✔ Simplicity
There really isn't much to keep track of, here.
Every day is similar and the main timeslices
mostly align with morning/afternoon/evening.
Hexstream's Awesome Daily Schedule
Sharing one of the most important pillars of my productivity!
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Get out of bed
at 7:00, never later, sometimes earlier. (Alarm clock is far from bed.)Prelude
Breakfast, briefly check emails, notifications, RSS, LinkedIn.
Start work
at 8:00, often earlier, sometimes later.Hard Productivity
Programming and other creative tasks that MUST NOT be interrupted.
Lunch
typically starts around 12:15 and lasts around 30 minutes.Soft Productivity
Productive tasks that can be interrupted, and miscellaneous stuff.
End work
at 16:00, never earlier, preferably not later.Dinner
around 17:30.Entertainment
YouTube and other distractions.
Go to bed
preferably around 21:30, often after 22:00, preferably never after 00:00.⚓
✔ Consistency
This schedule typically applies 7 days a week, nearly 365 days a year.
Basically, I always get the best of Monday (ready for high productivity),
Friday (close to weekend) and Saturday (start of weekend), every day!
✔ Flexibility
This schedule can easily support almost any type of workload I may need.
The Productivity timeslices can easily be repurposed when appropriate.
Soft Productivity is great for absorbing variations, such as going outdoors.
✔ Discipline
This schedule makes it easy to achieve high discipline without sacrifices!
✔ Momentum
This schedule makes it inherently easy to gain and maintain momentum!
✔ Disruption resistance
Sometimes, life happens and may throw things off balance.
The schedule helps to get back on track as soon as possible.
✔ Sustainability and self-regulation
With a "mini-weekend" of guilt-free entertainment at the end of each day,
this schedule is inherently burnout-proof!
The flexible Entertainment period (no hard time limit),
along with the 100% sacrosanct 7:00 limit for getting out of bed,
allows to safely manage Productivity VS Entertainment tradeoffs.
Overindulging in Entertainment incurs a punishment (feeling groggy),
encouraging to scale back Entertainment to pay back the sleep deficit.