Let's get practical #2: Deep Work & Organization

[Raphael]

07 May 2020

• Wake Up Time: 07:00 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM)
• In Bed Time: 10:35 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM)

Work Sessions:

• No work for today

 

I didn't work at all today. I didn't sleep correctly and I didn't want to do anything, so I just spent time bullshitting on the internet and doing nothing most of the time. Maybe it was because I did a pretty powerful breathwork session on Wednesday and because I had a long talk with Nahm, so I had ideas that I needed to integrate, which I didn't do properly because I distracted myself too much.

• Total Work Duration: 0 minutes (objective at least 6 hours)
• Total Reading Time: 34 minutes (objective 30 minutes - 1 hour)

Edited May 7, 2020 by Raphael

[Raptorsin7]

@Raphael Great post on love vs discipline.

So much truth. Love and you will never have to worry about discipline.

[Raphael]

@Raptorsin7

Thanks

[Raphael]

08 May 2020

• Wake Up Time: 06:33 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM)
• In Bed Time: 09:05 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM)

Work Sessions:

• 01:35 PM - 02:43 PM: I searched for new clients online and sent a few proposals. I got an answer. Work Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes
• 02:50 PM - 03:56 PM: I continued my quest to find new clients and sent a few more proposals. Work Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes

Deep Work Sessions:

• 08:58 AM - 09:45 AM: I did some project planning for the front-end part of the application. Deep Work Duration: 47 minutes
• 10:15 AM - 10:38 AM: I planned new tasks for the API development. Deep Work Duration: 23 minutes
• 10:43 AM - 11:38 AM: I started the API development for the statistics, but paused it because I noticed that I did the steps in the wrong order. Deep Work Duration: 55 minutes
• 11:43 AM - 12:38 AM: I created the route to create new statistics dashboards and corrected the previous work. I also did a pull request and merged it to the 0.4 branch. Deep Work Duration: 55 minutes
• 04:16 PM - 05:15 PM: I worked on some update functions. Deep Work Duration: 59 minutes

 

• Total Work Duration: 6 hours 13 minutes, including 3 hours 59 minutes of Deep Work (objective at least 6 hours)
• Total Reading Time: 31 minutes (objective 30 minutes - 1 hour)

Edited May 8, 2020 by Raphael

[Raphael]

09 May 2020

• Wake Up Time: 05:58 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM)
• In Bed Time: 09:06 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM)

Work Sessions:

• 01:37 PM - 02:40 PM: I searched for clients online. Work Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes

Deep Work Sessions:

• 10:23 AM - 11:43 AM: I wanted to add some custom validations on the mongoose model, but I got some errors. I asked a question on Stack Overflow and did other corrections. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes
• 11:50 AM - 12:19 AM: I updated the validation function, but I will still need to figure out how to activate it on updateOne. Deep Work Duration: 29 minutes

It seems like each productive day that I have is followed by an unproductive day where I have a backslash. Even though I wake up early today, I took a lot of time to get started. I procrastinated a lot on the internet and in the afternoon I got completely seduced and spend all remaining the time watching video game lives on twitch.

• Total Work Duration: 2 hours 52 minutes, including 2 hours 49 minutes of Deep Work (objective at least 6 hours)
• Total Reading Time: 30 minutes (objective 30 minutes - 1 hour)

Edited May 9, 2020 by Raphael

[Raphael]

10 May 2020

• Wake Up Time: 06:00 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM)
• In Bed Time: 09:00 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM)

Deep Work Sessions:

• 02:22 PM - 03:26 PM: I reported notes from a book to my commonplace book. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes

I need to put more attention when reading. I read a little too mindlessly and too fast, I need to take time to analyze details and take notes.

• Total Work Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes, including 1 hour 20 minutes of Deep Work (objective 0 minutes)
• Total Reading Time: 0 minutes (objective 0 minutes)

Edited May 10, 2020 by Raphael

[Raphael]

11 May 2020

• Wake Up Time: 06:41 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM)
• In Bed Time: 09:10 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM)

Work Sessions:

• 01:52 PM - 02:18 PM: I searched for clients, sent a proposal, and get a positive answer a few minutes after. I'm now going the start the client's work. Work Duration: 26 minutes

Deep Work Sessions:

• 09:40 AM - 10:36 AM: I completed the validations for the update API, did a pull request, and merged it. Deep Work Duration: 56 minutes
• 10:58 AM - 12:04 AM: I created a new service and set it up on the application startup. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes
• 12:11 AM - 12:56 AM: I found out a bug on the backend. I tried to resolve it, but I got confused. I had a lot of parasites thoughts that didn't help me. Deep Work Duration: 45 minutes
• 02:25 PM - 04:03 PM: I designed the header for the client's widget. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 38 minutes
• 04:18 PM - 05:27 PM: I continued the work for the client. Positioning some icons is giving me some difficulties. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes
• 05:40 PM - 06:51 PM: I completed the work and sent it to the client. I hope I'll like it. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes

 

• Total Work Duration: 6 hours 15 minutes, including 5 hours 49 minutes of Deep Work (objective at least 6 hours)
• Total Reading Time: 0 minutes (objective 30 minutes - 1 hour)

[Raphael]

12 May 2020

• Wake Up Time: 06:00 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM)
• In Bed Time: 09:14 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM)

Work Sessions:

• 08:40 AM - 10:13 AM: I responded to a client, read some emails, created a portfolio, and took an English test. Work Duration: 1 hour 33 minutes
• 04:00 PM - 04:45 PM: I analyzed a Wordpress website and sent a mail report to another client. Work Duration: 45 minutes

Deep Work Sessions:

• 10:33 AM - 12:26 AM: I created another template for the same client and sent him the work. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 53 minutes
• 01:35 PM - 03:25 PM: I started to work on another template. I got interrupted by a phone call at a moment. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 50 minutes
• 03:36 PM - 03:56 PM: I finished the other template and sent it to the client. Deep Work Duration: 20 minutes

 

• Total Work Duration: 6 hours 25 minutes, including 4 hours 3 minutes of Deep Work (objective at least 6 hours)
• Total Reading Time: 35 minutes (objective 30 minutes - 1 hour)

Edited May 12, 2020 by Raphael

[Raphael]

13 May 2020

• Wake Up Time: 06:00 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM)
• In Bed Time: 09:30 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM)

Work Sessions:

• No work for today

 

• Total Work Duration: 0 minutes (objective 0 minutes)
• Total Reading Time: 0 minutes (objective 0 minutes)

[Raphael]

14 May 2020

• Wake Up Time: 06:00 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM)
• In Bed Time: ~ 09:10 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM)

Deep Work Sessions:

• 08:40 AM - 09:16 AM: I corrected an issue on my project backend API. Deep Work Duration: 36 minutes
• 09:21 AM - 09:58 AM: I created an error modal, created a pull request, and merged it. Deep Work Duration: 37 minutes
• 10:21 AM - 11:43 AM: I corrected a bug, added some icons, and created the transitions. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 22 minutes
• 11: 53 AM - 12:54 AM: I did some HTML & CSS work. I got interrupted by thoughts sometimes and also a car outside. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 1 minute
• 02:07 PM - 03:26 PM: I continued the HTML & CSS design. I encountered some issues with the choice of colors, shadows, and borders. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 19 minutes
• 03:56 PM - 05:02 PM: I completed the design and did an API call. However, I realized that I did some mistakes on the backend that I will have to correct. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes

My reading time will be at 0 minutes for an unknown number of days until I find another book to read. I just finished Deep Work, I now need some time to properly integrate its lessons.

• Total Work Duration: 6 hours 1 minute, including 4 hours 3 minutes of Deep Work (objective at least 6 hours)
• Total Reading Time: 0 minutes (objective 30 minutes - 1 hour)

Edited May 14, 2020 by Raphael

[Raphael]

15 May 2020

• Wake Up Time: 05:19 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM)
• In Bed Time: 09:00 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM)

Work Sessions:

• 10:51 PM - 11:13 PM: I had a call with a client and I also presented him my personal project. He said that he has investors that could finance my project. Work Duration: 22 minutes
• 01:11 PM - 01:38 PM: I finished the PAW tutorial and did a few research. Work Duration: 27 minutes

Deep Work Sessions:

• 08:41 AM - 09:45 AM: The API that I thought yesterday was bad is actually correct, but I wanted to restructure it in another way, so I did it. I also correctly integrated the call from the front-end, and I finally created two pull requests that I merged. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes
• 10:02 AM - 10:51 AM: I added an external API and did some setup. Deep Work Duration: 49 minutes
• 11:21 AM - 12:13 AM: I started following a new tutorial on Progressive Web Applications with Angular. Deep Work Duration: 52 minutes
• 01:44 PM - 02:56 PM: I got back on my personal project and found a very strange bug. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 12 minutes
• 03:06 PM - 04:39 PM: Damn that bug is hard, I still didn't figure out how to fix it. It has something to do with the SameSite attribute when sending cookies from the backend. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 33 minutes

 

• Total Work Duration: 6 hours 19 minutes, including 5 hours 30 minutes of Deep Work (objective at least 6 hours)
• Total Reading Time: 0 minutes (objective 0 minutes, I'm not reading anything currently)

[Raphael]

16 May 2020

• Wake Up Time: 06:30 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM)
• In Bed Time: 10:20 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM)

Work Sessions:

• 08:39 AM - 09:51 AM: I did some research on PWAs and Ionic, responded to a potential client, and searched for an eCommerce template. I distracted myself at a moment in the middle. Work Duration: 1 hour 12 minutes
• 03:48 PM - 04:28 PM: I searched for new clients and sent a proposal. Work Duration: 40 minutes

Deep Work Sessions:

• 10:21 AM - 11:42 AM: The bug that I had yesterday is independent of me because I'm using a third-party API. Aside from that, I continued my HTML/CSS design. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 21 minutes
• 11:51 AM - 12:36 AM: I'm really satisfied with this new HTML view that I created. I also had a lot of... positive thoughts! Instead of the usual negativity. But having so many thoughts still means that I'm not completely focused on my work. Deep Work Duration: 45 minutes
• 01:38 PM - 02:32 PM: I continued the work on the template and I added the API call. I noticed that I did a little mistake on the backend, I need to correct that in order to finish the current task. Deep Work Duration: 54 minutes
• 02:43 PM - 03:39 PM: I did the correction to the backend, completed the work on the frontend, created the pull requests, and merged them. Deep Work Duration: 56 minutes

I think I'm starting to build a work-ethic momentum, I successfully worked for at least 6 hours on four days. I worked a little less today, but in total it makes more than 30 hours this week.

• Total Work Duration: 5 hours 48 minutes, including x hours x minutes of Deep Work (objective at least 6 hours)
• Total Reading Time: 0 minutes (objective 0 minutes, I'm not reading anything currently)

[Raphael]

17 May 2020

• Wake Up Time: 06:40 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM)
• In Bed Time: 09:00 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM)

Work Sessions:

• No work for today

 

• Total Work Duration: 0 minutes (objective 0 minutes)
• Total Reading Time: 0 minutes (objective 0 minutes, I'm not reading anything currently)

[Raphael]

18 May 2020

• Wake Up Time: 07:25 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM)
• In Bed Time: 10:00 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM)

Work Sessions:

• 09:36 AM - 10:39 AM: I searched for new clients and sent a proposal. Work Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes
• 11:20 AM - 12:59 AM: I slacked off on youtube during my previous break. Aside from that, I continued to search for more clients online, I sent more proposals and responded to various emails. Work Duration: 1 hour 39 minutes
• 02:20 PM - 03:28 PM: I continued to search for clients and sent a few proposals. I slacked off a little near the end by distracting myself on the actualized.org forum and looking at some porn images. Work Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes
• 03:43 PM - 04:18 PM: I searched more and sent more proposals. Work Duration: 35 minutes

I slacked off a lot today, I didn't want to go out of my bed in the morning and I have been very lazy. I spend the whole day searching for new clients and was a little distracted sometimes because I was looking at other websites.

• Total Work Duration: 4 hours 25 minutes, including 0 minutes of Deep Work (objective at least 6 hours)
• Total Reading Time: 0 minutes (objective 0 minutes, I'm not reading anything currently)

Edited May 18, 2020 by Raphael

[Raphael]

19 May 2020

• Wake Up Time: 07:23 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM)
• In Bed Time: 09:27 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM)

Work Sessions:

• 10:51 AM - 11:31 AM: I had a conversation with a client. Work Duration: 40 minutes

 

I didn't sleep for the entire night. My mind was insane, I had an incredible amount of thoughts that I was unable to control. Because of that I woke up very late and pretty tired in the morning. I was unable to do any kind of work during the day. Maybe it's a backslash after the last productive week.

• Total Work Duration: 40 minutes, including 0 minutes of Deep Work (objective at least 6 hours)
• Total Reading Time: 0 minutes (objective 0 minutes, I'm not reading anything currently)

[Raphael]

20 May 2020

• Wake Up Time: 06:20 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM)
• In Bed Time: 09:30 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM)

Work Sessions:

• 10:32 AM - 11:30 AM: I searched for clients and sent two new proposals Work Duration: 58 minutes

 

• Total Work Duration: 58 minutes, including 0 minutes of Deep Work (objective 0 minutes)
• Total Reading Time: 0 minutes (objective 0 minutes, I'm not reading anything currently)

[Raphael]

21 May 2020

• Wake Up Time: 06:35 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM)
• In Bed Time: 09:20 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM)

Work Sessions:

• 09:21 AM - 10:33 AM: I searched for clients and sent a few proposals Work Duration: 1 hour 12 minutes
• 11:09 AM - 01:27 PM: I started to work on the configuration of a remote server for a web API, but then got interrupted by a client's call, so I had to help him. Work Duration: 2 hours 18 minutes
• 02:25: PM - 04:54 PM: I had a security issue on my personal project. I had some work to do for a client, but I wanted to fix it before. Work Duration: 2 hours 29 minutes

 

• Total Work Duration: 5 hours 59 minutes, including 0 minutes of Deep Work (objective at least 6 hours)
• Total Reading Time: 0 minutes (objective 0 minutes, I'm not reading anything currently)

[Raphael]

22 May 2020

• Wake Up Time: 06:08 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM)
• In Bed Time: 09:30 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM)

Work Sessions:

• 10:45 AM - 11:05 AM: I had a call with a client to discuss his project implementation. Work Duration: 20 minutes
• 03:53 PM - 04:12 PM: I had another call with the same client. Work Duration: 19 minutes

Deep Work Sessions:

• 10:13 AM - 10:45 AM: I started to work on a tool to convert a JSON object to another format, but then got interrupted by a client. Deep Work Duration: 32 minutes
• 11:05 - 11:55 AM: I finished my JSON converter tool. Deep Work Duration: 50 minutes
• 12:05 AM - 12:53 AM: I continued the work on the client's web application. It looks good so far. Deep Work Duration: 48 minutes
• 01:59 PM - 03:17 PM: Got interrupted by a phone call. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 18 minutes
• 03:35 PM - 03:53 PM: Deep Work Duration: 28 minutes
• 04:18 PM - 05:19 PM: Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 1 minute
• 07:29 PM - 08:15 PM: I did a few corrections on the interface. Deep Work Duration: 46 minutes

 

• Total Work Duration: 6 hours 24 minutes, including 5 hours 45 minutes of Deep Work (objective at least 6 hours)
• Total Reading Time: 0 minutes (objective 0 minutes, I'm not reading anything currently)

Edited May 22, 2020 by Raphael

[Raphael]

23 May 2020

• Wake Up Time: 06:35 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM)
• In Bed Time: 09:50 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM)

Deep Work Sessions:

• 09:30 AM - 10:30 AM: I tried to fix some bugs, it was quite challenging but I finally started to found a solution near the end of this session. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour
• 10:49 AM - 12:16 AM: I finally fixed these bugs, I had a lot of parasites and angry thoughts. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 27 minutes
• 12:26 AM - 01:11 PM: I added an API call and created new components. I distracted myself on some websites at some moments. Deep Work Duration: 45 minutes
• 01:58 PM - 03:06 PM: I created a filter and loaded the appropriate data. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes
• 03:16 PM - 04:47 PM: I completed the filter, it's working properly, but I noted that I needed to create another service to properly deal with the brands. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 31 minutes

 

• Total Work Duration: 5 hours 51 minutes, including 5 hours 51 minutes of Deep Work (objective at least 6 hours)
• Total Reading Time: 0 minutes (objective 0 minutes, I'm not reading anything currently)

[Raphael]

24 May 2020

• Wake Up Time: 08:04 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM)
• In Bed Time: 09:30 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM)

Work Sessions:

• No work for today

 

• Total Work Duration: 0 minutes (objective 0 minutes)
• Total Reading Time: 0 minutes (objective 0 minutes, I'm not reading anything currently)