time management
throughout 2025, i've tweaked around and finally settled on a way to schedule my day. to-do lists always made me procrastinate, so i needed something to tell me what to do at what time. but making schedules intimidated me and everything would fall when i couldn't do the first task on the schedule (which is very common cuz procrastination). so i came up with 3-hour long premade slots that i would slightly adjust and fill in when i needed a schedule. 3 hours cuz i need to focus on one task for a long time and it's a good procrastination barrier. preset time slots cuz it doesn't overwhelm me in terms of how to divide time. may~octoberish, the slots have been smth like ~9:00, 9:00~12:00, 12:00~1:00 (lunch break), 1:00~4:00, 4:00~7:00, 7:00~. after october, i realized i usually have lunch at 1pm, so it changed like this: ~9:00, 9:00~1:00, 1:00~3:00 (break), 3:00~7:00, 7:00~
but sometimes i wouldn't really do anything during work times or procrastinate, just play around during break, and struggle to get into work after break. so today i decided to take a 1 hour coding break only if i managed to study for 2 hours in total.
idk how the paragraphs are related, but yeah just a lil note