I woke up at 7:30AM because of a bad tummy. Went to the toilet. Then went back to bed. I couldn't immediately fall back into sleep so my mind was still active, thinking of the things I need to do today. Then I remember Mico's alarm went off at 8:30AM. So at this time my brain was still awake but almost ready to doze off because next thing I knew, Mico kissed me goodbye at around 9:00AM.
Then I woke up at 10:48AM. I just stayed in bed, rolled around, and refusing to get up. When I finally felt guilty of being unproductive and lazy after doom scrolling on my phone, I decided to get up. It was almost noon. Ugh. An hour wasted. Ick. Got up, fixed the bed, opened the blinds, got my sink shower paraphernalia, and went to the sink to wash my hair. Yep. I wash my hair in the sink on days where I don't want to do a full body shower. A work colleague of mine used to tease me that I'm like a cat - I don't like getting wet. Well, there's some truth to that I guess 😅
After that ordeal of washing the hair and face and and pits and feet in the sink, went to the toilet to wash and soap my V and B (oooh, like the initials of Vic Beck). Then did my AM skincare routine, prepared coffee, and at 2PM, I'm in front of my computer ready to work.
Wow. It took me almost three hours upon waking up to start working. That's an AWFULLY LONG TIME. Okay, let's review where my chokepoints are.
1. The time difference between waking up and getting up: one hour. Fuck. This needs to be addressed. Let's try to decrease this time difference to, hmmm, part of me wants to take a drastic cut, like 15mins. But a part of me also doesn't want to shock myself. So... hmmm.. let's do 30 MINUTES. Let's get up within 30mins after waking up.
2. The sink shower method takes up more time than the usual in-shower shower. I can hear Mico right now in my head telling me that I'm being inefficient with the sink shower 😂 He kept on telling me about this but really, I just don't want my body getting wet 😂😂😂 except of course, when it's swimming time. I love swimming. But anyway, how do we remedy this? I could try ways removing some steps... but I'm not sure what steps... Or you know what, maybe this sink shower method is here to stay. I mean, I just do this like once or twice a week. The rest are in-shower showering. So I guess for today, it just took longer because I needed to do the sink shower.
Other than these two, I don't see any chokepoints remaining. I guess the task that took the most time was the shower. It took me almost two hours to do that shit. That's a very long time. WTF. Maybe because I was taking my time in shampooing and conditioning my hair? Also, I did a hair leave-in treatment so that's why it took long. But two hours??? Man, that's a lot of time.
I should really be more conscious of the time I allot for my tasks. For the mundane ones, I don't feel they take long, but they actually do! Ugh. I should be mindful of this. When I work on assignments and research projects, I feel they take sooooo long, but I've only been at it for two to four hours. Perhaps I feel this because my brain consumes a lot of energy and effort when I need to concentrate on something, versus when I am on autopilot doing mundane things. Time goes by but I don't feel exhausted because the brain doesn't need to engage so much, compared to when I'm thinking. Time still passes but I notice everything really clearly. Hmmm... interesting.
Well, lesson learned for today is to be more efficient with time by tracking time vis-a-vis daily tasks. I've read something about the time blocking technique. I used to do this when I was in ANU, tried to revive it in the start of my PhD in 2021. I had a hard time following it and I'm not sure if I became more efficient. Anyway, we can try it one more time and try to be more mindful of what I'm doing.
Until then,
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