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Maybe get a therapist and figure out what you actually want out of life first. How do I keep up with so much stuff? I learn to set boundaries. If my company sl
by wayn3 10y ago
Maybe get a therapist and figure out what you actually want out of life first.
How do I keep up with so much stuff? I learn to set boundaries. If my company slack goes off at weird times and I dont want to deal with it, I turn notifications off.
I get up at 5AM to exercise. Then I do all the work that requires a fresh brain. Until 10AM tops. Then I read things I want to read. Then I babysit whoever needs babysitting at work. By 2PM I'm done with work. I could pretend to be busy until 7PM but I won't be productive anyway, so why pretend? If someone calls me out on it I show them the things I've built while they were putting in "longer hours".
The remaining hours, until 11pm can be spent whichever way I want.
Fitting your 1-4 into one schedule isnt difficult at all. You just have to learn to say no first.
Nobody in the world "needs" access to you 24/7. Not really. If you tell people that you are available during X hours, they will learn to communicate efficiently. It'll be painful at first. For both parties. But they will learn to deal with it after the third time they had to wait for a response for 20 hours because they tried to be inefficient again.
They will threaten you. Absolutely. The social norm is that you shit people tell you to do. Just don't do it. You'll be amazed.
The primary reason a startup consumes ALL your time is because the guy at the top, the CEO, is a 22 year old bumbling idiot who hides his inefficiency behind requiring his employees to be available to him at all times. Kick his butt a couple times and he will learn faster how to be a better boss.
- kzisme 10y agoHow long have you been a morning person and is it easy to get into the habit of waking up early?
- wayn3 10y agono its not. its painful every day. when my alarm rings, i'd rather not get up and my brain comes up with a million reasons about why I should really not get up. just like everyone else. the trick is to accept that life is not about comfort. when you get out of your comfort zone and do things that make you feel uneasy, you feel a lot more alive, though. you have to force it hard for 3 weeks. then you're hooked.