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My previous post, One Way to Spend a Day, contemplated a fairly structured outline for an effective working day. We reserved between 7 and 7.75 hours for sleep, 1.5 hours for exercise, 1 hour for dinner, between 0.5 and 1 hour for reading, and 2.5 hours to relax between dinner and reading, some of which can also be flexed into work time. Without flexing for any additional work time on a regular working day, this leaves approximately 10.5 hours for work. This is the largest block of time reserved for anything during the day. The window takes place from 5:00am to 3:30pm. It is this window which was not further broken down in my previous post which we will seek to dissect, and add only the right amount of structure to, in this follow-up post on working hours.
Effectiveness vs. Productivity
It is first worth addressing the fact that productivity and effectiveness are not the same thing. As a simple, extreme example to argue this point, imagine your objective in life is to build a rocket to get to Mars. You spend 10.5 hours of every working day working hard and getting a ton done at maximum levels of productivity, levels that most would consider impossible. You are an absolute machine, but you are building residential houses. You have built a system of leverage -- human, capital, and otherwise -- which has enabled you to build 100 houses every single working day. Your company is thriving, but you have no prospects of building a rocket nor getting to Mars. You are no closer to your objective than you were 10 years ago when you started working. You are extraordinarily productive. You get things done like no one’s business. But you are working on the wrong thing. You are getting the wrong things done. Management guru Peter Drucker defined what it means to be effective. He said, “efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.” Productivity is about efficiency. It is about doing things right. Still, you can be maximally productive while nonetheless remaining minimally effective. You are doing things right, but you are not doing the right things.
The Objective
Thus, my objective is not to be as productive as possible during the working hours of my working days. My objective is to be as effective as possible during the working hours of my working days. This may involve unproductive activities. It will not involve working at maximum productivity at all times. It will involve seeking to become progressively more effective so that I may approach maximum effectiveness overall, an objective which seems to me to be unattainable but, as much as anything else, worthy of pursuing nonetheless.
The Pomodoro Method (Taking Breaks)
I do not find it effective nor particularly productive to sit at a desk for 10 straight hours “working” as most knowledge workers at desk jobs have done for the better part of the last several decades. Rather, I believe it is more effective to strike a balance between bursts of maximally focused work and shorter, intentional breaks during the working hours of the working day. One popular method which offers a way of practicing this philosophy is the Pomodoro Method. The Pomodoro Method calls for 25 minutes of focused work followed by a 5 minute break, repeated over many 30 minute periods. While I have found this practice to be generally good, I have also found that it is often easier to continue working than stop and start again with a high degree of frequency. For that reason, my personal preference is to have longer stretches of focused work followed by longer breaks separating these stretches. I am still experimenting in this realm, and do not have a prescription for the practice as much as I do conviction in the philosophy and a few ideas for how to execute within it which I will explore in this post.
Eating
The most common break that people take during the workday is a lunch break. If you consider the workday to begin within a short period of time after waking, a breakfast break might also be included. It seems a sensible place to start would be to think about these breaks for eating -- specifically, if and when to take them, and how long they should be. For me, I have come to believe that eating less often is one of a few known natural keys to longevity, and I would like to live in accordance with that principle. Therefore, I will expect to eat 1-2 times per day, within a relatively small window of time if and when I am eating two meals. Skipping breakfast, the mythical “most important meal of the day”, seems like an obvious choice given these constraints. Lunch will be optional depending on whether I am hungry during the day. If I am going to take a lunch break, it will be after noon to allow for a minimal 17 or 18 hour fast assuming I am finished eating dinner the previous night by 6 or 7pm. I will also not eat a large lunch after 2:30 because I find that eating a lot within an hour before working out does not make for a good workout. So, lunch, on the days where I am hungry for it, should occur between noon and 2:30, and I will take at least 30 minutes for it, if not an hour. The whole hour of course would not be spent eating, but part of it may be spent cooking and cleaning up, and part of it may be spent doing other things that I can do during my breaks, like reading, or walking, which in particular seems to be beneficial for one’s blood sugar levels and overall metabolic health when done following a meal. This break, on the days where I take it, bring my working hours window down to a maximum of 9.5 or 10 actual working hours.
Break Activities
Since I am not leaving myself much time in the morning for activities that I have historically included as part of varying morning routines, I will seek to incorporate these kinds of activities throughout my working hours, during my breaks. It is admittedly hard to always be doing something, versus sitting around doing nothing in particular on my phone, surfing the internet or scrolling Twitter or the like, but doing nothing in particular on my phone is probably the largest bucket of time I would consider wasted, and so I will work to minimize it. If I want to take 30 minutes to scroll through Twitter or the like, I should allow myself to do that, but in a way that is intentional, not procrastinative. There are other ways to spend my breaks that I think are much more evidently beneficial. A few of those ways would be to meditate, stretch, do yoga, breathwork, use a foam roller, journal, write, or go for a walk. I will walk through each of these activities in consideration of what exactly they are and how long they might take.
Meditate
Meditation can be done in all sorts of ways and can take any variable length of time. I have historically meditated mostly for 10 minutes at a time, but I give benefit of the doubt to those who claim longer meditations of 30 minutes or 1 hour can be more beneficial. For a pure meditation, I think I would consider sitting and doing nothing to be the substance of the activity. There might be mantras to repeat or tricks to the trade, but the general concept is fairly straight forward, sit and do nothing.
Stretch
Stretching seems good and I do not do it enough. I have had chronic pain, especially in my back, neck, and hips, for the better part of the last few years. It has not been consistently bothersome enough to motivate me to prioritize its fixing enough to do things like stretch, eat better, go to acupuncture, get massages, do yoga, go to physical therapy, or anything else that individually or together might help me to resolve my issues, but this has long been something that I would like to be better about, aspirationally. Stretching has been at the top of my list as possible being the easiest, cheapest, and most effective single thing I can do, so stretching for 10 minutes or even an hour a day could be worthwhile. Again, there are plenty of stretches to do and any length of time I could do them for, but it seems like a minimum 10 minute maximum 1 hour activity I could look to incorporate
Yoga
Yoga is another thing that might be good for me but I would ideally include this in my existing 90 minute exercise window rather than doing it during a break. It does not feel like much of a break to me. It feels like exercise and work, so I will likely not incorporate it into my breaks. Again, there are many different ways of doing yoga and it can be done for any length of time but 20 minutes to 1 hour seems like the range and I have found it best to do under instruction from someone like Yoga with Adrienne on YouTube or a class with a Peloton instructor.
Breathwork
Breathwork is another healthy activity similar to meditation but more intentionally focused on the breath. I have an app that I have found useful and would like to start using it. The sessions range from a few minutes to closer to 20, so it is a relatively short activity and seems to be an optimal one for a break. I would definitely like to work in at least one breathwork session per day, during a break from work.
Foam Roller
Using a foam roller is another activity that I have found helpful for feeling good and mitigating pain. It does not seem like something that needs to be spent a lot of time on but 10 minutes per day seems like a good amount of time. This is another activity that seems ideal for a break.
Journaling
There are many ways to journal and it can be done for any length of time. That said, I have found just a few minutes of writing in a journal can work wonders for one’s mindset. I have most often journaled in the morning but if I am going to be getting up and getting after it, my journaling practice can be moved to another part of the day. Taking 3 or more minutes to journal during a break should be easy and worthwhile. I could even journal in every break or during multiple breaks as a way to reflect on the last focused work session, plan my intentions for my next focused work session, or write about anything else of the like. To start, I will stick with my previous practice and just take a few minutes to write in a way that is positive to help develop and maintain a positive mindset which I consider to be an invaluable asset.
Writing
I could consider writing in other forms beyond journaling, whether with pen and paper or on my computer or phone, but I find writing to be more of a long-form activity, and I am not necessarily looking to include long-form activities besides working in my working hours. For that reason, I will likely write at night and/or on weekends, besides journaling, and not consider it to be a working hours break activity.
Walking
I enjoy walking and have found myself feeling happier on days with many hours of walking involved. It is also something that I have found many successful people, especially those from previous generations, have done a lot. There are many things that can be done while walking. Many of these things were not doable 30, 10, or even a few years ago, like talking on the phone, listening to a podcast or audiobook, or dictating to a software transcription app that can capture what you say as well or better than a human could. Walking seems like a great break, and while I can walk during my exercise window when not running, lifting, or doing yoga, I can also walk during the day. Unlike yoga, it does not feel like work, it is something I naturally enjoy doing, and it does in fact feel like a break.
Water
I would not necessarily call drinking water an activity, but it is something that you do and something that I would like to do more of consistently. It seems to me that many are chronically dehydrated, myself included. The reason I do not drink as much water as I should is more or less because I forget to do it often and drinking all of your daily water intake in one or two sittings is uncomfortable if not impossible and probably not that good for you. The beginning and/or end of every break seems like a great reminder to drink water and so I will plan to drink a full bottle at the beginning of every break, refilling it after so it is ready for the next one. Refilling it also gets me up out of my deskchair and standing or moving at least minimally between long stretches of sitting seems healthy. There are many benefits of this simple practice of beginning every break by drinking and refilling a bottle of water.
Sunlight
Almost every break activity that I mentioned can be done anywhere besides perhaps stretching and foam rolling which might best be done on a certain kind of surface that is easier to keep indoors. Beyond that, walking, writing, breathwork, and meditation should be as doable outdoors as they are indoors, if not moreso (walking), and so I will seek to do these things outdoors, weather permitting, so as to soak up some sun.
Standing
I mentioned that getting up between long stretches of sitting and working seems healthy. This presume that I would be sitting for all of my stretches of work. That said, I have been effective working while standing in the past and I am fortunate to have a great standing desk to facilitate standing and working. Standing working sessions should be considered in designing my working hours and there may be some work activities that I find easier to do standing than others, so I should keep that in mind. Standing as much as possible without materially compromising the effectiveness of my working sessions should be a goal.
One simple schedule
As previewed earlier, I could experiment with many different lengths of focused working sessions separate by breaks, also of potentially varying lengths. Here is one way I could do it, based on all of the above.
5:00am - 6:00am - pomodoro #1
6:00am - 6:10am - water, 3 minute journal
6:10am - 7:10am - pomodoro #2
7:10am - 7:30am - water, 10 minute breathwork
7:30am - 8:30am - pomodoro #3
8:30am - 9:00am - water, 20 minute meditation
9:00am - 10:00am - pomodoro #4
10:00am - 10:20am - water, 10 minute stretch
10:20am - 11:20am - pomodoro #5
11:20am - 11:30am - water, 5 minute foam roller
11:30am - 12:30pm - pomodoro #6
12:30pm - 1:30pm - water, lunch + read, walk
1:30pm - 3:30 pm - double pomodoro #7-8 (3:00pm pre-workout snack if lifting)
The above working hours schedule would give me 8 hours of focused work, 120oz of water, a page in a journal, 10 minutes of breathwork, 20 minutes of meditation, 10 minutes of stretching, 5 minutes of foam rolling, a meal, 5 or 10 pages of reading, and a mile or so of walking. Not a bad day! All of this would be before 3:30pm so I could also get some great exercise in thereafter, a good and healthy dinner, some time to relax and do whatever I want, and at least 30 minutes of reading before bed. This seems like a great way to spend a workday, but it is easier said than done. I will experiment with this and perhaps other structures in the week to come and see how that goes. Other concepts to consider, some mentioned and some not, could be to designate certain working sessions as standing working sessions and to incorporate some kind of overtime concept so that I can continue to work beyond the hour of my typical one-hour pomodoro when I am in the middle of something and it is easier to keep going to get to a good stopping point or until I am done than it is stop and start again after a break. The counterargument to this concept is that it can sometimes be easier to start working again when you are able to pickup where you left off and already know what you are doing versus having to start something new from scratch. There is certainly an argument for flexibility in a schedule with less structure and variety between schedules of different structures. These are things I will keep in mind as I experiment and find what works best for me.
A few considerations worth noting as I considered crafting the above sample schedule were as follows. My breaks start small and get longer from 10 to 20 to 30 minutes until reversing to 20 and then 10 minutes before a longer break for lunch and a walk. There is a double working session at the end after a longer break for one final push prior to the end of my day as it always seems easier to push a little harder and “leave it all on the field” when the end is finally in sight. I also strategically placed the activities where it seems that they would feel most natural, journaling first thing in the morning, stretching after some significant amount of time at the desk, and meditating as a mid-morning break. We will see how this goes but that is enough for this post. Between this and the last, I feel I have written down a good amount to give me a starting place from which I can begin to craft a better design for my days. I may revisit this in the future, but for now, this is where I am at. Again, I hope you find this interesting if not directly useful and I will look forward to experimenting with this new design for my days.
My previous post, One Way to Spend a Day, contemplated a fairly structured outline for an effective working day. We reserved between 7 and 7.75 hours for sleep, 1.5 hours for exercise, 1 hour for dinner, between 0.5 and 1 hour for reading, and 2.5 hours to relax between dinner and reading, some of which can also be flexed into work time. Without flexing for any additional work time on a regular working day, this leaves approximately 10.5 hours for work. This is the largest block of time reserved for anything during the day. The window takes place from 5:00am to 3:30pm. It is this window which was not further broken down in my previous post which we will seek to dissect, and add only the right amount of structure to, in this follow-up post on working hours.
Effectiveness vs. Productivity
It is first worth addressing the fact that productivity and effectiveness are not the same thing. As a simple, extreme example to argue this point, imagine your objective in life is to build a rocket to get to Mars. You spend 10.5 hours of every working day working hard and getting a ton done at maximum levels of productivity, levels that most would consider impossible. You are an absolute machine, but you are building residential houses. You have built a system of leverage -- human, capital, and otherwise -- which has enabled you to build 100 houses every single working day. Your company is thriving, but you have no prospects of building a rocket nor getting to Mars. You are no closer to your objective than you were 10 years ago when you started working. You are extraordinarily productive. You get things done like no one’s business. But you are working on the wrong thing. You are getting the wrong things done. Management guru Peter Drucker defined what it means to be effective. He said, “efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.” Productivity is about efficiency. It is about doing things right. Still, you can be maximally productive while nonetheless remaining minimally effective. You are doing things right, but you are not doing the right things.
The Objective
Thus, my objective is not to be as productive as possible during the working hours of my working days. My objective is to be as effective as possible during the working hours of my working days. This may involve unproductive activities. It will not involve working at maximum productivity at all times. It will involve seeking to become progressively more effective so that I may approach maximum effectiveness overall, an objective which seems to me to be unattainable but, as much as anything else, worthy of pursuing nonetheless.
The Pomodoro Method (Taking Breaks)
I do not find it effective nor particularly productive to sit at a desk for 10 straight hours “working” as most knowledge workers at desk jobs have done for the better part of the last several decades. Rather, I believe it is more effective to strike a balance between bursts of maximally focused work and shorter, intentional breaks during the working hours of the working day. One popular method which offers a way of practicing this philosophy is the Pomodoro Method. The Pomodoro Method calls for 25 minutes of focused work followed by a 5 minute break, repeated over many 30 minute periods. While I have found this practice to be generally good, I have also found that it is often easier to continue working than stop and start again with a high degree of frequency. For that reason, my personal preference is to have longer stretches of focused work followed by longer breaks separating these stretches. I am still experimenting in this realm, and do not have a prescription for the practice as much as I do conviction in the philosophy and a few ideas for how to execute within it which I will explore in this post.
Eating
The most common break that people take during the workday is a lunch break. If you consider the workday to begin within a short period of time after waking, a breakfast break might also be included. It seems a sensible place to start would be to think about these breaks for eating -- specifically, if and when to take them, and how long they should be. For me, I have come to believe that eating less often is one of a few known natural keys to longevity, and I would like to live in accordance with that principle. Therefore, I will expect to eat 1-2 times per day, within a relatively small window of time if and when I am eating two meals. Skipping breakfast, the mythical “most important meal of the day”, seems like an obvious choice given these constraints. Lunch will be optional depending on whether I am hungry during the day. If I am going to take a lunch break, it will be after noon to allow for a minimal 17 or 18 hour fast assuming I am finished eating dinner the previous night by 6 or 7pm. I will also not eat a large lunch after 2:30 because I find that eating a lot within an hour before working out does not make for a good workout. So, lunch, on the days where I am hungry for it, should occur between noon and 2:30, and I will take at least 30 minutes for it, if not an hour. The whole hour of course would not be spent eating, but part of it may be spent cooking and cleaning up, and part of it may be spent doing other things that I can do during my breaks, like reading, or walking, which in particular seems to be beneficial for one’s blood sugar levels and overall metabolic health when done following a meal. This break, on the days where I take it, bring my working hours window down to a maximum of 9.5 or 10 actual working hours.
Break Activities
Since I am not leaving myself much time in the morning for activities that I have historically included as part of varying morning routines, I will seek to incorporate these kinds of activities throughout my working hours, during my breaks. It is admittedly hard to always be doing something, versus sitting around doing nothing in particular on my phone, surfing the internet or scrolling Twitter or the like, but doing nothing in particular on my phone is probably the largest bucket of time I would consider wasted, and so I will work to minimize it. If I want to take 30 minutes to scroll through Twitter or the like, I should allow myself to do that, but in a way that is intentional, not procrastinative. There are other ways to spend my breaks that I think are much more evidently beneficial. A few of those ways would be to meditate, stretch, do yoga, breathwork, use a foam roller, journal, write, or go for a walk. I will walk through each of these activities in consideration of what exactly they are and how long they might take.
Meditate
Meditation can be done in all sorts of ways and can take any variable length of time. I have historically meditated mostly for 10 minutes at a time, but I give benefit of the doubt to those who claim longer meditations of 30 minutes or 1 hour can be more beneficial. For a pure meditation, I think I would consider sitting and doing nothing to be the substance of the activity. There might be mantras to repeat or tricks to the trade, but the general concept is fairly straight forward, sit and do nothing.
Stretch
Stretching seems good and I do not do it enough. I have had chronic pain, especially in my back, neck, and hips, for the better part of the last few years. It has not been consistently bothersome enough to motivate me to prioritize its fixing enough to do things like stretch, eat better, go to acupuncture, get massages, do yoga, go to physical therapy, or anything else that individually or together might help me to resolve my issues, but this has long been something that I would like to be better about, aspirationally. Stretching has been at the top of my list as possible being the easiest, cheapest, and most effective single thing I can do, so stretching for 10 minutes or even an hour a day could be worthwhile. Again, there are plenty of stretches to do and any length of time I could do them for, but it seems like a minimum 10 minute maximum 1 hour activity I could look to incorporate
Yoga
Yoga is another thing that might be good for me but I would ideally include this in my existing 90 minute exercise window rather than doing it during a break. It does not feel like much of a break to me. It feels like exercise and work, so I will likely not incorporate it into my breaks. Again, there are many different ways of doing yoga and it can be done for any length of time but 20 minutes to 1 hour seems like the range and I have found it best to do under instruction from someone like Yoga with Adrienne on YouTube or a class with a Peloton instructor.
Breathwork
Breathwork is another healthy activity similar to meditation but more intentionally focused on the breath. I have an app that I have found useful and would like to start using it. The sessions range from a few minutes to closer to 20, so it is a relatively short activity and seems to be an optimal one for a break. I would definitely like to work in at least one breathwork session per day, during a break from work.
Foam Roller
Using a foam roller is another activity that I have found helpful for feeling good and mitigating pain. It does not seem like something that needs to be spent a lot of time on but 10 minutes per day seems like a good amount of time. This is another activity that seems ideal for a break.
Journaling
There are many ways to journal and it can be done for any length of time. That said, I have found just a few minutes of writing in a journal can work wonders for one’s mindset. I have most often journaled in the morning but if I am going to be getting up and getting after it, my journaling practice can be moved to another part of the day. Taking 3 or more minutes to journal during a break should be easy and worthwhile. I could even journal in every break or during multiple breaks as a way to reflect on the last focused work session, plan my intentions for my next focused work session, or write about anything else of the like. To start, I will stick with my previous practice and just take a few minutes to write in a way that is positive to help develop and maintain a positive mindset which I consider to be an invaluable asset.
Writing
I could consider writing in other forms beyond journaling, whether with pen and paper or on my computer or phone, but I find writing to be more of a long-form activity, and I am not necessarily looking to include long-form activities besides working in my working hours. For that reason, I will likely write at night and/or on weekends, besides journaling, and not consider it to be a working hours break activity.
Walking
I enjoy walking and have found myself feeling happier on days with many hours of walking involved. It is also something that I have found many successful people, especially those from previous generations, have done a lot. There are many things that can be done while walking. Many of these things were not doable 30, 10, or even a few years ago, like talking on the phone, listening to a podcast or audiobook, or dictating to a software transcription app that can capture what you say as well or better than a human could. Walking seems like a great break, and while I can walk during my exercise window when not running, lifting, or doing yoga, I can also walk during the day. Unlike yoga, it does not feel like work, it is something I naturally enjoy doing, and it does in fact feel like a break.
Water
I would not necessarily call drinking water an activity, but it is something that you do and something that I would like to do more of consistently. It seems to me that many are chronically dehydrated, myself included. The reason I do not drink as much water as I should is more or less because I forget to do it often and drinking all of your daily water intake in one or two sittings is uncomfortable if not impossible and probably not that good for you. The beginning and/or end of every break seems like a great reminder to drink water and so I will plan to drink a full bottle at the beginning of every break, refilling it after so it is ready for the next one. Refilling it also gets me up out of my deskchair and standing or moving at least minimally between long stretches of sitting seems healthy. There are many benefits of this simple practice of beginning every break by drinking and refilling a bottle of water.
Sunlight
Almost every break activity that I mentioned can be done anywhere besides perhaps stretching and foam rolling which might best be done on a certain kind of surface that is easier to keep indoors. Beyond that, walking, writing, breathwork, and meditation should be as doable outdoors as they are indoors, if not moreso (walking), and so I will seek to do these things outdoors, weather permitting, so as to soak up some sun.
Standing
I mentioned that getting up between long stretches of sitting and working seems healthy. This presume that I would be sitting for all of my stretches of work. That said, I have been effective working while standing in the past and I am fortunate to have a great standing desk to facilitate standing and working. Standing working sessions should be considered in designing my working hours and there may be some work activities that I find easier to do standing than others, so I should keep that in mind. Standing as much as possible without materially compromising the effectiveness of my working sessions should be a goal.
One simple schedule
As previewed earlier, I could experiment with many different lengths of focused working sessions separate by breaks, also of potentially varying lengths. Here is one way I could do it, based on all of the above.
5:00am - 6:00am - pomodoro #1
6:00am - 6:10am - water, 3 minute journal
6:10am - 7:10am - pomodoro #2
7:10am - 7:30am - water, 10 minute breathwork
7:30am - 8:30am - pomodoro #3
8:30am - 9:00am - water, 20 minute meditation
9:00am - 10:00am - pomodoro #4
10:00am - 10:20am - water, 10 minute stretch
10:20am - 11:20am - pomodoro #5
11:20am - 11:30am - water, 5 minute foam roller
11:30am - 12:30pm - pomodoro #6
12:30pm - 1:30pm - water, lunch + read, walk
1:30pm - 3:30 pm - double pomodoro #7-8 (3:00pm pre-workout snack if lifting)
The above working hours schedule would give me 8 hours of focused work, 120oz of water, a page in a journal, 10 minutes of breathwork, 20 minutes of meditation, 10 minutes of stretching, 5 minutes of foam rolling, a meal, 5 or 10 pages of reading, and a mile or so of walking. Not a bad day! All of this would be before 3:30pm so I could also get some great exercise in thereafter, a good and healthy dinner, some time to relax and do whatever I want, and at least 30 minutes of reading before bed. This seems like a great way to spend a workday, but it is easier said than done. I will experiment with this and perhaps other structures in the week to come and see how that goes. Other concepts to consider, some mentioned and some not, could be to designate certain working sessions as standing working sessions and to incorporate some kind of overtime concept so that I can continue to work beyond the hour of my typical one-hour pomodoro when I am in the middle of something and it is easier to keep going to get to a good stopping point or until I am done than it is stop and start again after a break. The counterargument to this concept is that it can sometimes be easier to start working again when you are able to pickup where you left off and already know what you are doing versus having to start something new from scratch. There is certainly an argument for flexibility in a schedule with less structure and variety between schedules of different structures. These are things I will keep in mind as I experiment and find what works best for me.
A few considerations worth noting as I considered crafting the above sample schedule were as follows. My breaks start small and get longer from 10 to 20 to 30 minutes until reversing to 20 and then 10 minutes before a longer break for lunch and a walk. There is a double working session at the end after a longer break for one final push prior to the end of my day as it always seems easier to push a little harder and “leave it all on the field” when the end is finally in sight. I also strategically placed the activities where it seems that they would feel most natural, journaling first thing in the morning, stretching after some significant amount of time at the desk, and meditating as a mid-morning break. We will see how this goes but that is enough for this post. Between this and the last, I feel I have written down a good amount to give me a starting place from which I can begin to craft a better design for my days. I may revisit this in the future, but for now, this is where I am at. Again, I hope you find this interesting if not directly useful and I will look forward to experimenting with this new design for my days.
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