While I was able to finish Penance Article #2 and picked work back up on the mp-wp bot, I missed my deadline on said article by a full day pretty much. This in turn left me with less time to work on the bot/logger and will push the remaining work there into the start of next week.
Sometimes the key actions that need to be taken are the boring ones, in my case I need to work on making clear my own priorities to myself. Here’s one to start: I need to increase my *waking* hours dedicated to things that matter, and it is clear to me from these recent failures that I may want to try simply waking up early each day and working on TMSR items *before* I head into saltmine work. It would be an action I can take immediately while I continue looking for remote work. So for this next week I will focus on making this small tweak in my routine.
Do that but do it properly: what hours are you going to work for yourself every morning?
It has the added benefit that you should therefore be more easily able to have a conversation on irc during the week as well if/when needed. Do you need eom (end of morning) reports or similar to keep you on track?
Comment by Diana Coman — January 20, 2020 @ 8:22 am
After doing the math, I figured out that if I wake up by 5am each day, that’ll give me at least an hour (with some padding) in the morning to work for myself. This means I’ll need to shift my normal bedtime from my average 2am to about 9pm. Probably a healthy move for me right now anyways.
Re: eom reports, I’d like to give it a trial run sans-reporting for a week and see if I can keep on track on my own steam. If this fails, however, I’ll probably opt for the reports.
Comment by Eric Benevides — January 20, 2020 @ 5:14 pm