In terms of productivity, today wasn’t an all-around stellar day. Quite the opposite. In fact, I slept most of the day. This pervasive lethargy I found myself succumbing to was primarily due to the fact that I slept like shit the night before. Now, in writing this blog entry, I’ve thought about why and it seems to boil down thusly: I was nervous about failing my math class. Hence why I didn’t sleep well.
I woke up several times throughout the early-morning hours (from 1 – 3 AM), only to sit transfixed in my anxiety. Quite a horrible emotional state to be in. This inability to fall back to sleep led me to sleep past my 4:30 AM alarm, which led me to feel even more unmotivated than I was feeling. A vicious, vicious cycle.
Quite frankly, I was excited to get up near five and start my day off in a productive and meticulous manner. Onto tomorrow, where bigger and better things reside.
And that’s how my resurgence of self is able to reinvigorate itself: I need to set up a pragmatic game plan for tomorrow. Now, knowing myself all too well, I realize that I get the most amount of work done early in the morning when no one else in my apartment is up. Quantitatively, this is during the time interval of 4:45 – 7:30 AM. This is when I expect to get all of my math studying done. As it stands now, I plan to get through three sections of work. Then in the meantime when I have a break from class, I’m going to study two more sections for math and two sections for physics. Academically, those are my only goals for tomorrow. Physically, I want to go the gym (as is usually my preeminent de-stressor). I will update my Productivity Tracker, accordingly.
In conclusion, my main goal for tomorrow morning is to enter a state of deep focus. It is through this mode of precision where I’ll (hopefully) feel most productive. Quite frankly, I haven’t entered a state of deep focus in quite some time.
Up the Down Turn 