0674 – commit to good sleep and good weekends - 1,000,000 words by @visakanv
So it’s the first weekend since I’ve turned 27. I spent Friday evening having chicken wings and beers with my colleagues, which was a good time. I got home feeling quite focused and inspired to do some good work (of any kind), but somehow I didn’t end up doing it. I ended up staying up pretty late at night with the wife. I can’t quite remember what we were doing. We might have been watching Netflix, I don’t know. But that was a bad decision that I don’t want to make anymore. I know objectively that I’m better, more productive and make better decisions when I sleep and wake early. I slept at about 10pm last night (saturday) and woke up at 6am this morning. I went for a run, which felt good. Then I got home and did some writing, which also felt good. But then after that I generally dawdled around unproductively. When I say “unproductively”, I don’t mean that I need to be spending my weekends doing the same work that I do on weekdays. But rather, I should be doing one of 4 things – becomi
So it’s the first weekend since I’ve turned 27. I spent Friday evening having chicken wings and beers with my colleagues, which was a good time. I got home feeling quite focused and inspired to do some good work (of any kind), but somehow I didn’t end up doing it. I ended up staying up pretty late at night with the wife. I can’t quite remember what we were doing. We might have been watching Netflix, I don’t know. But that was a bad decision that I don’t want to make anymore. I know objectively that I’m better, more productive and make better decisions
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