Planning the ideal day
By: Ashik Shaffi
Tags: Planning, Blog, Journal, Beyourself, Writing

After messing up all the time every day, looking back I wasn’t having a rigid model of schedule to work on. Putting things out randomly doesn’t help instead led me to procrastinate more. So yea, I am here to write down the ideal day I wanted all my life at least for some time to get my mindset and body better.

Before jotting down, I gotta think and even work on the alternate scenario’s for instance, when there is a match at night how would I sleep? how would I plan my mornings?

First, lemme jot down different scenario’s I will run into so that I can plan according to them. Even if I hit the rock bottom at times I could review and make my way up.

Different Scenario I might face :

Normal worktime — Sleep at 10:30–11:30, Wake up at — 5–5:20 PL Match day time — Sleep at 1:45–2:30, Wake up at — 8:30–9 Europa League — Sleep at 3- 4, Wake up at — 9–10 (Arsenal Fan) Night owl time — Sleep at 7, Wake up at 12 pm — 2 pm

Alright done setting up the scenario’s let’s write down the important things I gotta do every day whatever the circumstances would be. These things should be done without fail, these are kinda gonna stick with time every day at whatever situations I go to. Take exceptions only when the situation is really worse. Still push hard my boy, you got this.

Default things should be done every day at whatever costs :

Write blogs every day no matter whatever it is. Remember the Don’t break the chain mate.

every day no matter whatever it is. Remember the Don’t break the chain mate. Exercise , not yet planned totally but it will be a mandatory one.

, not yet planned totally but it will be a mandatory one. Journaling every day, to organize my thoughts. Just spend less than 20 mins spit out the words every morning, the kinda mental model of what my day should construct them by writing them out for better execution.

every day, to organize my thoughts. Just spend less than 20 mins spit out the words every morning, the kinda mental model of what my day should construct them by writing them out for better execution. Read books every day, whatever the book I mean except Technology one. Morning hours mostly sit and read for 1 or 2 hours depends upon the day. Kinda 5–10 pages more than enough a day. Make it slow don’t overpull a lot into the day. The motto behind reading books is to improve me each and every day and read as many books as I can.

every day, whatever the book I mean except Technology one. Morning hours mostly sit and read for 1 or 2 hours depends upon the day. Kinda 5–10 pages more than enough a day. Make it slow don’t overpull a lot into the day. The motto behind reading books is to improve me each and every day and read as many books as I can. Machine Learning every day, at least 2 hours or even 1 a day should be spent daily on this. Everyday ML is a must, to get along with the topics, and building up the consistency is a must.

every day, at least 2 hours or even 1 a day should be spent daily on this. Everyday ML is a must, to get along with the topics, and building up the consistency is a must. Mindvalley or Personal Development Quest, spend less than 30 mins or so every day to finish one lesson per day. Don’t overdo it even if there is time, the goal is finishing up the 1 lesson that’s it. Keep it really simple and low don’t overdo that’s the rule.

or Personal Development Quest, spend less than 30 mins or so every day to finish one lesson per day. Don’t overdo it even if there is time, the goal is finishing up the 1 lesson that’s it. Keep it really simple and low don’t overdo that’s the rule. Academics, which is really an essential thing for the time being. At least an hour or 2 is a must, at whatever costs. My exams will be near any time sooner, I gotta be prepared at least 50% so that I can at least attend without any fear.

Alright, done with the default things that I gotta do without any excuses every day. These are like important stones in my life. Each thing could benefit me at the end of the day, only If I am consistent with it. That’s why even the time duration may feel less, but doing it daily adding up to a month looking back I would have done a lot.

Those default things will benefit me in the long run but look abruptly short at the time being. So done jotting down the default things should be done every day. Even the lists might look long if I could add up it comes to roughly 8 hours a day or less I am not sure. For each task, the time block is less but as I said it should be consistent every day.

Blocking down the working hours :

Well, this is a crucial one, here I will block the working hours for different activities. Mixing up all the activities and doing them at random time periods will mess the whole idea behind the ideal day. Every time block is depending upon the wake-up and sleep time. They can be altered with respect to that, rather than pulling out a default one for this will make no sense.

Normal Work Time :

This is the time period where I will go to sleep at a nominal time and wake up somewhere around 5–5:30. This how I want most of the days should be since it’s easy to manage and organize between these time periods.

Till 10 or 11 I will finish up my,

Journaling — 20 mins (Should be done as soon as I woke up)

— 20 mins (Should be done as soon as I woke up) Writing Blog — 40 mins or 1 hour

— 40 mins or 1 hour Mindvalley Quests — 30 mins or 20 mins

— 30 mins or 20 mins Books — 1 hour or 1:30 hour

— 1 hour or 1:30 hour Exercise — 1 or 2 hours (Cycling and weights)

If I start doing all these at let’s say, 6 then I would have 4 hours left, within the 4 hours I could easily fit all those in. It might look tiring or hard at first with time I hope it will be fine at least. The best thing is I could wrap up most of my things at the start of my day and leave the rest of the time for other stuff, which is plenty of time.

I think by framing the normal work time, we could apply this pattern to rest to others. For example,

If I wake up at 10 am, I will be spending the next 4 or 3 hours might minimize the time limit of certain tasks and focus on doing it rather than doing it perfectly. The goal is to achieve consistency, do it perfectly when there is enough time, but at times I couldn’t pull it then I could lessen the time period and alter it according to my need.

There should be flexibility and at the same time getting the job done.

For other time period blocks, I could apply the same thing but with different timings. Writing this out, I can sense a clear mental model of how I am going to tackle my day almost every day with this framework.

When there is more time left for the day, I suggest I work on something beneficial or go out freshen up my mind rather than stacking more work. Brining the ideology when to work and when to not is really important, the goal is to meet the default tasks every day, and the rest depends upon me.

Work when there is really a need for that, or else it’s fine to fold the day and do something to freshen up the mind. There might some addition or deletion onto the Default tasks list, might remove tasks which don’t help me or push them to normal tasks list.

Even might add tasks into it, depending upon the time and the circumstances but for the time being this is going to be the blueprint till I make a change on it.

Namaz is which I didn’t add up in the list, but it’s mandatory every day. I feel guilty whenever I miss my prayers but today I went up to the masjid and prayed fajr, I look forward to praying likewise every other namaz in the masjid as much as possible.

This could be kinda. relief for me heading out from the house and looking above the sky and get along with the people.

I started as a journal kinda thing, but I am gonna post it as a blog. The reasons are evident, that out there someone like me exists, with a bottle of muddy thoughts trying to find a ray of light that they could fix their life with.

This might give them a constructive idea or draw inspiration from it. No need of copying the whole but they could frame something like this. As for me after writing this, I could sense a clear mindset about what I gotta do at least.

I always believed writing things out is a powerful way to bridge between your heart and mind. In this way, new thoughts could bear out in a possible actionable way. I could at least tackle my day with this perspective of targets clearly fixed inside my mind.

Now I know the patterns, every day this might enrich deep within me. I gotta make sure to have a look or read this thing almost every day before sleep or after waking up, so I can remind myself I got default tasks I gotta work on and finish up.

Let’s put an end to this everlasting thing (1532 words), the connectivity between my brain and heart seems indomitable. If anyone reading this, I urge you guys to journal or randomly write out from your heart. You never know how your brain and heart connection might work and it works best for everyone only when you work onto connect them.

Have a great day! Remember you got this pal…

Like what you’re reading? You’ll love Buibui — Have you tried reading from there lately? Click here to learn more