Illusions of Time (and Relative Busy-ness)

 Gosh that title sounds pretentious and disproportionately epic to a short blog post , but I think it'll be appropriate so please excuse my expressions of grandeur. 

Last week was relatively busier than usual, so naturally I was a little nervous about maintaining my training and keeping my numbers up, but surprisingly I feel like I had an easier time staying on track than I normally had. I work from home and my hours are extremely flexible, so as a result it's pretty rare that I think things like "when am I going to do my pushups?" "will I have enough time today to get my sit-ups done?" etc. 

I mean, that's what you would expect me to say, but I think the lack of time pressure can become a different breed of problem, for me at least. It's not news that I continue to be locked in ever present, legendary, extraordinary, fantastic, multi-book-epic-novel-spanning level battle against my greatest nemesis, Procrastination. Since this is the case I often find myself late at night faced with too many sit-ups, and more push-ups than I would like to do in one sitting because more than once throughout the day I think "I've got lots of time left today, and nothing going on later, I'll do them in a bit." They still get done but sometimes it's unpleasant, and most times I feel that sting of "handing in an assignment seconds before the deadline even though you told yourself, this time would be different,"-feeling that I have come to know so well. 

But like I mentioned earlier, that didn't happen once during my busy week. The added time pressure forced me to get things done exactly on, or even better, ahead of schedule because the "I've got lots of time left today" thought got shut down immediately with "no you really don't so do it now".  And even though that week is over and I'm back to my regular schedule I've been trying to carry that thinking forward with me and I'm still getting things done long before midnight which feels really good.


In conclusion:

Actual time equals perceived time divided by the product of delta busy-ness and motivation divided by the square of procrastination to the power of stubbornness

Time(true) = ((percievedtime  / (Δ busy-ness * motivation)) / √ procrastination)^stubbornness

(look I showed my work and even remembered to carry the 2)


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