First Funemployday! Time management.

Yay, it's my first jobless day! Time to relax, travel, and later pursue digital nomadism!

(Google, I know you're about that face-to-face life, but when you enable nomad mode for your employees please let me know!)

Time management problem

Yester's day was the last of me working more than normal while sick in order to leave the team with all my stuff in a good state - code checked in, design docs up to date and knowledge transferred to other teammates. How productive.

And just that night I'm already being taken away by where ever my emails and notifications take me, and just this morning I'm bailing on my plans because I stayed up too late (and I'm sick so yeah).

Time management solution

Time to bring some intention to my personal life!

With as much free time as I'll have, it will disappear just as fast as every summer vacation has, and even in a full day there isn't time for everything.  I will use the following schedule to guide me.

Every day

Some things are most effective when you do them 4-7 days a week:

• Eating well
• Meditation
• Exercise
• Language learning

So, I'll make an effort to do these every day.

Rotation - one per day

"Work, Sleep, Family, Fitness, or Friends: Pick 3"

No. We'll do them all!

Sleep is for every day, then we'll rotate through these things that are effective in small doses but are best done in large chunks of uninterrupted time. One per day! Frequencies needn't be equal, but balanced.

• Relaxing (movies, videogames, socializing)
• Digital projects, career stuff (my job or staying sharp for a job)
• Including, once in a while: study algorithms and do coding competitions
• Animal rights (studying and some low key activism)
• One-off personal projects

Consistently - one per week

Then there are things I want to do that I don't have time for often, yet are in danger of never happening and can't be done retroactively:

• Call my family
• Blog about and reflect on travels and digital nomadism

Implementation

I want to allow myself to do one thing -- whatever my brain wants that day -- as soon as it wakes up. That will help me be spontaneous and not feel like a robot when I wake up. Today, it was this blog post! But after that, I should default to living intentionally again: making sure I have something healthy to eat, meditating and generally staying on track.