sleep enough

Reading this book right now.

Interesting ideas there: The Unschedule (scheduling not work but recreational activity and exercise!), The Guilt-Free Play, how to unlearn procrastination…

Update.
I have finished this book. Looks like I will really have to plan time for sleep! :) otherwise sleep is only “financed” with leftovers of my time, and “I’m not half a man I used to be” :)

Currently, I don’t sleep enough because there is always something to do in the early morning… so I’m lucky to go to bed before 4AM…

There is always not enough time because I come home late (sometimes 9 or even 10 PM). No surprise I want to stay up lately and then early.

I come home because I often get carried away by some activity at work, which includes web browsing, planning, doing some other stuff which only can be done in the evenings (I am an IT architect/administrator).

I do it, because I fail to properly use my office time to do things I really need, so there is always lots of things to do… Plus, having come late I have to leave late to keep fair balance for the company & myself.

I failed to properly use my office time, because to-do lists seem insurmountable. They are this way because I couldn’t drill them down to Next Actions instead of Tasks & Projects.

And so: Right now I have completed two books on personal productivity and have understood the importance of (Strategic) Next Actions. Trying to finalise now how to use IMS (see other ToDo thing) to easily track things – including on my PDA.

Once I’ll do that, I’ll for starters will aim on starting work at 11:00 AM, which will enable me to leave at 7PM and have the rest of the day before me.

This should in turn give me lots of quality time to spend at home, so by 2-3 AM I will be pleasantly tired and ready to fall asleep.

This is how it should be.

With so many things to do, my nightly activity peak and hatred for mornings, it’s no surprise that I almost never get enough sleep. I even know sometimes I should go to bed now, but there are still so many things to do and I don’t want to delay them…

Probably I’d benefit from 24 hour day with 12 hours sleep. Unfortunately it’s hardly possible to live 36-hours day and work. So I’m afraid so far I’m stuck with a hardly unusual day schedule… starting work past noon and leaving usually past 8.

On weekends if no measures are taken I would wake up in the late afternoon—and with a guilty feeling realise that I’ve slept over again and that I’ve got no options except may be go to the gym or spend another evening before computer screen or a newly bought 32” LCD Telly…

The goal here would be to start work between 10 and 11, making evenings more useful for me.