John Paul Grips on Nostr: I love this habit that I adopted since the start of this year. It's called "clocking ...
I love this habit that I adopted since the start of this year. It's called "clocking out at 6PM no matter what".
My work hours are way too flexible and unless I miss meetings or end up unavailable without a notice during "peak hours", nobody really cares when I start or stop working. So in general, I start some time between 9AM and 11AM (usually 2 hours after waking up). This roughly sums up to around 8 hours per day on average, so it's not really "stealing company time" or whatever, but sometimes circumstances get in the way or I start slacking off and then I have a tendency to stay in the office a bit longer to actually work on my tasks. Sometimes for hours. Then my work-life balance and sleep pretty much spirals down the drain.
This has been really good for fighting my tendency to procrastinate, because now I'm effectively racing against the clock. It used to be the same with homework in school, where I only get into overdrive once the deadline gets dangerously close. Now that whip is there daily, self-imposed, without any tolerance window and it's already helping me a lot.
It's also a great impetus for priorization. Is there something important that I wanted to do today instead of dealing with low-hanging fruit? Too bad, time's up. Better do it as the first thing tomorrow. I think you catch my drift.
As a specific example, today I woke up around 11, decided to work from home today and slacked a lot in the process. I did get a lot done in the last three hours, but the tasks were longer than I expected. Does that mean that I'll stay working until 10PM as I used to and then let my sleep schedule get even worse? NO! It's 6PM! See you tomorrow, bozos!
My work hours are way too flexible and unless I miss meetings or end up unavailable without a notice during "peak hours", nobody really cares when I start or stop working. So in general, I start some time between 9AM and 11AM (usually 2 hours after waking up). This roughly sums up to around 8 hours per day on average, so it's not really "stealing company time" or whatever, but sometimes circumstances get in the way or I start slacking off and then I have a tendency to stay in the office a bit longer to actually work on my tasks. Sometimes for hours. Then my work-life balance and sleep pretty much spirals down the drain.
This has been really good for fighting my tendency to procrastinate, because now I'm effectively racing against the clock. It used to be the same with homework in school, where I only get into overdrive once the deadline gets dangerously close. Now that whip is there daily, self-imposed, without any tolerance window and it's already helping me a lot.
It's also a great impetus for priorization. Is there something important that I wanted to do today instead of dealing with low-hanging fruit? Too bad, time's up. Better do it as the first thing tomorrow. I think you catch my drift.
As a specific example, today I woke up around 11, decided to work from home today and slacked a lot in the process. I did get a lot done in the last three hours, but the tasks were longer than I expected. Does that mean that I'll stay working until 10PM as I used to and then let my sleep schedule get even worse? NO! It's 6PM! See you tomorrow, bozos!