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A comment on Ask HN: What things do you wish you discovered earlier?.

Re:Ask HN: What things do you wish you discovered earlier? by leblancfg on Monday September 09, 2019 @03:24PM (#20921424)
You are the sum of your habits. I've always had "sort-of passable" ones, but they were never chosen by design, only by what had accreted with time. I had played with some systems and apps, but nothing had really worked until I took the time to write out in excrutiating detail what I would be doing for every minute of my morning and evening. At first I had to follow my schedule, but that didn't last long.

With the birth of my son, daycare, and a new job, I was finally forced to actually plan out a morning and evening routine. I wish I had done this in university.

Every day for the last 6 months, I have now a routine I don't have to think twice about:

* Woke up at 5 AM,

* Exercise hard, take a shower and have breakfast,

* Get to work before 7:30 AM with my day's tasks already in mind.

Similar for the evening preparing my breakfast, lunch and clothes. It's liberating to do these now without thinking. It took about a month, and my brain is now free to plan out the day or listen to an audiobook.

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Re:Ask HN: What things do you wish you discovered earlier? by Xplosiveoctopus on Saturday September 14, 2019 @02:37AM (#20969298)
Read and fully implement Getting Things Done by David Allen. It’ll free up your mind even more.
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Re:Ask HN: What things do you wish you discovered earlier? by ido on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @04:11AM (#20926065)
How do you get to work before 7:30am with a child? Does daycare start that early?

I struggle to get my kids up, fed, clothed and in kidnergarten before 8:30 myself (which means I can be at work around 9).

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Re:Ask HN: What things do you wish you discovered earlier? by leblancfg on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @05:04AM (#20926331)
My wife and I’s schedules are staggered. She takes mornings, I take the afternoons.

I don’t think the actual hours at which you start your day matter much, though. I find the value is in being constant at it.

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Re:Ask HN: What things do you wish you discovered earlier? by psv1 on Monday September 09, 2019 @06:40PM (#20923278)
Yes. Every time you take the low road, that part of you wins and gets a little stronger (even neurologically speaking). The reverse is true as well.
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