My daily objective is to nurture all my life areas but doing something for each. I assign each life area to a time block.
| Morning | Afternoon and Evening |
|---|---|
| Understanding | Overseeing |
| Creating | Sustaining |
| Connecting | |
| Restoring |
The important thing to remember is that my mornings should be used to strengthen my religious and spiritual life as well as my writing life. In other words, they should be used to practice being and thinking. A successful morning for me is one when I felt I existed, read, wrote, and thought deeply, which should help me make progress on at least one specific subject.
Pre-desk (~8:00–9:00)
- Wake up.
- Feed my cats.
- Wash my face.
- Walk with Lea (if she is awake).
- Weigh in.
- Drink two glasses of water.
Uninterrupted morning block (~9:00–12:00)
Rules
- Forest on my phone
- No social media and email
- Alone at my desk
- No meetings
- Work in 25 m/5 m pomodoros, sticking on one task
- No extended breaks (maintain momentum, not combat fatigue)
Core block
Core block is non-negotiable. If a project requires more time, I could forgo of subsequent phases of my morning routine to accommodate it, except my core routine.
- Meditate.
- Read one poem.
- Write 5MJ.
- Open and back up laptop.
- Write a daily working log; look at the menu for the week to get a sense of what I’d like to do.
Writing block
Details here are allowed to change depending on my projects and their status.
- If a project is available, see my menu or open Things and perform what to do from a set of preplanned actions prepared during the weekly review).
- If a project is unavailable, perform my morning writing practice.
- I am also allowed to just use to read through a stack of material if that is what’s necessary.
Miscellaneous
About an hour or 30 minutes before lunch break, I spend some time doing the following.
- Write daily review report (See my daily review routine).
- Process yesterday’s seeds.
- Process at least one Talahardin note.
- Process at least one previous diary entry.
- Push changes in my talahardin to Github.
- Process yesterday’s photos if any.
- Connect with at least one contact.
Lunch Break (12:00–1:30)
- Lunch.
- Dishes.
- Brush my teeth.
- Feed the cats.
- Take a bath.
Unstructured Time (~1:30–5:00)
- Day job
- Continue working on projects, doing tasks, accomplishing administrative work, and taking meetings.
- Take a siesta when needed.
- Have merienda.
Field work (5:00–7:00)
- I go out for a walk and perform my daily walking routine.
Dinner (7:00–10:00)
- Dinner.
- Time with Lea.
Wind Down (10:30–12:00)
- Log expenses for Vince fund.
- Log expenses for Couple fund.
- Take two Vitamin C capsules.
- Take 1/4 sertraline tablet.
- Brush my teeth.
- Clean the cat litter.
- Take a bath.
- Do evening skin care.
- Floss.
- Meditate.
- Sleep by 12:00 pm.