I’ve alluded to my social distancing schedule in my earlier post. I’m still not sharing it, because, as previously stated, I have no real desire to contribute to toxic productivity. I’m doing this because I have goals I want to accomplish, so I wanted to share some of the guidelines I’m living by right now.
Balancing long-term and short-term academic goals with fun activities, including creativity and getting outside
Doing everything in short increments (nothing longer than an hour) to reduce bingeing and burnout.
2a. I find it’s especially helpful to stop at a point where I am on a roll, rather than what feels like a natural stopping point, so it’s easy to get started againI like to start early and budget more time for morning activities (tea, showering, breakfast, Duolingo) than I know it takes because it gives me a sense of momentum being done with these things before the schedule
I’m allowing for flexibility both within the day (moving the blocks around), and within the week as a whole (including giving myself grace to decide, for instance, that I am not going to work on a few of the items on my daily list today because I am tired and I’m going to have a lot more free time.
Daily activities include:
Smaller and larger academic writing projects
Daily walks
Fairly regular cups of tea
Art projects
Reading academic texts
Reading for fun
Today I decided that I was not going to pursue the schedule as aggressively, but I will probably still have a block of time for writing as well. Ultimately, I think if I embrace that I’m tired and not feeling it today, I won’t lose my schedule entirely.
At any rate, I recognize this post is not as inspired as past writing, but I’m trying to establish the habit of writing daily. I have yet to decide if this includes weekends or not.
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