Ok…the experiment I wrote about last week…yeah, it failed.\u00a0 Miserably.\u00a0 Got almost no writing done, and I wasn’t able to get up early hardly ever.<\/p>\n
However, I’m going to try it again.\u00a0 Part of the problem was that I always ended up staying up late, past 1am, even when I intended to get up early, and that just killed me.\u00a0 Also, whenever I did<\/em> get up early, I always allowed myself to get distracted by other important things, such as email, homework, etc.\u00a0 The predictable result?\u00a0 No productivity.<\/p>\n There were other problems too, however.\u00a0 It’s the middle of the semester, so the weeks are starting to race by like so much rushing water.\u00a0 I’m not the only one who feels like the last week was sucked out of my life without my realizing it.\u00a0 Also, before I started the week, I lost a lot of writing momentum by missing a few of my daily wordcount goals.\u00a0 I would write 2,000 to 3,000 words one day, the next day, nothing.\u00a0 Lost momentum can be really crippling.<\/p>\n When you write late at night, you tend to go through this routine of distracting yourself, checking your email, playing a game here and there, chatting with friends, etc, before you finally settle down to start writing.\u00a0 This is my current routine.\u00a0 I need to get to the point where I’m able to sit down, open the document, and get started.\u00a0 Or, if I can’t get to that point, I at least want to minimize the distraction time.<\/p>\n So, this week, I’m trying it again.\u00a0 I’ll try to get up early, 6am if I can, and get in at least<\/em> a half hour of writing each day.\u00a0 We’ll see how it goes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ok…the experiment I wrote about last week…yeah, it failed.\u00a0 Miserably.\u00a0 Got almost no writing done, and I wasn’t able to get up early hardly ever. However, I’m going to try it again.\u00a0 Part of the problem was that I always ended up staying up late, past 1am, even when I intended to get up early,… Continue reading Experiment, take two<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[141,120,140,42,46,95],"class_list":["post-437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bic-hoc","tag-daily-routine","tag-distractions","tag-frustrations","tag-goals-and-plans","tag-lack-of-sleep","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-73","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":438,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions\/438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}