEEP | |
| 2200 | SLEEP | ||
| 2230 | SLEEP | ||
| 2300 | SLEEP | ||
| 2330 | SLEEP |
Thinking
I have finally stayed up as my phone woke me up. Not sure if this is a shock to my system moment or a rare moment of morning control. Of note, what woke me up was an OpsLead page and not my scheduled alarm. Waking up now also means running on 3 hours of sleep. Giving myself lots of buffer in case I need a nap. If things go well, however, I may be able to sleep as early as 2100 (watch Stranger things during the earlier buffer).
I'll do some more thinking when doing my organization pomodoro.
Additional Thinking
So, I can feel the fatigue catching up to me. I need to engage with my work like I engage with Overwatch (or videogames in general). Right now, I'm being pretty good about following the rules from yesterday.
Also, the experiment of no distractive elements until I have 10 pomodoros worked very well yesterday, and has stopped me from usual distractive habits a few times today already. I went to go to twitter, or a blog, or youtube quite a few times already and then said aloud to myself, "Not allowed to do that."
And so, given the pomodoro schedule, and my want to "do that", I'm doing my first pomodoro as scheduled.
I have also learned a bit about how one of my habit traps work. After a bit of work (a meeting, a pomodoro, etc.), I want some time to digest various information swirling in my head. However, this state of being is a cue for the "browse social media and/or youtube" routine, which never gives me the reward of a less cluttered mind. It keeps me in the state of "I want to digest various information swirling in my head", which keeps triggering the bad habit. Hence the loss of a day.
An incredibly insidious trap for me to fall into. I have found that with the pomodoro rule, I can more easily avoid this trap until much later into the day.
I'm going to try pretty hard today not to nap and hope to fall asleep around 2100 so I can wake up at 0500 again tomorrow. It is the ideal time for me to wake up, so it would be solid to build that habit now.