I have often read about the financial practice of paying yourself first whereby you take some money out of your pay packet and put it into your savings account before you do anything else. In trying to manage my own job, personal life, and personal projects I was not having success allocating time for all three. However what I was sure of was that doing my personal projects was a key goal that I needed to achieve to feel good about my life.
To solve this problem I decided to take the paying yourself first approach to time management. Normally I wake up around 4:30 to 6:00 am and do my normal routine which is already stretching the limit of the amount of time available before work, and when I get home I become too tired to work on my own projects. By paying myself first I woke up at 3:30 am today and managed to get a good hour's work done on my Passbook project and do some casual reading as well. When 4:30 am came around I resumed my normal routine without problems.
My goal now is to tweak my wake up time between 2 am and 3 am. I am unsure which one will allow me to stay up until a reasonable time at night. Unfortunately a lot of social activity in our current society still revolves around night time activities and it appears that morning people are a minority; at least in my age group. However, for the first day of an experiment it has turned out rather well. I am able to continue my day as normal while starting the day doing something I really enjoy.
So try waking up an hour early and doing something that you truly enjoy and see if it makes your day better. For night owls I would suggest sleeping in late, something that is probably a lot easier to achieve, although the morning after may become more rushed if you do not wake up on time. But based on my experience if you are doing something with your allocated time that you really like doing then it won't add to the mental strain nor contribute to your level of fatigue built up throughout the day.
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