Stop making yourself easily available for people who don’t prioritize you.

• I think we just end up hurting ourselves over and over when this happens. At least I do. - Reddit Post Productivity

Time Management

Someone who doesn’t value their own time doesn’t value themselves.

From The 4-Hour Workweek, Two synergetic approaches to increase productivity:

1. Limit tasks to the important to shorten work time (80-20 Rule)
2. Shorten work time to limit tasks to the important (Parkinson’s Law)

I can get to a 100 hours of productive time, which is 14 hours a day of productive time.

I tend to waste on watching videos around 1 hour a day.

How to deal with wasting time: Just stop doing it. There are days where you just feel sluggish.

During those days, you must counteract that feeling, you CANNOT do things that make you feel even more sluggish. Like right after lunch, you feel sluggish. So you go to bed and waste 2 hours. That is so terrible.

Actually, you need to balance low focus work with high focus work.

Bottlenecks

There are quite a few bottlenecks that I need to learn to deal with:

• Eating is not productive time. And right after eating, when you feel sluggish, you just binge watch YouTube videos. Is there any chance you can turn this into productive time? Go take a walk at the park?
  • No, the solution is to be deeply invested in whatever you do. The issue is that you are balancing so many things at the same time.
• No, not true, saying “just don’t procrastinate” sometimes doesn’t work.

What you really need to figure out is how to organize your time such that you get the maximum effectiveness.

You need to think about it in terms of Willpower. Well, if you develop good habits, then these things become really easy. Like you don’t need to force yourself anymore.

Do the really hard things that you don’t want to do first, because that takes a lot of Willpower.

Quote

When you try to do everything, you actually get nothing done.

I need to become J again. I am too chaotic, I need to stick to my schedule. Because else I become disorganized.

Okay, I know why. It’s because this term, I am trying to wake up early. But then I sleep early. And throughout the day, I’m actually not that productive. I’m the most productive at night.

Schedule

Early bedtime

9:00-12:30pm: Grind 1pm - 6pm: Grind 7-9:30pm: Badminton / sports

That’s 3.5 + 5 + 2.5 = 11 hours, not enough

That’s basically what I’ve been doing this term. I’m like, I gotta wind down in an hour anyways. So I’m gonna chill. Wasting lots of time.

Late bedtime

Other schedule 10:00am-1pm: Grind 2pm- 7:pm: Grind 7:30pm-9pm: Grind 9-11:00pm: Badminton / Grind 12:00 - 2am: Grind

3 + 5 + 1.5 + 2 + 2 = 13.5 hours 13.5 * 7 = 94 hours

yea.. that was much closer to what I was doing.

The problem

I can’t do early wakeup, because then, I need an early nap, and that wastes a lot of time. But the issue is, I have to play badminton in the morning. So then it’s a must.

I guess if I get stuff done early in the day, then I became lazier in the afternoon because I’m like wow, I already did so much stuff. Whereas if you start your day later, you lock to catch up on the things you didn’t do.

So I will be night owl. Sweet.

Beating my old peak

The issue with my old peak is that I would still waste precious time after eating binge-watching videos. If there was a way to make this time productive?

• In the summer, take walks with my dad? But what i really want is to lock in the things that I’m working on.

• I don’t know, I just really really feel like lying on my bed and binge watch Beta Squad and sidemen videos. I don’t know how I can get out of there. It’s because I’m not in the right mindset. Getting off and once I am at my desk, then everything is good.

Early bedtime (modified)

8:30am - 12:30pm Grind 1:30pm - 5pm Grind 5-7pm physical health 9pm - 12:00am Grind

4 + 3.5 + 2 + 3 = 12.5 hours of grind

Reflection

This was an average week when I was at my old peak (Jul 17th - Jul 23rd 2023)

• My highest peak would be 98 hour weeks

This is current me:

• So I spent more time on academics, and I haven’t hyper-obsessed about youtube as much. And that’s because I didn’t have a video to ship.
• Social life is about the same

Alright, so basically, I need to treat YouTube like a full-time job again.

How to prioritize things

One idea is to use Covey’s Four Quadrant.

Time Distribution over week

I want to calculate how much time I have in a given week.

So I live 7 days in a week. $\text{7 days }\ast \frac{\text{24 hours}}{\text{day}}=168\text{ hours of living time}$

Take out $7\ast 8=56$ hours of non-negotiable sleep per week, $168\text{ hours }-\text{56 hours of sleep}=112\text{ hours of uptime}$

Calculate your non-negotiable needs:

• Eating (1.5 hour a day * 7 days = 10.5 hours) $112\text{ hours }-\text{10.5 hours of eating}=101.5\text{ hours left}$

Calculate your non-negotiable commitments:

• Gym (4 times a week * 2.5 hours/time = 10 hours) $101.5\text{ hours }-\text{10 hours of gym}=91.5\text{ hours left}$

• Attending class (30 hours) $91.5\text{ hours }-\text{30 hours of class}=61.5\text{ hours left}$

• Studying (20 hours) $61.5\text{ hours }-\text{20 hours of studying}=41.5\text{ hours left}$

Conclusion, you have $41.5$ hours that you can use to pursue passion projects! (dedicating all of this to YouTube)

Summary

• 50 hours for academics
• 10 hours for physical fitness
• 35 hours for YouTube a week
  • You can document these
  • 10 hours for design teams
  • 10 hours for research
  • 15 hours for Poker Research
• 5 hours for socializing

Every day, you should have ~ 14 hours of productive time. And this time should be spent on important things. Just because something takes a lot of time doesn’t make it important. Stop doing easy stuff like following courses, and actually start doing.

Forcing yourself to do YouTube makes it much better.

For other people

These people might want to spend more time on school $168\text{ hours}-7\ast 8\text{ hours of sleep}=112\text{ hours left}$ $112\text{ hours}-40\text{ hours of school}=72\text{ hours left}$ $72\text{ hours}-7\ast 3\text{ hours of studying}=51\text{ hours left}$ $51\text{ hours}-2\ast 7\text{ hours of maintenance}=37\text{hours left}$

2019-2020 Season

Looking back, this way of calculating was probably not the most effective. WEEKDAYS
Theres 120 hours per weekdays.
You need 35 hours of sleep per weekdays.
You have 26.5 hours of school per weekdays.

That leaves you with 58.5 hours of unfocused and focused commitment time per weekdays.
58.5 / 5 = 11.7 hours of unfocused and focused commitment time

Kurius: 1-2 hours per day expected
Memofood: 30 mins per day expected
Math competition: 30 mins per day expected

Take off 1 hour of transportation, 1 hour of eating, and half an hour of moving around for classes, EVERY SINGLE DAY, that leaves you with

11.7 - 2.5 = 9.2 hours of focused commitment time per day!!

Now, what do you do with this time?

Getting school work done: 3 hours per day expected
Reflexion: 30 mins per day.
SAT: 1-3 hours per day MINIMUM. You need to grind this for real.
Badminton: Average of 1 hour per day.
Cadets: Average of 30 mins per day.
Ruby hw: 30 mins per day.

WEEKENDS
Theres 48 hours per weekends.
You need 14 hours of sleep per weekends.

That leaves you with 34 hours of unfocused and focused commitment time per weekdays.

SAT: 4 hours a day
Aquantix: 5 hours a day