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Yeah, that was my thought as well, I have a very tight schedule which allows me only around 9~10 hours a week to dedicate to my startup. Mo - Fri: . Wake up

Yeah, that was my thought as well, I have a very tight schedule which allows me only around 9~10 hours a week to dedicate to my startup. Mo - Fri: . Wake up at 5:30 go to the gym (6 to 7.30) . 7.30 - 9.00 : Shower, breakfast, get ready to work 9. - 9.30 : Commute to work . 9.30 - 6.00pm : Work . 6.00 - 6.30pm : Commute to home . 6.30 - 9.00pm : Tue/Wed: Startup, MWF: Wife . 9.00 - 10.00pm: Dinner, prepare to sleep ... repeat Saturdays: 9.00 - 2.00pm . Startup So 5 hours on saturday + 5 hours on Weekdays = 10hrs in total. I wish I had more time.

your-nanny 8y ago
and frankly that's a killer schedule already...
movedx 8y ago
1.5 hours at the gym? Do you construct the equipment whilst there? 1.5 hours to take a shower, eat breakfast, and get ready for work? Are you flying to Columbia for the beans every morning? I plan each day the previous day. Planning the whole week hasn't worked for me as things change, meetings move, etc. Instead I plan on a day-to-day basis. 0500-0530: Wake, Put eggs on boil, shower whilst they boil, dress after shower, blend Soylent lunch (M-F), kiss wife goodbye for the day 0530-0545: Commute to office 0545-0830: Work on business, looking at Trello for the current or next task 0830-1200: Commute to client's site and do work 1200-1300: Dine, read/research and or chores 1300-1600: Work for client 1600-1615: Commute back to office 1615-1800: Work on business 1800-0900: Commute home, read, work on fiction, spend time with wife 0900-0500: Sleep. Rounding the figures, that's about four hours per day on the business whilst working full time for a client (I contract.) Saturday and Sunday are either spent at social events or on the business in the office (if the wife is busy working on her own projects.) So I manage about 25-30 hours per week. (Just to be clear here, I'm not saying you're doing something wrong, but just pointing out those time lines could be a bit tighter.)
- int_19h 8y ago
  > 1.5 hours to take a shower, eat breakfast, and get ready for work? Are you flying to Columbia for the beans every morning? No, he's probably like a me and a good half of the population that doesn't naturally wake up early, so when we're forced to, we're very groggy, and it takes a while to get up to speed. If you're waking at 5am and don't find it taxing, you probably don't have anything to compare this to, hence your inability to empathize.
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  - movedx 8y ago
    Oh, OK. Silly me.
  - zemvpferreira 8y ago
    Unrelated to the main topic, I used to wake up groggy as well. Was a total mess for the first two hours of the day, the most you’d get out of me would be grunts. Then I quit coffee and everything changed. Coffee’s power to modulate your mood is wildly underrated. Try going without for a month and you will hardly recognize yourself.
    - Cthulhu_ 8y ago
      I drink a lot of coffee but don't really feel groggy in the morning. I did have a period where I did though; I suspect that may have been down to a nutritional deficiency of sorts.
    - HenryBemis 8y ago
      +100 to that I quit coffee 10 years ago. Until then I used to drink 1.5 litres of coffee (0.5 for breakfast, 0.5 after lunch, 0.5 at 6pm). (Addicted-to-caffeine) People cannot understand that coffee is an anchor and not a sail. After the two weeks of mild headaches (deprivation/body cleaning up) I 'wake up' 5mins after I open my eyes in the morning.
- ar_lan 8y ago
  > 1.5 hours at the gym? Do you construct the equipment whilst there? I usually spend 1-2 hours every day in the gym. It's usually ~15 mins warming up, ~20-25 mins lifting, ~20 mins of some type of HIIT, ~20 mins of some endurance or sprint training (depending on the cycle), ~20 mins of skill work (olympic lifting or gymnastics), ~10-15 mins of stretching/rolling out. That's not an obnoxious timeframe.
  - movedx 8y ago
    That's a great level of training. I guess if you're focused on your health, and building on it a lot, by doing nearly two hours of training per day, 365 days per year, then it makes sense it takes so long... it's almost as if you're trying to improve in some regard by planning out your time and focusing on that goal and allocating time to it daily.
    - ar_lan 8y ago
      I should clarify, this is about 5-6 days. I realize I said everyday but meant that generally. I'm very consistent M-F, and typically Saturdays unless I'm travelling. I always rest on Sunday.
  - neuronic 8y ago
    No criticism, honest question: how do you recover? I go to the gym 3 times a week at high intensity, as much as I can manage, but afterwards my body simply feels "broken" for a day (in a good way) as my muscles were damaged during lifting ("Muskelkater" in German, muscle hangover haha). I need food and rest to recover before my next trip to the gym.
    - ar_lan 8y ago
      Hey! I think part of it is that I've worked up to this level over several years and have just always been very active. I get 8 hours of sleep every night and eat a relatively healthy diet - that is I hit my recommended proteins and fats, I don't overeat often, and I generally avoid processed foods. I think it was mostly just building up to this point of adapting to the schedule. Also, unless I'm training explicitly for some type of competition, I try to not go more than 80% of my max heart rate during most workouts, usually sticking around 70-75%, so I'm not dying everyday. For lifting, I generally follow a program pretty similar to 5-3-1, which doesn't really have you max out very often (it's extremely gradual, but I've made noticeable lift gains over time). If I really feel like crap, I just take a rest day or do some mobility work.
- p1necone 8y ago
  You seem to have zero time scheduled for "sit on couch and do nothing". I would have mentally broken down after only a few weeks on your schedule.
  - movedx 8y ago
    > 1800-2100: Commute home, read, work on fiction, spend time with wife Should I read standing up? :P
  - honopu 8y ago
    Some people don't want to sit on the couch and do nothing. It's something that a lot of people do, perhaps way too much, but I wouldn't consider it a requirement or given in a particular day.
- Cd00d 8y ago
  I'm not sure 0900 means what you think it means... 6p to 9a: Commute home, read, work on fiction, spend time with wife 9a to 5a: Sleep negative 4 hours And, assuming you mean 9p, I personally need way more than 3 hours from the exit of the workplace to relax and sleep, esp with trying to have a family dinner and get kids bathed and to bed. Even single I'd need more wind-down time, and before kids I'd need more togetherness time with my partner.
  - bebop 8y ago
    I think 2100 is what was intended.
- inscionent 8y ago
  So you have an amazing 15 minute commute, to two separate offices! Who could be so lucky? Don't eat dinner? When's the last time you ate a vegetable or solid foods? Full time is 6.75 billable a day I guess...but it sounds like you a phoning it in.
  - movedx 8y ago
    If you're incapable of negotiating a good rate and contract, that's on you. > Full time is 6.75 billable a day I guess I guess you're from America. We have labour laws and are nice to people here, ya know, 'cos they're important?
    - dictum 8y ago
      I'm not sure how you reconcile appreciating labor laws with belittling a fellow worker less skilled (or less able due to their circumstances) at negotiating with their employers.
    - thecatspaw 8y ago
      We have labor laws too here (europe), and they allow weekly work times of more than 40 hours, more than 8 hours per day. > If you're incapable of negotiating a good rate and contract, that's on you. Its either them. Or it could be that the job market isnt particularely well looking, or economy beeing on a down swing.
    - C1sc0cat 8y ago
      I am in the UK and I aim for ore than that as utilization rate
dominotw 8y ago
how are you showering at 7:30 if you are leaving gym at 7:30. is ur gym in ur home?,
- Eyes 8y ago
  Some gyms have showers. Lifetime, etc.
  - moccachino 8y ago
    some gyms have showers? some don't?
mandeepj 8y ago
> Wake up at 5:30 go to the gym (6 to 7.30) Can you go to the gym on alternate days? Sometimes, I don't go to the gym for the entire week; instead, work out at home for 20-30 mins - doing bodyweight exercises
- pattle 8y ago
  A good tip for saving time is to workout in your lunch hour if it's possible. I go running in my lunch hour as it has a high time:reward ratio which free's up a lot of time in the evenings or mornings.
plants 8y ago
This is a sustainable schedule. I have almost an identical schedule, but swap out startup with grad school work. You can do this without getting too burnt out for a while IMO. The days where you work after work are tough, though...

your-nanny 8y ago

and frankly that's a killer schedule already...

movedx 8y ago

1.5 hours at the gym? Do you construct the equipment whilst there? 1.5 hours to take a shower, eat breakfast, and get ready for work? Are you flying to Columbia for the beans every morning? I plan each day the previous day. Planning the whole week hasn't worked for me as things change, meetings move, etc. Instead I plan on a day-to-day basis. 0500-0530: Wake, Put eggs on boil, shower whilst they boil, dress after shower, blend Soylent lunch (M-F), kiss wife goodbye for the day 0530-0545: Commute to office 0545-0830: Work on business, looking at Trello for the current or next task 0830-1200: Commute to client's site and do work 1200-1300: Dine, read/research and or chores 1300-1600: Work for client 1600-1615: Commute back to office 1615-1800: Work on business 1800-0900: Commute home, read, work on fiction, spend time with wife 0900-0500: Sleep. Rounding the figures, that's about four hours per day on the business whilst working full time for a client (I contract.) Saturday and Sunday are either spent at social events or on the business in the office (if the wife is busy working on her own projects.) So I manage about 25-30 hours per week. (Just to be clear here, I'm not saying you're doing something wrong, but just pointing out those time lines could be a bit tighter.)

int_19h 8y ago
> 1.5 hours to take a shower, eat breakfast, and get ready for work? Are you flying to Columbia for the beans every morning? No, he's probably like a me and a good half of the population that doesn't naturally wake up early, so when we're forced to, we're very groggy, and it takes a while to get up to speed. If you're waking at 5am and don't find it taxing, you probably don't have anything to compare this to, hence your inability to empathize.
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- movedx 8y ago
  Oh, OK. Silly me.
- zemvpferreira 8y ago
  Unrelated to the main topic, I used to wake up groggy as well. Was a total mess for the first two hours of the day, the most you’d get out of me would be grunts. Then I quit coffee and everything changed. Coffee’s power to modulate your mood is wildly underrated. Try going without for a month and you will hardly recognize yourself.
  - Cthulhu_ 8y ago
    I drink a lot of coffee but don't really feel groggy in the morning. I did have a period where I did though; I suspect that may have been down to a nutritional deficiency of sorts.
  - HenryBemis 8y ago
    +100 to that I quit coffee 10 years ago. Until then I used to drink 1.5 litres of coffee (0.5 for breakfast, 0.5 after lunch, 0.5 at 6pm). (Addicted-to-caffeine) People cannot understand that coffee is an anchor and not a sail. After the two weeks of mild headaches (deprivation/body cleaning up) I 'wake up' 5mins after I open my eyes in the morning.
ar_lan 8y ago
> 1.5 hours at the gym? Do you construct the equipment whilst there? I usually spend 1-2 hours every day in the gym. It's usually ~15 mins warming up, ~20-25 mins lifting, ~20 mins of some type of HIIT, ~20 mins of some endurance or sprint training (depending on the cycle), ~20 mins of skill work (olympic lifting or gymnastics), ~10-15 mins of stretching/rolling out. That's not an obnoxious timeframe.
- movedx 8y ago
  That's a great level of training. I guess if you're focused on your health, and building on it a lot, by doing nearly two hours of training per day, 365 days per year, then it makes sense it takes so long... it's almost as if you're trying to improve in some regard by planning out your time and focusing on that goal and allocating time to it daily.
  - ar_lan 8y ago
    I should clarify, this is about 5-6 days. I realize I said everyday but meant that generally. I'm very consistent M-F, and typically Saturdays unless I'm travelling. I always rest on Sunday.
- neuronic 8y ago
  No criticism, honest question: how do you recover? I go to the gym 3 times a week at high intensity, as much as I can manage, but afterwards my body simply feels "broken" for a day (in a good way) as my muscles were damaged during lifting ("Muskelkater" in German, muscle hangover haha). I need food and rest to recover before my next trip to the gym.
  - ar_lan 8y ago
    Hey! I think part of it is that I've worked up to this level over several years and have just always been very active. I get 8 hours of sleep every night and eat a relatively healthy diet - that is I hit my recommended proteins and fats, I don't overeat often, and I generally avoid processed foods. I think it was mostly just building up to this point of adapting to the schedule. Also, unless I'm training explicitly for some type of competition, I try to not go more than 80% of my max heart rate during most workouts, usually sticking around 70-75%, so I'm not dying everyday. For lifting, I generally follow a program pretty similar to 5-3-1, which doesn't really have you max out very often (it's extremely gradual, but I've made noticeable lift gains over time). If I really feel like crap, I just take a rest day or do some mobility work.
p1necone 8y ago
You seem to have zero time scheduled for "sit on couch and do nothing". I would have mentally broken down after only a few weeks on your schedule.
- movedx 8y ago
  > 1800-2100: Commute home, read, work on fiction, spend time with wife Should I read standing up? :P
- honopu 8y ago
  Some people don't want to sit on the couch and do nothing. It's something that a lot of people do, perhaps way too much, but I wouldn't consider it a requirement or given in a particular day.
Cd00d 8y ago
I'm not sure 0900 means what you think it means... 6p to 9a: Commute home, read, work on fiction, spend time with wife 9a to 5a: Sleep negative 4 hours And, assuming you mean 9p, I personally need way more than 3 hours from the exit of the workplace to relax and sleep, esp with trying to have a family dinner and get kids bathed and to bed. Even single I'd need more wind-down time, and before kids I'd need more togetherness time with my partner.
- bebop 8y ago
  I think 2100 is what was intended.
inscionent 8y ago
So you have an amazing 15 minute commute, to two separate offices! Who could be so lucky? Don't eat dinner? When's the last time you ate a vegetable or solid foods? Full time is 6.75 billable a day I guess...but it sounds like you a phoning it in.
- movedx 8y ago
  If you're incapable of negotiating a good rate and contract, that's on you. > Full time is 6.75 billable a day I guess I guess you're from America. We have labour laws and are nice to people here, ya know, 'cos they're important?
  - dictum 8y ago
    I'm not sure how you reconcile appreciating labor laws with belittling a fellow worker less skilled (or less able due to their circumstances) at negotiating with their employers.
  - thecatspaw 8y ago
    We have labor laws too here (europe), and they allow weekly work times of more than 40 hours, more than 8 hours per day. > If you're incapable of negotiating a good rate and contract, that's on you. Its either them. Or it could be that the job market isnt particularely well looking, or economy beeing on a down swing.
  - C1sc0cat 8y ago
    I am in the UK and I aim for ore than that as utilization rate

dominotw 8y ago

how are you showering at 7:30 if you are leaving gym at 7:30. is ur gym in ur home?,

Eyes 8y ago
Some gyms have showers. Lifetime, etc.
- moccachino 8y ago
  some gyms have showers? some don't?

mandeepj 8y ago

> Wake up at 5:30 go to the gym (6 to 7.30) Can you go to the gym on alternate days? Sometimes, I don't go to the gym for the entire week; instead, work out at home for 20-30 mins - doing bodyweight exercises

pattle 8y ago
A good tip for saving time is to workout in your lunch hour if it's possible. I go running in my lunch hour as it has a high time:reward ratio which free's up a lot of time in the evenings or mornings.

plants 8y ago

This is a sustainable schedule. I have almost an identical schedule, but swap out startup with grad school work. You can do this without getting too burnt out for a while IMO. The days where you work after work are tough, though...