1. Study Awk (2)
2. Go for a walk (1)
3. Finish reading, summarising; publish first week of March 2020 #o logs (2.5)
4. Walk up 90 floors of stairs, pushups (0.5)
5. Read, reply to current YH articles; be in #o to talk @ 7pm UTC (2)
6. Publish review of day’s work; agenda for 2020.5.01 (1)
Review
Slept in ‘til 11 after yesterday’s insomnia. Derped in the morning.I’m feeling the pressure of the agenda – it’s causing me anxiety/to spin when I waste time and fall behind schedule – I need to eliminate this irrational response, or at least channel it into productivity. Oh, and stop wasting time, of course.
1. Switched to the GAWK manual – much better! (1.25)
2. Also got groceries; caught in a thunderstorm (1.5)
3. This took longer, and was way more arduous than anticipated – though the content was really interesting. Won’t put a deadline on publishing future log summaries; just keep allotting hours til it’s finished (3.5)
4.Tweaked my shoulder doing pushups – didn’t listen to body (stubborn idiocy – don’t do it again!) (0.5)
5.Read through http://younghands.club/2020/02/24/wh-plan-for-week-20-feb-24th-mar-1st/#comment-482 and http://younghands.club/2020/03/02/wh-plan-for-week-21-march-2nd-march-8th/#comment-505 – reckon the review questions could be helpful for my daily review; will use ’em tomorrow – including time-stamping EVERYTHING to diagnose the derp, and then STOP derping. Commented on the former article. Meditated on http://younghands.club/2020/02/24/wh-plan-for-week-20-feb-24th-mar-1st/#comment-482 . (2)
6. Not a terrible day, but need to work on mindset (1)
Comment by Daniel Godwin — May 1, 2020 @ 12:41 am
If you sleep afterwards until 11am, that doesn’t sound much like insomnia, more like messed up schedule and/or winding down/up. Ftr, if you want to adjust schedules, it tends to work better way more gradually than the 1 hour per day you said you tried – more like having some proper winding down time (at least half hour, better more) and then moving it all by 5-10 minutes every day, until it gets where you want it to be.
Re anxiety & spin and since you say you want to pick up those questions I gave to Robinson, it’s probably more useful to give a read to this comment as your struggles are not all that original: http://younghands.club/2020/03/02/rmd-week-18-plan-mar-1st-6th-2020/#comment-530
Comment by Diana Coman — May 1, 2020 @ 8:28 am
You’re totally right – I’ve been working really close to bedtime; and come to think of it, my 1-hour-a-day attempts at sleep rescheduling have never worked in the past, either – somehow it never occurred to me to try something else!
That linked comment is super helpful – particularly the mindset of not rolling over/accumulating previous failures to the next day, but thinking purely in terms of how to maximise success *today*.
Thanks!
Comment by Daniel Godwin — May 1, 2020 @ 5:23 pm