Every weekend I my goal was to spend some quality time at my analog desk doodling and coming up with creative ideas. Lately I have doing this but the problem was that I had doodled ideas everywhere with no real hope or discipline to do them let alone finish up my existing projects.
Yesterday after one of those doodle sessions it occured to me how to handle my time and what to concentrate on. I immediately put it in practice and now feel like I can finally deal with time like I have been wanting to for a long time.
I broke it down to three main blocks of time. 30 minutes daily for learning the ukelele, 30 minutes of time on my Cinema 4D projects (this can go longer but I have at least to do 30 minutes). And 30 minutes for the treadmill while watching the endless amount of lynda.com tutorial videos. I am especially excited about this one because it kills two birds with one stone with two important things I need and have to do. 30 minutes on the treadmill alone has me watching the clock with time dragging and any time with lynda.com, even though I am interested, I fight sleep. I can’t very well sleep on the treadmill can I? Sure I can’t follow along with the tutorials while walking but I can soak in the info and it really makes the time go fast on the treadmill. Both days I have done this 45 minutes flew by and I am finally grasping ActionScript 3–win win.
Now every night with the exception of maybe Tuesdays since we are gone all night with Hollace’s lessons I plan on doing these three things. The rest of the time I can waste on FaceBook or Words with Friends if I want without any guilt.