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Pro tip: my therapist told me to track my energy, not my time
Last month I was burning out hard trying to optimize every hour of my day. My therapist said to stop using timers and instead just note how I felt after each task. Turns out I was spending 3 hours on low-priority stuff that drained me. Has anyone else tried working with their natural energy cycles instead of pushing through?
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nathang679d ago
...and honestly that makes so much sense. I tried the whole time blocking thing and just ended up beating myself up for not matching a schedule. Now I just go with whatever feels right in the morning, some days I'm useless after lunch so I save the easy stuff for then.
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fiona_lewis379d ago
Doesn't it feel like we're all expected to operate like machines these days? We've got apps and schedules telling us what to do, but nobody asks how we actually feel while doing it. That mismatch between what drains us and what fuels us is probably why half of us are just running on fumes.
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