TIME MANAGMENT & STRESS

Time Management & Stress

Time Management & Stress

Question 1

5:30 am

Wake up (to birdsong and singing alarm clock)

6:00 am

Morning yoga class (postures, breathing, meditation) Class begins at 5:30 am on weekends.

7:00 am

Breakfast

7:45 am

Chanting

8:00 am

Group karma yoga (yoga of action)

9:00 am

Guests gathering to review activities for the day, discussion and setting of theme for contemplation

9:20am

Karma Yoga / activity / free time.

12:00 noon

Yoga Nidra (deep relaxation)12:30 pm

Lunch

2:00 pm

Karma Yoga / activity / free time.

3:00 pm

Afternoon tea

3:30 pm

Karma Yoga / activity / free time.

5.15 pm

Afternoon Yoga Class ( Friday, Sunday and Monday) Saturday - Mahamrityunjaya mantra.

6:00 pm

Dinner

7:15 pm

Evening program - kirtan (mantras to music), meditation, satsang (discussion), library, creative activity.

Question 2

My personal time log keeping experience is relatively short yet. I've started to keep a time log a week ago, and my first impression is that it made me more productive just because I keep a log. That is, keeping a log disciplines me, makes me think 'What are you going to do now?' or 'What are you doing now?' and I have to come up with answer that can be entered into the log, so I can't just 'do nothing', unless I consciously decided to get a break and do nothing for some time.

Right now I'm keeping a log using a .LOG trick in Notepad. If you create a file and put .LOG as the first string, then every time you open this file again, Notepad will automatically start a new line and insert a timestamp with current time.

I created a text file named timelog.txt, placed shortcut to it on the desktop, assigned a hot key (Ctrl-Alt-T), so, every time I need to make an entry, I hit Ctrl-Atl-T, enter the text, hit Alt-S to save the log and Alt-F4 to close it till the next time. It is lighting fast, because no mouse involved in the process and you do not need even think what time it is.

Question 3

At the end of the day I glance over my time log, trying to find some ideas how to improve my schedule and habits, and rename the file to timelog-YYYY-MM-DD.txt. After that, I clean up timelog.txt for the next day. I now think how to add categories to my time log and how to analyze it more efficiently. It can be better than just reading the log I think.

The problem that I've encountered ...