Reading posts/time management

[jordifs]

I suffer everyday with this time limit. I can never do as much as wanted. Depression comes when I think nothing can be done (at least alone).

I realised that it is not so important what I want to do. It is really important what I do everyday. It is the present day that matters, not yesterday, not tomorrow. For instance now I am changing, I'm in the process of stop being a consumer only. I want to produce something in return.

I'm in a difficult position. I receive attacks from time to time on my current job. I have two people around me which after few years I believe now must have some kind of psychopathy (both manage me). What I wonder is how some direct attacks no longer affect me. My mind is no longer easy to provoke.

Now some tips about little changes I made:

- Define routines and time frames.
Samples (applies to me):
* at night try to be at home, avoid night activities,
* on monday and thursday no activity please (full EE breathing program)
* everyday at 23h o'clock: it's meditation time, to avoid interruption I disconnect phone,
* everyday at 00h o'clock: it's sleep time,
* I try to wake up early in the morning so I am able to enter and leave the office sooner,
* at home I sit down in front of the computer and I put a limit: one hour for this, one for another thing. Stay in one thing only for long may require a little pause to rest.
Note: if you want to read everything at the forum, and you define a time frame of one hour per day to this task ... then you need to filter and select because everything is impossible. A sample: when I was reading RSS everyday about news, I was stressed. Hundreds of news, some minutes to read just the title, and chose 20 at most to save for further reading. A limit was required for me (too many time dedicated).

- At work: calendar
An electronic calendar is always present, create tasks no smaller than 30 minutes. Define what is to be done today.
This is not planning, it is an information refresh ... what I need to do to "survive" at work.

- At work: one task only
Focus on one task only plus one time frame. You must know the time limit. Later you can choose to continue or to swithc to another one.

- At work: avoid interruption.
I often receive mail notification, now I disable notification or close the email application.
Often people comes to me with questions. I stopped replying them. I focus my eyes and my mind in my screen untill I end. If the person insists I reply that I will reply as soon as I finish (and they can ask with email). Some of them now speak as I am not present, asking if I am in the office. Interesting enough I not only ignore some questions directed to me, now I ignore a lot of noise present. A sample: years ago I need silence to read a book, now I can read with noise (I can disconnect and concentrate on one thing).

- At work: rest
Do not work on one thing for more than 90 minutes. The body needs to rest a little pause is needed. I pause 3 times a day.

Note: my productivity at work is very important. If I am not able to finish in 8 hours, then I need to stay more hours. Critical for me to come home to be free to do what I really want.

- Take a hard decision: say "no" to people.
This includes family and friends.
Sometimes people request me to share a time doing something I do not want to do. For instance: assisting on a computer repair, participating in a party, going to cinema, beach, disco, (really a long list).
Often I feel myself forced to say "yes". Because it is a close friend, or because on a 10 people group I am the only one that do not wish to move to a disco.
Now I am able to say "no" to a lot of people. Time is precious and very valuable. This creates an opportunity to spend your time in another manner.

- Paper checklist: hand write
I am not in a position to be a teacher. Even with more time I still get blocked in front of the computer screen (when I am at home).
So now I write a simple check list of very little tasks I can do. I define what I want to do on the following days.


Hope this helps.

Best wishes,
Jordi

 

[3DStudent]

Hi, maybe you already know this, but you can "subscribe" to a thread and receive notifications via e-mail when a new post is added by hitting the "notify" button at the top right of the thread... :)

Hmm, so that's what that notify button does, thanks for pointing it out. I think I had just forgot to click on "Show new replies to your posts".

I am not in a position to be a teacher. Even with more time I still get blocked in front of the computer screen (when I am at home).
So now I write a simple check list of very little tasks I can do. I define what I want to do on the following days.

Thanks for the detailed post jordifs. It's helpful to see what others specifically do :P. I think I need to allot the time to things like you do. I write post it notes too and check them off, but sometimes I just don't do some of what I had written. I too get "blocked at the computer screen".

 

[mabar]

Hi 3D Student!

My priority is to check the 'new replies to your posts'. Then, if I have a bit of time, I have to choose between: Most recent posts on the forum (and see what grabs my attention there), the sott news page, the translator group, the eiriu eolas forum, or translating if I'm working on something for the group. I usually cannot do all of this every day, unfortunately.
I usually read in my bath, when the supper is cooking. And when my daughter is in bed, at night. And while waiting for public transportation. Or while waiting my turn at the dentist's, etc.
It's also true that since my husband Tigersoap also reads the forum, books, etc., I'm lucky that we can discuss what we have read, and we can keep in touch with what's going on in threads/books we haven't had the time to read. I guess it's a form of networking...

The importance is not the quantity, it's the quality. If you want to read every single post/article, you cannot possibly take your time to let things sink in and take their whole meaning. So, at some point, you need to make a choice.

Hi,

Reading this thread calm my inner babblings that I really want it to write down in The Swamp, because I committed myself to be more participant, recently I just feel I am not doing enough, sometimes I find a very good thread and I just find out it is too long for my time to read it and I got frustrated, I really want to participate in translations, but I had not have the time-money to do so, money, due to internet acces problems I have and I got frustrated. I need to do other tasks at my work, but due to time-lack of employee, had not done so, and I got frustrated. Want to have more time to read and I had not, and I got frustrated, and many activities I do want to do, but not have the time to do so, and I got frustrated.

Fortunately, I am now in the EE Breathing Program and it is helping, I am finding that I am frustrated, I think that its a good thing, accepting it, in another time I would not accept it, I would just denied it, the EE es helping me –I think- at least, in finding or discovering the “my self”, maybe its time to know my self, two days ago I just kind of been able to identify a some sort of a predator attack, a blatant one. I try to identify where the bad thoughts come from, if they are from my subconscious or predators mind, or if they are one of my multiples I`s or I am just being selfish I was going to sleep an then out of the blue appeared the “that bad though” a very good one, because I do consider right now my job as well the employees are too much important, its where we eat. So the bad thought was relate to somethin happening to the store (where we work), and that caught me off balance, for a short time I just did not fall asleep and was anxious, and then a couple of units of time I began to think where that thought came from, and I discovery it came from outsider literally?- outsider my head, kind of a bubble floating near my head and with that, came my counterattack SO to speak, I visualize the store covered inside-out in brilliant pulsating white light…some units of time more and I was able to fall asleep.

Yes I can be frustrated, but I need to accept it wont last long, sooner or later I will be able to find creative ways to find more time.

I try to prioritize what its more important at the specific time, somethings do really matter and somethings do not..

…and in the end I am the one, that somehow choose it to not have that much time, so I kind of put myself in this situation.

mabar

 

[cubbex]

Hello all, I have been meaning to post this for a while, as it's a problem I seem to be having for quite some time. Basically I just feel overwhelmed with the amount of things I want to do. With eating healthily, EE, spinning, taking supplements, and reading, there soon comes no time for anything else.

I'm wondering how I should go about reading the forum. Because at the moment I have some of the boards on RSS feed and I read the posts as they come up. I think I read too much though, not wanting to miss anything. I'm wondering how everyone determines which posts to read and which not to read. I say this because at the moment I am trying to catch up with some of the forum, and am not reading from the recommended reading list.

I have about 20 books I need to read from the list, some of which are the thick ones. So I want to get back onto the books, but always of course keep up with EE and the session threads, which I think are most important. I think I have a fear of missing something, because there's always a nice tidbit of information in threads that wouldn't seem to have it. And a small aim of mine is to read as many of the reading list as I can and gain knowledge.

So, any thoughts on this? When to read and when to not?

I do it by instinct, you know, sometimes I feel that there is something interesting.

And about the books, maybe you are anticipating that you are going to read them and you delay the moment. Because it happens something like that to me, I say that I am going to do this and in the moment I don't do it, and when I say maybe I'll do it, I end up doing it


so that's my thought