Time (mis)Management
I've really been struggling with time management as of late. Not enough time to do the things I want to do, not enough time to do the things I need to do. Struggling to keep track of things, being forgetful, feeling like time is slipping through my fingers and suddenly I've lost whole days, whole weeks! My requirements aren't where they need to be and with the halfway point of the year approaching I've been stressing about what this means for my trajectory. One more than one occasion I've caught myself thinking in ways that I know are traps:
maybe I should just do a big push for a while until I'm caught up again that's not sustainable!
maybe I should attend fewer classes and use that extra time for myself so you want to work on your kung fu by not participating in kung fu?
maybe if I shove kung fu to the top of my priorities, ignoring some other stuff I can get caught up my "other stuff" is also my kung fu so ignoring it is the opposite of working on it!
I think part of this is stemming from not getting enough sleep, and not eating properly. I feel like I'm stuck in a negative feedback loop where I don't have enough energy so I don't get things done, or I stay up late to do them leading to less sleep and less energy and more to do and even less sleep and.. that's where I am, and that's what I'm doing.
So if the base of this is not getting enough sleep, then even though it feels counter-intuitive I think I do need to put some things on the back burner until I can consistently give myself enough rest. So that even if that means I have less time, I have more energy with that time, and I can start to make progress again.
I have been trying this past week to make sleep a priority, trying to give myself a bedtime and sticking to it, and so far it feels positive, but I also understand that this means much of my routine needs to change because I work on a lot of my requirements in the late evening. I have had to miss a few blogs and forms work and PU and SU in the pursuit of a proper sleep schedule, but I need to remind myself that I need to do this sustainably, and I know I can't do it running on 5 hours every night, because that's what I've been doing and it definitely isn't working.
Getting proper rest will also help with mental clarity, and thus help with time management. Recovery is as important, or more important the harder we train.
ReplyDeleteI just wanted to say that I completely understand your challenge right now. I too have been having problems with time management leading to not getting done what I need to, and not accomplishing what I want to either. It's quite frustrating, and something that I am still very much working on, at least as best as I can. I have found sleep to be an important foundation though thathas a massive impact on my ability to get things done and to be motivated. I truly wish you the best of luck with this, and I think you are correct that it will need to involve both fixing your sleep and critically examining what activities and tasks you are prioritizing.
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