Day 238 of writing every day.
Last week, I wrote that I came up with the idea of taking a different approach towards personal time management. What I had been struggling with for months was the intention to study a certain amount of hours every day and squeeze in gaming breaks between to “refresh” myself mentally. What looked to be a viable plan on paper turned out to be a disaster in retrospect. If I wanted to game, I just kept playing while telling myself I’ll make up the hours later.
Setting what I believed to be a high bar for myself was actually just an illusion. I allowed myself to escape and told myself I put enough learning if I spent an hour or more for the morning and the afternoon, and then ended up using the remaining time I could still have been productive with for gaming.
I don’t know if I’ll ever stop gaming completely, but it’s my preferred form of entertainment when I’m alone and want to avoid going out and spending money shopping or paying for one-time use services to keep myself from feeling bored. But feeling bored is a key part of learning and development of skills.
Rather than “rewarding” myself at a whim as I basically ended up doing in my last plan whenever I started feeling bored, I’m going to set a schedule like a real work day where I’ll just not game during the full-time 8 hour work day but allow myself time at night to play a little. It’s a good way to rehabilitate myself back to the workplace schedule once I officially start two weeks from now.
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