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

[Raphael]

07 July 2020

• Wake Up Time: 06:23 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM)
• In Bed Time: 10:05 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM)

•  ✅ 45 minutes of Doing Nothing Before Going To Sleep

Deep Work Sessions:

• 10:32 AM - 12:12 AM: I fixed the bug that I had yesterday and started to design the mobile navigation bar. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 40 minutes
• 12:20 AM - 01:05 PM: I continued the design of the navigation bar. Deep Work Duration: 45 minutes
• 02:01 PM - 03:24 PM: I completed the design for the navigation bar. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 23 minutes
• 03:31 PM - 04:59 PM: I started to design the left navigation pane. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 28 minutes
• 08:06 PM - 09:08 PM: I continued the work with the navigation page, I'm currently very satisfied with its design. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes

@Raphael Good job Raph! See letting go always works Continue!

• Total Work Duration: 6 hours 18 minutes, including 6 hours 18 minute of Deep Work (objective at least 6 hours)
• Total Reading Time: 0 minutes (objective 0 minutes, I'm not reading anything currently)

Edited August 7, 2020 by Raphael

[Raphael]

08 July 2020

• Wake Up Time: 06:10 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM)
• In Bed Time: 00:40 AM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM)

Deep Work Sessions:

• 08:44 AM - 10:00 AM: I wanted to continue the work on the mobile navigation, but run into a bug that I didn't expected. I also got distracted by my depressed grandma who started to cry. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 16 minutes
• 10:35 AM - 12:19: I continued the work on the mobile navigation. I had a lot of painful thoughts about my dad, my toxic family, stage red, narcissists, psychopaths, and sociopaths. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 44 minutes
• 03:21 PM - 04:46 PM: I completed the mobile navigation menu. I was distracted as I was at the same time setting up my new computer and talking to my sister. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 25 minutes
• 09:59 PM - 00:27 AM: I worked on the mobile filters and almost completed them. Deep Work Duration: 2 hours 28 minutes

Shit...

@Raphael Let go, just let go.

• Total Work Duration: 5 hours 53 minutes, including 5 hours 53 minute of Deep Work (objective at least 6 hours)
• Total Reading Time: 0 minutes (objective 0 minutes, I'm not reading anything currently)

[Raphael]

09 July 2020

• Wake Up Time: 07:20 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM)
• In Bed Time: 10:25 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM)

Deep Work Sessions:

• 01:48 PM - 03:08 PM: I started to fix bugs related to the mobile filters. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes
• 03:26 PM - 04:57 PM: I continued to fix the bugs related to the mobile filters. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 31 minutes
• 08:15 PM - 09:21 PM: More fixes, and also more unrelated thoughts. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes

@Raphael That's better, you need to re stabilize yourself. Courage!

• Total Work Duration: 3 hours 57 minutes, including 3 hours 57 minutes of Deep Work (objective 0 minutes)
• Total Reading Time: 0 minutes (objective 0 minutes, I'm not reading anything currently)

Edited August 9, 2020 by Raphael

[Raphael]

10 July 2020

• Wake Up Time: 07:31 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM)
• In Bed Time: 10:50 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM)

Work Sessions:

• 03:51 PM - 04:31 PM: I had a call with my client. It looks like the more I work for him, the more he wants me to work non-stop. Work Duration: 40 minutes

Deep Work Sessions:

• 09:47 AM - 10:36 AM: I created the mobile search menu and did some adjustments. I distracted myself at a moment by doing some desktop configuration. Deep Work Duration: 49 minutes
• 11:21 AM - 12:05 AM: I completed the search functionality. It looks very good, I'm very satisfied with the result. Deep Work Duration: 54 minutes
• 12:15 AM - 01:03 AM: I started to separate the login component into a desktop and mobile version. Deep Work Duration: 48 minutes
• 03:28 PM - 03:51 PM: I worked on the login page. Deep Work Duration: 23 minutes
• 08:24 PM - 08:59 PM: I completed the mobile login view, the social logins are not working yet, I will add them after completing the registration page. Deep Work Duration: 35 minutes
• 09:10 PM - 09:50 PM: I worked on the mobile registration view. It's almost complete. Deep Work Duration: 40 minutes
• 09:57 PM - 10:26 PM: I completed the register mobile view and added the loading logo. I will deal with the social logins tomorrow. Deep Work Duration: 29 minutes

My client is pressuring me and I don't like it. I over stress when I'm pressured and in consequence I'm more lazy and I procrastinate and take more time to do my work. I respect more the deadlines without deadlines. I know that I will have to deal with such situations in the future, and not being able to give the work on the time is similar to dying for me. I think that the best way to deal with such situations is to work as if I'm already dead so that I don't have anything to stress about.

• Total Work Duration: 5 hours 18 minutes, including 4 hours 38 minutes of Deep Work (objective at least 6 hours)
• Total Reading Time: 0 minutes (objective 0 minutes, I'm not reading anything currently)

[Raphael]

11 July 2020

• Wake Up Time: 06:51 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM)
• In Bed Time: 10:00 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM)

•  ✅ 45 minutes of Doing Nothing Before Going To Sleep

Deep Work Sessions:

• 08:25 AM - 09:57 AM: I started the day with some fixes concerning the social logins. It caused me a lot of trouble, but I'm finally out of it. I got distracted at some moments. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 32 minutes
• 10:26 AM - 12:16 AM: I started to fix more bugs related to the mobile layout. I distracted myself a bit at some moments. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 50 minutes
• 12:26 AM - 12:52 AM: I completed the fixes to the mobile layout. Deep Work Duration: 26 minutes
• 02:15 AM - 03:44 PM: I started to work on the cart page. I wasn't highly focused because I was listening to some videos and then talked with my sister. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 29 minutes
• 03:56 AM - 05:02 AM: I almost finished the cart page. I wasn't very concentrated because I was talking to my sister at the same time. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes
• 08:04 AM - 09:08 AM: I completed the cart page and started the checkout page, it's half complete. I was quite focused during this session. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes

@Raphael Courage Raphael, courage!

• Total Work Duration: 7 hours 27 minutes, including 3 hours 57 minutes of Deep Work (objective at least 6 hours)
• Total Reading Time: 0 minutes (objective 0 minutes, I'm not reading anything currently)

Edited August 11, 2020 by Raphael

[Raphael]

12 July 2020

• Wake Up Time: 06:44 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM)
• In Bed Time: 10:20 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM)

• ❌ 45 minutes of Doing Nothing Before Going To Sleep

Deep Work Sessions:

• 02:08 PM - 03:38 PM: I continued the work on the mobile/desktop separation of the checkout page. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
• 03:44 PM - 05:00 PM: I completed the mobile version of checkout page, the cancel checkout page, and the validate payment page. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 16 minutes
• 08:13 PM - 08:54 PM: I completed the mobile view for the stripe payment. I distracted myself a little near the end. Deep Work Duration: 41 minutes
• 09:00 PM - 10:01 PM: I started to work on the mobile version of the orders history. It's almost complete, I was quite focused. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 1 minute

@Raphael Good, that's better. Continue to re-stabilize yourself ?

• Total Work Duration: 4 hours 28 minutes, including 3 hours 57 minutes of Deep Work (objective 0 minutes)
• Total Reading Time: 0 minutes (objective 0 minutes, I'm not reading anything currently)

Edited August 13, 2020 by Raphael

[Raphael]

13 July 2020

• Wake Up Time: 07:02 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM)
• In Bed Time: 10:05 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM)

•  ✅ 45 minutes of Doing Nothing Before Going To Sleep

Deep Work Sessions:

• 09:29 AM - 10:40 AM: I worked on the navigation links for the member area, it created a display bug for the login and logout buttons. I also started to design the mobile version of the orders history section. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes
• 11:14 AM - 12:51 AM: I started to divide the enquire component for mobile/desktop views. I distracted myself near the end because I started to listen to a podcast. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 37 minutes
• 01:57 PM - 03:04 PM: I completed the enquire component and started to work on the items viewed component. I was quite distracted because I was listening to a podcast at the same time. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes
• 03:15 PM - 04:23 PM: I almost completed the order items component. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes
• 04:31 PM - 04:51 PM: I completed the order items component. Deep Work Duration: 20 minutes
• 08:27 PM - 09:14 PM: I moved the currency selection to the side menu. Deep Work Duration: 47 minutes

@Raphael Good job Stay aware of the distractions and focus completely on your work. Keep it up!

• Total Work Duration: 6 hours 20 minutes, including 6 hours 20 minutes of Deep Work (objective at least 6 hours)
• Total Reading Time: 0 minutes (objective 0 minutes, I'm not reading anything currently)

[Raphael]

14 July 2020

• Wake Up Time: 08:22 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM)
• In Bed Time: 10:15 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM)

• ❌ 45 minutes of Doing Nothing Before Going To Sleep

Deep Work Sessions:

• 09:30 AM - 10:33 AM: I created the cookie policy modal and started to fix some bugs on the product grid. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes
• 10:58 AM - 12:37 AM: I worked on the navigation and added all the important links to them. I had a lot of negative thoughts about previous difficult social experiences. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 39 minutes
• 01:47 PM - 03:06 PM: I created the mobile legal pages, the forgot password page, and then reset password one. I distracted myself near the end with some podcasts. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 19 minutes
• 03:12 PM - 04:06 PM: I completed the remaining pages and did a few design adjustments. Deep Work Duration: 54 minutes

I almost didn't sleep for the entire night. I got super lazy in the morning and didn't want to get out of bed. That's OK anyway because I didn't want to work that much today as I was tired of the last two weeks and feeling so much pressure on me.

• Total Work Duration: 4 hours 54 minutes, including 4 hours 54 minutes of Deep Work (objective at least 6 hours)
• Total Reading Time: 0 minutes (objective 0 minutes, I'm not reading anything currently)

Edited August 15, 2020 by Raphael

[Raphael]

15 July 2020

• Wake Up Time: 06:31 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM)
• In Bed Time: 09:43 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM)

•  ✅ 45 minutes of Doing Nothing Before Going To Sleep

Work Sessions:

• 12:24 AM - 12:55 AM: I had a call with my client. Work Duration: 31 minutes

I almost didn't sleep for this night too, so my brain was quite slow today. I didn't want to work after the previous intense week and preferred to take this day off. I instead did some setup and help my mom with her computer and her phone.

• Total Work Duration: 31 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 August 15, 2020 by Raphael

[Raphael]

Ritualize (from Deep Work: Rules For Focused Success In A Distracted World -  Cal Newport)

• Build rituals to make the most out of your deep work sessions
• General questions that any effective ritual must address:
  • Where you'll work and for how long:
    • Have a quiet and specific location
    • Give yourself a specific time frame
  • How you'll work once you start to work:
    • The rituals need rules and processes to keep the efforts structured
    • Without rules, you'll have to mentally litigate again and again what you should and should not be doing during these sessions and keep trying to assess whether you're working sufficiently hard. These are unnecessary drains on your willpower reserves
  • How you'll support your work:
    • Ensure your brain gets the support it needs to keep operating at a high level of depth.
    • Have access to enough quality food to maintain energy
    • Integrate light exercise such as walking to keep the mind clear
    • To maximize your success, you need to support your efforts to go deep. At the same time, this support needs to be systematized so that you don't waste mental energy figuring out what you need in the moment

 

[Raphael]

Make Grand Gestures (from Deep Work: Rules For Focused Success In A Distracted World -  Cal Newport)

By making a radical change to your environment, coupled perhaps with a significant investment of effort or money, all dedicated to supporting a deep work task, you increase the perceived importance of the task. This boost in importance reduces your mind's instinct to procrastinate and delivers an injection of motivation and energy.

[Raphael]

16 July 2020

• Wake Up Time: 07:10 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM)
• In Bed Time: 09:40 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM)

•  ✅ 45 minutes of Doing Nothing Before Going To Sleep

Work Sessions:

• No work for today

 

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

Edited August 16, 2020 by Raphael

[Raphael]

17 July 2020

• Wake Up Time: 06:36 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM)
• In Bed Time: 09:46 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM)

•  ✅ 45 minutes of Doing Nothing Before Going To Sleep

Work Sessions:

• 08:34 AM - 09:38 AM: I contacted the freelancer platform because of payment issues and connected my domain name to the WordPress server. Work Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes
• 09:55 AM - 10:50 AM: I continued the SEO course then got interrupted by a client. Work Duration: 55 minutes
• 10:50 AM - 11:20 AM: I had a conversation with my client, but the network was so bad that we continued by text. Work Duration: 30 minutes
• 11:28 AM - 12:43 AM: I continued working on the SEO course. Work Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes
• 01:48 PM - 03:33 PM: I continued the SEO course. Work Duration: 1 hour 45 minutes

Deep Work Sessions:

• 03:41 PM - 04:58 PM: I worked on a CSS masonry view. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 17 minutes

@Raphael Good job! You were quite focused today, avoided distractions, and had a lot of empty time. You are getting back on track, continue!

• Total Work Duration: 6 hours 46 minutes, including 1 hour 17 minutes of Deep Work (objective at least 6 hours)
• Total Reading Time: 0 minutes (objective 0 minutes, I'm not reading anything currently)

Edited August 18, 2020 by Raphael

[Raphael]

18 July 2020

• Wake Up Time: 06:25 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM)
• In Bed Time: 09:45 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM)
   
• ✅ 45 minutes of Doing Nothing Before Going To Sleep

Work Sessions:

• 02:02 PM - 03:26 PM: I continued the SEO course. I distracted myself at some moments. Work Duration: 1 hour 24 minutes
• 04:10 PM - 04:42 PM: I continued the SEO course, I got distracted several times by a client. Work Duration: 32 minutes

Deep Work Sessions:

• 08:39 AM - 10:03 AM: I continued yesterday's work on the masonry view. I had a lot of thoughts. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 24 minutes
• 10:25 AM - 11:51 AM: I continued the masonry view, but encountered some computation bugs. I also had a lot of unrelated thoughts. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 26 minutes
• 12:00 AM - 12:44 AM: I completed the masonry view, it looks great, I'm satisfied with the result. Deep Work Duration: 44 minutes
• 03:32 PM - 04:04 PM: I did some verification a fixed a few bugs on my client's project. Deep Work Duration: 32 minutes

Today was a little more difficult than yesterday as I felt more agitation in my body. I also distracted myself a little too much when taking my main break. But globally I was quite productive.

@Raphael That's good, continue

• Total Work Duration: 6 hours 2 minutes, including 4 hours 6 minutes of Deep Work (objective at least 6 hours)
• Total Reading Time: 0 minutes (objective 0 minutes, I'm not reading anything currently)

Edited August 18, 2020 by Raphael

[Raphael]

19 July 2020

• Wake Up Time: 06:10 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM)
• In Bed Time: 09:30 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM)
   
•  ❌ 45 minutes of Doing Nothing Before Going To Sleep

Work Sessions:

• 09:30 AM - 09:47 AM: I had a call with my client. Work Duration: 17 minutes

 

• Total Work Duration: 17 minutes, including 0 minutes of Deep Work (objective 0 minutes)
• Total Reading Time: 0 minutes (objective 0 minutes, I'm not reading anything currently)

Edited August 20, 2020 by Raphael

[Raphael]

20 July 2020

• Wake Up Time: 07:17 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM)
• In Bed Time: 09:58 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM)
   
• ✅ 45 minutes of Doing Nothing Before Going To Sleep

Work Sessions:

• 11:59 AM - 01:16 PM: I wanted to continue on the SEO course, but got distracted in the middle by a client. Work Duration: 1 hour 17 minutes
• 02:25 PM - 03:58 PM: I continued the SEO course. The bad network is penalizing me. Work Duration: 1 hour 33 minutes
• 04:00 PM - 04:55 PM: I had a call with my client, fixed some bugs, and also watch a video about image optimization. Deep Work Duration: 55 minutes

Deep Work Sessions:

• 09:35 AM - 10:16 PM: I started the day by doing a few fixes on the wait list form. Deep Work Duration: 41 minutes
• 10:41 AM - 11:52 AM: I completed the work on the wait list. I distracted myself a little. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes

I almost didn't sleep of the entire night, I was too agitated. I got lazy because of that, took to much time to get started in the morning, and took too long breaks, I also distracted myself too much today.

@Raphael Ok, you got a little lazy today, but that's fine. In general you are doing much better than when you started this journal, congratulations! You will wake up early tomorrow and do better, good luck!

• Total Work Duration: 5 hours 37 minutes, including 1 hour 52 minutes of Deep Work (objective at least 6 hours)
• Total Reading Time: 0 minutes (objective 0 minutes, I'm not reading anything currently)

Edited August 20, 2020 by Raphael

[Raphael]

21 July 2020

• Wake Up Time: 05:39 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM)
• In Bed Time: 09:05 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM)
   
• ✅ 45 minutes of Doing Nothing Before Going To Sleep

Work Sessions:

• 10:53 AM - 11:52 AM: I continued the bug fixed and did a few hosting related tasks. Deep Work Duration: 59 minutes
• 11:59 AM - 12:10 AM: I had a call with my client. Work Duration: 11 minutes
• 02:18 PM - 03:39 PM: I continued to work on the SEO course and also did some WordPress configuration. Work Duration: 1 hour 21 minutes
• 03:47 PM - 04:53 PM: I continued the SEO course. Work Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes
• 07:37 PM - 07:54 PM: I checkout a bug that my client showed me. Work Duration: 17 minutes

Deep Work Sessions:

• 09:24 AM - 10:36 AM: I fixed some bugs related to the compiled version on the project. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 12 minutes
• 12:10 AM - 01:21 PM: I continued to bug fixes. I distracted myself a little. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes

@Raphael Superb work, you are improving! Continue!

• Total Work Duration: 6 hours 17 minutes, including 2 hours 23 minutes of Deep Work (objective at least 6 hours)
• Total Reading Time: 0 minutes (objective 0 minutes, I'm not reading anything currently)

Edited August 21, 2020 by Raphael

[Raphael]

22 July 2020

• Wake Up Time: 05:45 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM)
• In Bed Time: 09:15 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM)
   
• ✅ 45 minutes of Doing Nothing Before Going To Sleep

Work Sessions:

• 08:12 AM - 08:25 AM: I started the day with a call with my client. Work Duration: 13 minutes
• 08:31 AM - 09:07 AM: I installed a few stuff. I distracted myself while it was doing the installation in the background. Work Duration: 6 minutes
• 02:22 PM - 03:50 PM: I assisted my client with some issues. I distracted myself a little near the end. Work Duration: 1 hour 28 minutes
• 04:12 PM - 04:54 PM: I did a little of the SEO course. Work Duration: 42 minutes

Deep Work Sessions:

• 09:15 AM - 10:10 AM: They are some fixes that need to be done for the social logins. I started to do them and also had a lot of negative thoughts. Deep Work Duration: 55 minutes
• 10:25 AM - 11:12 AM: I continued the mobile/desktop division for the social logins. Deep Work Duration: 47 minutes
• 11:20 AM - 01:15 PM: I continued the mobile/desktop division for the social logins. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 55 minutes.

@Raphael Good job again! See, minimalizing efforts and letting work very well. Take care of yourself Love,  from yourself ♥️

• Total Work Duration: 6 hours 6 minutes, including 3 hours 37 minutes of Deep Work (objective at least 6 hours)
• Total Reading Time: 0 minutes (objective 0 minutes, I'm not reading anything currently)

Edited August 22, 2020 by Raphael

[Raphael]

23 July 2020

• Wake Up Time: 05:38 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM)
• In Bed Time: 09:12 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM)
   
•  ❌ 45 minutes of Doing Nothing Before Going To Sleep

Work Sessions:

• No work for today

@Raphael Good job. Try also spending more time relaxing on Sunday rather than on the computer.

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

Edited August 23, 2020 by Raphael

[Raphael]

24 July 2020

• Wake Up Time: 06:04 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM)
• In Bed Time: 11:40 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM)

•  ❌ 45 minutes of Doing Nothing Before Going To Sleep

Work Sessions:

• 08:53 AM - 09:55 AM: I had a call with my client. I got fucked up again, it's pissing me off. Work Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes
• 10:37 AM - 11:00 AM: I had another call with my client. Work Duration: 23 minutes

Deep Work Sessions:

• 11:40 AM - 01:13 AM: I searched for some libraries, did some tests, and worked on a carousel. I wasn't that much focused. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 33 minutes
• 02:21 PM - 05:32 PM: I continued to work on the carousel. I wasn't very focused. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes
• 03:54 PM - 04:37 PM: I tried to fix some bugs that weren't even bugs. Deep Work Duration: 43 minutes
• 07:54 PM - 09:30 PM: More bug fixes. I distracted myself a little too much sometimes. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 34 minutes
• 09:40 PM - 11:25 PM: More bug fixes. I distracted myself a little too much sometimes. Deep Work Duration: 1 hour 45 minutes

 

• Total Work Duration: 8 hours 3 minutes, including 6 hours 46 minutes of Deep Work (objective at least 6 hours)
• Total Reading Time: 0 minutes (objective 0 minutes, I'm not reading anything currently)