The biggest problem with trying to reorganize is that writing tends to fall to the side. I need some time when I can concentrate and sit in personal-zone silence (meaning, I can be at a coffee shop as long as no one's talking to me), but when my life is a mess, I don't generally make that time for myself.
So my plan for the long weekend (which, since I only have Mon-Wed classes, means I have until Tuesday) is to work out a schedule in which I can:
- get my homework done reasonably and without extra stress
- use extra homework time to write
- get to the gym 3-4x per week
- schedule time dedicated to working on my freelance projects
- read at least one hour per night
- write at least a couple hours every day
- have time to spend with my husband
Pulling off that schedule would be a feat of the invincible. If I can work it out still come out sane on the other side, I do believe I should transcend to superhero status.
How do you keep yourself organized? How do you find time to write if you have a job/school?
5 comments:
Whew, your schedule makes me tired. Set priorities, I guess, and even if you don't get everything done, at least you'll have gotten the important ones. How did I write when I worked? Um...I didn't. :D
I just plug away and know if I keep making time for the important things (for me - writing, meditating, walking) I will have lots of energy for everything else!
Discipline is joy.
My life is always crazy busy too - I usually just try to do what I can when I can. :) Good luck with it all!
I think a new schedule is the VERY hardest thing on any side thing you are trying to do. It is always a mess on my fitness plans, but the writing too, I imagine would be rough.
I trust you will get it sorted out, though. Good luck!
I sat down and made myself a schedule yesterday trying to make sure I fit all the important things in. I've actually scheduled some writing time, but I've made a pledge with another teacher that we will write at least 100 words a day. It's so doable that I find myself writing at least a couple hundred words every night. It's the most regular I've been in a long time, but it definitely takes work to fit it in. I did nothing last semester.
Good luck on making it all work!
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