Title: Free time partitionning | |
Author: Solène | |
Date: 06 January 2021 | |
Tags: life | |
Description: | |
Lately I wanted to change the way I use my free time. I define my free | |
time as: not working, not sleeping, not eating. So, I estimate it to | |
six hours a day in work day and fourteen hours in non worked day. | |
With the year 2020 being quite unusual, I was staying at home most of | |
the time without seeing the time passing. At the end of the year, I | |
started to mix the duration of weeks and months which disturbed me a | |
lot. | |
For a a few weeks now, I started to change the way I spend my free | |
time. I thought it was be nice to have a few separate activies in the | |
same day to help me realizing how time is passing by. | |
# Activity list | |
Here is the way I chose to distribute my free time. It's not a strict | |
approach, I measure nothing. But I try to keep a simple ratio of 3/6, | |
2/6 and 1/6. | |
## Recreation: 3/6 | |
I spend a lot of time in recreation time. A few activies I've put into | |
recreation: | |
* video games | |
* movies | |
* reading novels | |
* sports | |
## Creativity: 2/6 | |
Those activies requires creativy, work and knowledge: | |
* writing code | |
* reading technical books | |
* playing music | |
* creating content (texts, video, audio etc..) | |
## Chores: 1/6 | |
Yes, obviously this has to be done on free time... And it's always | |
better to do it a bit everyday than accumulating it until you are | |
forced to proceed. | |
# Conclusion | |
I only started for a few weeks now but I really enjoy doing it. As I | |
said previously, it's not something I stricly apply, but more a general | |
way to spend my time and not stick for six hours writing code in a row | |
from after work to going to sleep. I really feel my life is better | |
balanced now and I feel some accomplishments for the few activies done | |
every day. | |
# Questions / Answers | |
> Some asked asked me if I was planning in advance how I spend my time. | |
The answer is no. I don't plan anything but when I tend to lose focus | |
on what I'm doing (and this happen often), I think about this time | |
repartition method and then I think it may be time to jump on another | |
activity and I pick something in another category. Now I think about | |
it, that was very often that I was doing something because I was bored | |
and lacking idea of activities to occupy myself, with this current list | |
I no longer have this issue. |