I suspect this might have been helpful when I was at college (I’m not really sure; there are distinct similarities to things I’ve tried, though it’s quite possible I was too disorganized about any of it, or that these simply won’t work for me). Now that I’m in a position where my options are governed pretty highly by what time of year/day of the week/etc it is and what my family is up to, and my easy note-taking devices are all incapable of maintaining a battery charge and are too specialized to easily replace, I’m finding it difficult to do anything, let alone anything organized.
I also suspect that part of the problem is that I’ve become nocturnal over the summer (the unpleasantness of being up at the same time as other people in the house does not appear to have much positive utility to balance it, and while people are out in the daytime now, readjusting my sleep cycle has proven quite difficult). I think I might have unconsciously categorized anything between 8PM and 3AM as non-work time, which is a problem when that makes up a sizable portion of my time awake.
So I think the best thing I can do in the immediate term is to adjust so I’m awake from… Ah… well, when the sun is up. Finding an optimal schedule is more troubling than I expected, and will require further consideration. But most of my successful productivity efforts have involved access to sunlight (the best involve access to better exercise options than I currently have, but that brings to mind some idiom about beggars...).
But if I can get my relationship with the sun going again, of course I’ll be trying all this.
I suspect this might have been helpful when I was at college (I’m not really sure; there are distinct similarities to things I’ve tried, though it’s quite possible I was too disorganized about any of it, or that these simply won’t work for me). Now that I’m in a position where my options are governed pretty highly by what time of year/day of the week/etc it is and what my family is up to, and my easy note-taking devices are all incapable of maintaining a battery charge and are too specialized to easily replace, I’m finding it difficult to do anything, let alone anything organized.
I also suspect that part of the problem is that I’ve become nocturnal over the summer (the unpleasantness of being up at the same time as other people in the house does not appear to have much positive utility to balance it, and while people are out in the daytime now, readjusting my sleep cycle has proven quite difficult). I think I might have unconsciously categorized anything between 8PM and 3AM as non-work time, which is a problem when that makes up a sizable portion of my time awake.
So I think the best thing I can do in the immediate term is to adjust so I’m awake from… Ah… well, when the sun is up. Finding an optimal schedule is more troubling than I expected, and will require further consideration. But most of my successful productivity efforts have involved access to sunlight (the best involve access to better exercise options than I currently have, but that brings to mind some idiom about beggars...).
But if I can get my relationship with the sun going again, of course I’ll be trying all this.