How makers stay productive

Morning routine:

• Wake up after usually dreaming what I'm working on, or the last game I'm in Stellaris (or whatever other game I play in that moment), shower
• Think of coffee
• Make coffee
• Drink coffee and work while thinking of the evening coffee.

Exercise: Just walks and dusting the passive bike after thoroughly feeling guilty of using it so rarely. From time to time actually bike.

• Wake up (7:30-8)
• Get kids ready for school
• Get a coffee (sometimes)
• Client meetings or Client emails
• Catch up on Social Media
• Client / Personal work
• Lunch
• Client / Personal Work
• Pick up kids from school, help with school work.
• Wash Dishes, Pick up House
• Make or help with Supper
• House Work or Client Work or Family Time or Networking Event or Exercise
• Put kids to bed
• Personal Work / Social Media / Emails
• Go to bed (12-1AM)

Gym - coffee - side project - 5 to 12 Job - side project - sleep

1. Make 7 cups of coffee with my own grounded beans.
2. Planning and reading email and checking social sites, freelancing sites, news media.
3. Eat oatmeal.
4. Start working on the item with the highest priority.
5. Go for a 5 km walk eating an apple. Alternating with running 7 - 10 km and Strength Training.
6. Work even more.
7. Reading a lot and listen to music.
8. Eat even more. Drinking Green tea.
9. Dreaming strange dreams where code plays a part in some strange plot, that I never fully understands.
10. Repeat.

Morning ritual

• Posting progress on makerlog (true story)
• Drink hot water
• 30 min Netflix

• Wake up (7-7:30)
• Shower, pray, coffee
• Catch up with social media (8:30)
• 9-to-5 job
• Back to home
• Pray, play with cat
• Work on personal projects
• Try to log tasks on Makerlog
• Dinner with wife
• Catch up on things with wife, Tv/Netflix
• Work on personal projects, do commits/pushs
• Bed (11:30-12PM)