Time and time again we see articles
about how you should plan your day, what kind of routine you should have, how
much sleep you need or how little sleep you can work on, when you can eat and
when you should sleep.
It’s all too much!
Why don’t we peel things back a bit
and look at things from a more simple perspective.
In his autobiography, Benjamin
Franklin wrote about how he would try living his life according to the simple
schedule below.
"I enter'd upon the execution of this plan for self-examination, and
continu'd it with occasional intermissions for some time. I was surpris'd to
find myself so much fuller of faults than I had imagined ; but I had the
satisfaction of seeing them diminish,"
One of the most important things Ben
did was ask himself two key questions.
In the morning ‘what good he would
achieve that day, then at night ‘what good he had achieved.’
Perhaps most interesting is that he
never stuck to this routine himself. In the style of perhaps one of the most
narcissistic autobiographies ever written he explained that he was far too
important to stick to such a schedule.
“I
found that, tho' it might be practicable where a man's business was such as
to leave him the disposition of his time, that of a journeyman printer, for
instance, it was not possible to be exactly observed by a master, who must
mix with the world, and often receive people of business at their own
hours,"
Nonetheless, if you are sick of
reading all the different ways you can possibly make your day more productive
and meaningful maybe just give this a go. Ask yourself what you want to
achieve and what you did achieve, give yourself meaning and structure.
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