6am - me+baby wake up, breakfast and coffee. 7:30ish - husband wakes up and takes over baby while I go for a run or do housework/work. 9am - baby takes morning nap, I work. 12-12:30 - lunch 12:30-4 - work 4-6 - me+husband rotate between child care, work, and making dinner 6-7:30 - dinner and baby bedtime routine 7:30-9 - relax/watch tv/putter around 9pm - bedtime 4am - baby's favorite time to scream for no apparent reason
Next, I mark each item with a color for “must get done today”, “must get done this week”, and “can be later”. I create a new column and copy in the smaller list of what o want to do today. I add in personal stuff like a run, weights, meditation, laundry, etc.
As a third step I make a rough schedule for the day. It’s just text with some times and tasks. I try to make it under-aggressive. As the day goes on I adjust and check things off.
It helps keep me from feeling overwhelmed and makes sure I get the important things done first.
* Meditate (10-30 minutes depending on how I feel)
* Light yoga/stretching + daily journal
* Whatever workout is on the ultra marathon training plan
* shower then get to work
* 1pm lunch
* back to work
* if afternoon drowsiness sets in then its nap time, if not, keep working
* cook & eat while watching some tv
* depending on how I'm feeling either get some more work done or just relax
* get ready for bed + read + sleep usually around 10:30. I like to sleep.
Sundays are for debriefing last week and planning the next. On bad days, replace the work with playing animal crossing, cleaning, mindlessly browsing the internet, and switching between online courses & YouTube
- 07:30 The first of 12 alarms goes off
- 08:30 Wake up, dress, get some water
- 08:45 Start working. Can never manage to get a lot of work done in the morning, so I usually slack off a little
- 12:00 Breakfast
- 13:00 Back to work. Usually somewhat productive now
- 17:30 Done with work, go for a walk
- 19:00 Dinner
- 20:00 Side projects or Netflix, depending on how tired I'm feeling
- 23:00 Go to sleep
After an hour or two I make breakfast (usually olive oil + egg + tortilla).
After 4-5 work hours I start to look at social media too much and take a break to make lunch / read personal email / nap.
Get back to work in the afternoon for meetings, take a break at 7pm for sunset walk/run/cycle. It's the best time to be out.
Finish remaining work hours then watch videos / chat with friends. if I'm not drained I might do some errands or work on my hobby projects.
I usually visit family on the weekends and try to spend some time away from a computer.
- 07:30 Wake up, breakfast, read news, herd kids, shower etc.
- 08:30 Set up/clean up office space. If not taking kids someplace, check mail, take first calls.
(series of never-ending 30m calls with WE, occasional full hour of actual work)
(next set of calls, usually MEA)
- 14:00 Back to calls or focus work
- 17:30 May or may not stop working, but won't take any more calls. Phase out by checking personal mail, unpacking any deliveries.
- 18:30 Second round of chores, herd kids some more (prep stuff, washing, etc.)
(occasional US calls)
- 21:00 Maybe YouTube or half a movie (PG-13 at most). Call relatives to check they're OK.
(more occasional US calls)
- 23:00 Occasional laundry (for drying overnight)
- 01:30 Go to bed (roughly 50% of evenings)
- 04:00 Occasional insomnia break, tea, fold socks
2 Sundays a week:
- 09:30 wake up, read The Economist, write a bit, clean the house (vacuum/washing/beds)
(Occasional calls with MEA because they work in Sundays)
- 16:00 get groceries delivered for the week, desinfect everything
- 18:00 read/write/post, fiddle with machines
Etc.
Wake up 1130, muesli, start work 1200.
Lunch late afternoon depending on hunger, about 30 mins.
Work until 2000 or 2100 then get some food
High intensity excerise for 30 mins, shower.
Then depending on energy levels either more work, side projects, or just browsing internet from 2300 to 0200.
Work from home till 5ish
If the weather is nice go for a walk.
Come back have bath.
cook dinner.
study for a couple of hours or work on a side project.
sleep, normally get to sleep around 1am ish.
It's a pain studying late but Ill have no motivation all day then it'll get late and I seem to be full of motivation so I can sometimes end up working on stuff till 3-4am.
Weekends normally involve sleeping till midday and drinking with mates.
6:30-8:00 Get kids ready for the day, drive them to daycare
8-17:30 Work (lunch jammed in somewhere for 15min. Sad.)
17:30-20:00 Dinner, family time
20-21 Getting the kid to bed (reading, etc.)
21-22:30 More work, since this is the only "quiet" time when I can get think-heavy stuff done without fighting back-to-back meetings and interruptions.
22:30-23:30 Another walk, maybe watch a show... anything to unwind
23:30 Sleep
Not at all happy with this. Too much work, and side projects and sufficient leisure time have been sacrificed.
* 1030-1130 wake up sleep-deprived to a series of alarms, pressing snooze until it's getting late enough to panic
* 1130-1200 shower, food, clothes, etc
* 1200-1500 morning meetings, emails, planning out what work needs to be done, light exercise, news
* 1500-1600 stimulants and lunch
* 1600-2030 intense work with all the stuff i queued up before lunch
* 2030-2100 write notes to myself for tomorrow, answer emails, send status updates
* 2100-0200 talk to family/friends, consume content, comment on internet, video games
* 0200-0600 try to fall asleep, but actually consume more content because of anxiety about work until passing out from exhaustion
Typical weekend is just sleeping until I wake up naturally, try to eat well, catch up on housework, mentally prepare for the week ahead.
Repeat until retired.
Mostly insanity, chaos, and absurdity though.
- Wake up ~7:30
- Feed dogs, water plants, make coffee
- Run ~2.5 miles from 7:50 - 8:20
- Meditate for 10 minutes
- Start work
- Take break at 11:00, exercise for 45 minutes
- Protein shake, resume work
- Stop work around 5 - 5:30
- Make dinner
- Clean house, do repairs, watch Youtube, read a book, bills etc
- Sleep by 11:00, maybe 11:30(my wife works 07:00 - 11:00, back at home ~11:40)
- 07:00/08:00 - wake up, take care of 2 kids (breakfast, clothes etc.)
- xx:xx/11:00 trying to work while watching kids playing around/taking care of them (chat/documentation/tasks/emails/programming), sometimes I work on my side-projects
- 11:00 - daily standup at work (kids knows that they need to be silent/calm at that time as I do it in the same room where they are (to keep an eye on them as their 5 & 1.5yrs old))
- 11:40/19:00 - working in separate room focused, with coffee/lunch break in the meantime (at home, with family)
- 19:00/20:00 - bathing kids, dinner etc.
- 20:00/21:00 - sometimes further work if needed, or starting family time
- 21:00/22:00 - family time, putting kids to sleep
- 22:00/23:30 - chill time with my wife
- 23:30/00:30/01:00 - working on my side projects
0800 = Check covid death score in my country and city.
0830 = Login as wfh and read mails and some productive working
1100 = Little walk from room to room. Or lie down a bit
1115 = Back to work and calls
1230 = 3 30mins calls back to back
1400 = 30mins lunch break
1430 = 2 30mins calls
1530 = Some productive working
1730 = screensharing trainings or resoving errors
1900 = Little lie down
1915 = Productive work for another 45 mins
2000 = Log off and take rest
2130 = dinner
2200 = Some YT & Hacker news
0000 = Still awake don't know what to do
0200 = Still awake wondering what to do
0300 = Still awake and expecting sleep to come.
0330 = Sleep
I hate this schedule. I am gonna have VitaD deficiency I think. Pandemic sleep deprivation.....
Forcful annual Leave on every Thursday as company expects this pandemic to be over by Sept End.
7:00 Our oldest has woken up and is playing in his room. We get up.
8:00 I get ready and start working from home. My SO, their mother, takes care of the kids.
12:00 I take a break to look after the kids a bit.
12:30 I eat in front of my computer while working.
16:30 I'm done working.
17:00 I take a walk with the kids in the forest while their mother prepares supper (if we don't eat out).
18:15 We eat supper.
18:45 I get my oldest ready for bed and sing him lullabies.
19:15 My SO and I watch something together, or do each our own thing, while caring for our baby girl, who has Colic.
23:00 Their mother goes to bed. I stay up with our baby girl. We take turns to sleep.
00:00 I watch Vikings while consoling her.
01:00 She feeds by her mother. Time to work on a side project.
01:05 I watch Vikings.
01:20 She's done feeding, and I bring her down in the living room again.
02:00 Can't follow the plot any more.
02:30 Data missing.
03:00 I hand her to her mother and go to sleep.
For workdays:
5:00am - Rise, burpees, breakfast, shower, shave, brush.
6:00am - Drive to work
6:30am - Work
11:00am - Lunch while working
3:30pm - Drive home
4:00pm - Cook dinner, put out clothes for next day, eat, walk, clean.
6:30p- Leisure (game, movie, drink?)
8:30pm - Read, tea
10:00pm - Sleep
i'm a startup founder/ceo with a wife and 3 kids... shit is hard. but, you can make it work.
i also try to work ~45 hours a week: https://github.com/yenio/handbook/blob/master/1-employment.m...
9:00 - first alarm goes off
10:00 - hopefully awake now, open laptop to appear online, shower
10:30 - try to eat something light
11:30 - first standup for 30+ minutes
2:00 - lunch
4:30 - second standup for another 30+ minutes, this meeting has lasted for 3 hours though
5:30-6 - keep laptop open to appear online but work has stopped
6 - watch youtube, read articles, play a game
7 - dinner
7:30 - games, exercise, leetcode, mock interviews, cleaning, whatever... lately mostly gaming but trying to get on that leetcode+exercise+mock interview train
1:00 - realize it's far too late and get ready for bed
2-3 - finally fall asleep in bed watching various videos because I can't fall asleep easily while under stress
07.00 Wake up
07.30 breakfast with family
08.00 take kids to school
08.20-noon work (95% coding, was from home before covid too)
12-13 lunch (at home, something quick). A quick walk or mountainbike ride if the weather agrees.
13-16 work again
16.00 pick up kids at school unless wife does
16.30-17 finish off work
17.30 make dinner
18-20 have dinner, watch tv, Grocery shopping, help with homework, Mario kart tournament with kids...
20.00 put kids to bed
20.05-midnight: Netflix, first person shooters, or personal side projects. Edit: oh also lots of old fashioned schedule TV!
8:30 to 9:30 - Catch up on personal chats, breakfast, hygiene, play with dog.
9:30 - 10:00 - check work mail for urgent emails. If no urgent tasks, take dog for walk
10:00 - 11:00 - dog walk
11:00 - 13:00 - Work
13:00 - 14:00 - Lunch and the odd errand.
14:00 - 17:00 - Work
17:30 - 17:45 - dog play break.
17:45 - 18:45 - Work
18:45 - cook and eat dinner
19:30 - Take dog for evening walk/dog park
20:30 - 23:00 - Flex time to do whatever, hobbies, projects, some gaming.
23:00 - take a melatonin and start getting ready for sleep. Take dog out for potty break before bed.
23:45 - hopefully fall asleep around this time.
6:00-6:30 slow process of getting up
6:30-6:40 meditate
6:40-7:00 stretching (against sitting)
7:00-8:00 walking outside, listen to podcasts
8:00-12:00 work ~ 8 pomodoros
12:00-14:00 gym (some days), breakfast, rest
14:00-18:00 work ~ 8 pomodoros
18:00-18:30 dinner
18:30-21:00 whatever I want
21:00 sleep
bath and quick breakfast
work from 9:30 till 6/6:30
inbetween lunch break from 1:30-3
evening tea/snack for 30 min between the meetings
Then I play some video games and take a 3-4km hike while talking to friends.
Dinner somewhere around 8:30
Then I waste time on HN, YouTube about anything and everything till I'm bored and sleep just before 1.
Weekends I do some household chores and pick a book on my kindle, currently reading Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life.
Although, this is when the project timelines allow me, when issues or deadlines pile up, my night times will be occupied and weekends will be filled with more work.
I'm actively trying to improve my lifestyle, but I feel I'm getting stagnated, and introducing new changes (workouts and yoga for eg.) are becoming very difficult and mentally tiring. I'm hoping you guys have some hack.
- try to wake up at 6-ish
- coffee
- try to put in good 2 hours of work before baby wakes up
- helping wife with the baby, breakfast
- try to put in an hour or two whole baby is in a good mood
- baby asleep, hopefully, another hour or two of silence
- playtime with baby or workout for self
- baby asleep or out again, another two hours of work
- preparing dinner for wife at 7-ish
- try to fit in another hour of work
- bed time before 10
4/7 days I swim 1 hour at 2pm and seem to stick with it.
Everything else is random, time for wake up, sleep, and 1 hr walks during the day or night can happen whenever.
I can barely read 1 page straight so most of my time is spent browsing and chatting.
Fri: 5am-3pm: hobby coding 3pm-5pm: nap & food 5pm-11pm: hangout
Sat-Sun: 5am-3pm: Hobby coding 3pm-5pm: nap & food 5pm-9pm: books, games, workout & hobby-coding
Though lately there's been a lot of internet fuckery like HN interfering with the productive things.
- Coffee, sometimes something to eat from the kitchen
- Lightweight (email, meetings, planning) work until lunch
- Lunch with the fam
- Development / design / planning work for the rest of the day (with some breaks)
- Dinner with the fam
- Chill
The last activity varies from day-to-day, though.
The rough schedule:
1100 - wake up, coffee, shower
1200 - breakfast/lunch
1300 - 2000 work
2100 - side projects/games
0200 - sleep
Before WFH I had a gym routine, some hardware tinkering and social time figured out.
quiet time for 2 hours, meditate on dreams
get started coding, work for 2-3 hours
go outside for a couple hours, up to 5 hours generally
code another however long until sleepy
this is for indoor life, outdoor is even less regimented
08:00 - 16:00 Work (sometimes more)
16:10 - 20:00 Home with family, go out, kids, etc Family stuff
20:00 - 24:00 Gaming/Side projects/Twitch/Netflix/HN :P
00:01 - 06:00 Sleep
Eat eggs or whatever I have around with a lot of milk and a cup of coffee.
Take a shower.
Read until I don't want to anymore.
Go to work until I am hungry.
Eat something, usually around 1pm.
Take a walk.
Work a little more.
Go somewhere to play music or sit with friends.
Shower.
Go to bed when I'm tired.
0600 Jog
0645 Coffee and breakfast w/ family
0800 Cold shower and get ready for work
0900 Start work
1100-1115 Coffee and snack break
1300-1330 Lunch
1730 End work
1800 onwards: read, watch TV, dinner, family time, relax etc.
This is my schedule for the last 4 months since I started work from home.
- work from home in my pajamas (I love it)
- drink 1 Coca Cola Vanilla after work
- cook and eat
- follow my curiosity online + work on sideprojects
- talk with friends/loved ones until I fall asleep
- repeat
6:45 - start working
10:45 - end the workday and get some weight lifting in
11:30 - hot tub
12:00 - eat lunch
12:30 - write
1:30 - work on learning something new
4:30 - take a walk
5:00 - bath and reading
6:00 - dinner
6:30 - hang out with spouse
9:00 - video games
10:00 - bed time
- Work from 9 - 11 am
- Go for a walk
- Work from 11:30-12-30
- Lunch .. go to store and buy it
- 1 - 5 work with going out for fresh air every hour
- 6-7 Try to jog
- 8-11 drink beer/other leisure
- 11 - 1 am bed time routine
- breakfast with my parents
- work till 2pm
- nap 20 minutes
- work till 5pm
- exercise (alternating between weights, sprints, yoga)
- recently deleted all my videogames, so reading or piano
- side code, paid courses or books
- sleep
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Mon - Fri
* 0600 - 0630 -- Wake up. Coffee or Tea, either at home via Moka pot, or walk to one of the local places (depends on weather, opening, COVID, etc.). Usually a light breakfast, usually whatever is in the fridge (e.g. 1/2 cup yogurt + oatmeal, or couple slices of toast + peanutbutter, etc.)
* 0700 - 1500 (9-5 EDT). Work. Schedule varies based on projects and workflow, but usually a couple of quiet hours first thing in the morning, with tons of meetings in the afternoons (when the California crowd starts coming in to the office).
* Grab a shower anytime I can snag 15 minutes away
* 1000-1100 -- Try to get something that resembles lunch at 10-11am (12-1300 EDT), usually walk to something nearby that's open; lots more delivery these days due to COVID.
* ~1400-1500 -- Clock out of work, chill out around the house and decompress for a minute. Usually try to knock out any chores that have to be done during business hours (banking, etc.).
* 1500-1700 -- Workout / gym, depending on when I can get there. Gyms have re-opened, but require a booked time slot and are only good for 1 hour -- and that's fine, pretty much what I did pre-COVID.
* Usually hit the grocery store on the way back from the gym -- it's right next door.
* 1800-1900 -- Dinner. Try to stick to mostly protein & veg in the evenings, since lots of carbs at dinner keep me up. Maybe 1-2 alcoholic drinks depending on how I feel, but not common (maybe 1-3 drinks a week, tops).
* 1800-2200 -- Evening activities: watch netflix, putz around w/ projects, now that Steam is on Linux do some light gaming
* Aim to be in bed by 2200 (10pm), going to sleep before 2230.
Sat-Sunday
* Saturday is my busy day, wake up early for volunteer work. If that's not going on I'm usually up at 9 and putz around playing games and drinking coffee. If I didn't hang out w/ friends on Friday then usually on Saturday.
* Lazy Sundays, usually. Household chores as needed.
Any Day / Weekly
* No pets or kids, only plants. I water plants once a week, generally on weekends. The hydroponic systems get replenished as needed.
* Laundry on Wednesdays and Sundays, usually as needed
* Dishes usually every 2-3 days. I feel like I should be more diligent about it but usually it's a couple days at a stretch until I can't stand looking at it.
* Try to do yard work at least once or twice a month on weekends
* Try to get to the shooting range once a month when the weather permits; hunting and processing game as needed during the appropriate seasons.
* Usually trips to the mountains / parks during summer and shoulder seasons; skiing and skating during the winter. Usually try for once a month, sometimes more. Got a kayak a few months back and have been on the lake every week this summer
* Try to fly out to visit the family at least once or twice a year. Skype/Hangouts call w/ the fam usually every week or every other week. COVID has changed this -- no travel this year, me thinks -- but still doing the skype calls.