but could still serve a purpose for anyone with a more rigid schedule who wants to be more productive in their free time.
I had quite a bad experience with this, but I think I’m permanently overcommitted, and often just don’t have time to do everything that I want/feel an obligation to do–and often I can’t tell the difference between “want to do X” and “feel obligated to do X”. Also, I have the lucky trait that I can usually get work done on demand, even if I’m exhausted, but I tend to abuse this and think it means I can get work done nonstop all the time. Which I can’t.
I don’t this this is a knockdown argument that this technique doesn’t work for me. It might well work in a different form. I’m still trying various things for personal free-time productivity.
I understand what you mean, and I’d suggest trying to keep different lists of time frames on which to accomplish your goals for free-time productivity so you know when you’ve done enough for a day. I’m usually able to guess reasonably accurately as to what I can accomplish in a given time frame though, as long as I stay motivated on a daily basis, which may be harder for others than it is for me.
On a daily level I try to think of about how productive I am on what I consider good days and try to equate that with what I’m working on any given day and plan to have a good day. Since I’ve been doing my daily schedule thing I haven’t had a day of poor motivation yet, which is tremendous as my motivation is usually temperamental as hell.
Not sure if that’ll help you at all, but I figured I’d throw it out there.
I had quite a bad experience with this, but I think I’m permanently overcommitted, and often just don’t have time to do everything that I want/feel an obligation to do–and often I can’t tell the difference between “want to do X” and “feel obligated to do X”. Also, I have the lucky trait that I can usually get work done on demand, even if I’m exhausted, but I tend to abuse this and think it means I can get work done nonstop all the time. Which I can’t.
I don’t this this is a knockdown argument that this technique doesn’t work for me. It might well work in a different form. I’m still trying various things for personal free-time productivity.
I understand what you mean, and I’d suggest trying to keep different lists of time frames on which to accomplish your goals for free-time productivity so you know when you’ve done enough for a day. I’m usually able to guess reasonably accurately as to what I can accomplish in a given time frame though, as long as I stay motivated on a daily basis, which may be harder for others than it is for me.
On a daily level I try to think of about how productive I am on what I consider good days and try to equate that with what I’m working on any given day and plan to have a good day. Since I’ve been doing my daily schedule thing I haven’t had a day of poor motivation yet, which is tremendous as my motivation is usually temperamental as hell.
Not sure if that’ll help you at all, but I figured I’d throw it out there.