I’ve been blah today, and I thought that maybe I’ve been working too much. I’ve been playing poker 4 days per week online and working 15 hours per week for FTR. Maybe it’s too much?
I have a habit of keeping track of everything, so it didn’t take much to figure it out. Last month I played 17 days online and taking a quick average showed me that I played ~7 hours per day. This means that on average every week I’m only working 42 hours. Damn. It felt like so much more. Normal people work 40 hours/week and they don’t complain 🙁
This leads me to conclude that I have to manage my time better. Not only do I wake up too late, I take too long to get out of bed and then I take even longer to start my day.
There was a two week period this year when I was getting up consistently between 7:30 and 8:30 in the morning. I can’t describe how much of a challenge this was for me. For some reason I just love to stay in bed in the morning, and when I am left to my own devices, I stay there until 11 am. During these two weeks I decided that I was going to get out of bed at the same time every day. I did this mostly because I was sleeping badly and I was trying to help sleep better at night by getting up at the same time every day. It worked, by the way. It sucked so much, but I have to admit that I got a lot done those days.
But then, of course, I fell into my old routine again. Back to sleeping at 3 am, waking up at 11 am, and getting out of bed at 12 pm.
It shouldn’t be too hard to compromise right?! Get up at 9 am, play poker 10-5, actually have an evening after work is done? And then I won’t have to work at midnight due to my procrastination on days I don’t play poker? Wow what a strange and amazing life that would be!
I really love snoozing 🙁 I can’t stand the thought of giving it up 🙁 But feeling like I have less free time than I did back when I was working/commuting 60 hours per week is absolutely ridiculous!
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