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

[Raphael]

05 February 2021

• 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:

• 09:38 AM - 10:46 AM
  • I did a bunch of various stuff and searched for an accounting course
  • Focus: 3.5/5
  • Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes
• 11:15 AM - 12:50 AM
  • I finally choose an accounting course and bought a new software to test it out
  • Focus: 3.5/5
  • Duration: 1 hour 35 minutes
• 07:39 PM - 08:10 PM
  • I canceled a subscription, created internal links, shared an article on social medias, and sent an update message to a client.
  • Focus: 3.5/5
  • Duration: 31 minutes

They are some periods in life when we just want to be lazy and don't do anything. I'm currently in one of those phase. The hot weather is adding to this, I just want to go to the beach and lay down in front of it all day long.

• Average Focus: 3.5 / 5 (objective at least 3.5 / 5)
• Total Work Duration: 3 hours 14 minutes, including hours minutes of Deep Work (objective at least 6 hours)
• Total Reading Time: 0 minutes (I'm not reading anything currently)

Edited February 5, 2021 by Raphael

[Raphael]

06 February 2021

• Wake Up Time: 05:33 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:

• 08:56 AM - 10:24 AM
  • I did a tool comparison and canceled a subscription
  • Focus: 3.5/5
  • Duration: 1 hour 28 minutes
• 10:43 AM - 11:53 AM
  • I did some corrections on a website and started the accounting course
  • Focus: 3.5/5
  • Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes
• 11:59 AM - 12:30 AM
  • I continued the accounting course
  • Focus: 3.5/5
  • Duration: 31 minutes
• 01:21 PM - 02:51 PM
  • I did more progress on the accounting course. It's quite basic for the moment
  • Focus: 3.5/5
  • Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
• 03:04 PM - 04:29 PM
  • I continued the accounting course. It's still quite basic, I'm learning about Excel for the moment. I will not use many of its features in the future
  • Focus: 3.5/5
  • Duration: 1 hour 25 minutes

 

• Average Focus: 3.5 / 5 (objective at least 3.5 / 5)
• Total Work Duration: 6 hours 4 minutes, including hours minutes of Deep Work (objective at least 6 hours)
• Total Reading Time: 0 minutes (I'm not reading anything currently)

Edited February 6, 2021 by Raphael

[Raphael]

Healing Work Traumas

I got this idea from Leo's latest blog post: https://www.actualized.org/insights/back-from-2-month-break-updates

I currently have a problem when working which is that very often when I work I have painful thoughts that appear about past work experiences. I entered the marketplace in late 2017 and worked in two companies previously. What happened is that I had a lot of creative ideas and wanted to do good work and did my best to achieve goals, but got dragged down by coworkers and supervisors. They basically got jealous and started to see me as a treat, and therefore I got bullied a lot. Of course, I also did some shit at some moments, but I think it was way less than what I experienced. At a point, the bullying was too much for me so I cut off everyone as much as I could. I was basically going to work, not talking to anyone all day long, and then getting back to my small apartment. I was all alone, depressed, sometimes suicidal, and sometimes had panic attacks.

Even if I'm far away from this now I still have many residues within myself that are impacting my ability to work and to use my brain properly. I currently associate work with pain where before that work used to be a way to express myself. Leo talked about how important it is to have a proper root and also mentioned that sometimes it's worthwhile taking time to fix the root rather than trying to force things. This is what I'm going to do. I was planning to start reading a new book recently, but it will wait. I will instead use this time to fix my work-related traumas

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[Raphael]

07 February 2021

• Wake Up Time: 05:50 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM)
• In Bed Time: 09:20 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM)
   
• ✅ 45 minutes of Doing Nothing Before Going To Sleep

Work Sessions:

• No work for today

 

• Average Focus: ~ / 5 (objective at least 3.5 / 5)
• Total Work Duration: 0 minutes, including 0 minutes of Deep Work (objective 0 minutes)
• Total Reading Time: 0 minutes (I'm not reading anything currently)

Edited February 7, 2021 by Raphael

[Raphael]

 Weekly Statistics (01 February 2021 - 07 January 2021)

 

Total Working Hours

24 hours 50 minutes

Average Focus

3.41 / 5

[Raphael]

08 February 2021

• Wake Up Time: 05:45 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM)
• In Bed Time: 09:35 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM)

• ❌ 45 minutes of Doing Nothing Before Going To Sleep

Work Sessions:

• 08:27 AM - 10:01 AM
  • I continued the accounting course
  • Focus: 3.5/5
  • Duration: 1 hour 34 minutes
• 10:26 AM - 12:06 AM
  • I continued the accounting course, I distracted myself a bit at some moments
  • Focus: 3.5/5
  • Duration: 1 hour 40 minutes
• 01:06 PM - 02:30 PM
  • I continued the work on the accounting course
  • Focus: 3.5/5
  • Duration: 1 hour 24 minutes
• 02:39 PM - 03:48 PM
  • I'm continuing the accounting course, but starting to get tired
  • Focus: 3.5/5
  • Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes
• 03:54 PM - 04:21 PM
  • I corrected an issue on the calculations
  • Focus: 3.5/5
  • Duration: 27 minutes

@Raphael Good job!

 

• Average Focus: 3.5 / 5 (objective at least 3.5 / 5)
• Total Work Duration: 6 hours 14 minutes, including 0 minutes of Deep Work (objective at least 6 hours)
• Total Reading Time: 0 minutes (I'm not reading anything currently)

Edited February 8, 2021 by Raphael

[Raphael]

09 February 2021

• Wake Up Time: 06:40 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM)
• In Bed Time: ~ PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM)
   
• ✅ 45 minutes of Doing Nothing Before Going To Sleep

Work Sessions:

• 09:31 AM - 10:40 AM
  • After one year of fighting and more than one hour this morning it looks like I'm finally able to withdraw my money from the freelancing platform. I now only need to wait with the hope to see the money appears on my banking interface
  • Focus: 3.5/5
  • Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes
• 10:58 AM - 12:33 AM
  • I did some analysis and some research on backlinks. I learned a lot
  • Focus: 3.5/5
  • Duration: 1 hour 35 minutes
• 01:25 PM - 02:57 PM
  • I took back the accounting course, but I realize that it's currently useless for me. I switched back to my coding project and got in touch with my previous work
  • Focus: 3.5/5
  • Duration: 1 hour 32 minutes
• 07:33 PM - 08:10 PM
  • I updated node.js, made a small correction and a pull request, and sent some updates to a client
  • Focus: 3.5/5
  • Duration: 37 minutes

Deep Work Sessions:

• 03:02 PM - 03:36 PM
  • I fixed a bug, found another issue, but it only looks like a software that needs to be updated
  • Focus: 3.5/5
  • Duration: 1 hour 34 minutes

I didn't want to get out of bed this morning because it felt so good. It didn't matter that much in the end as I had a pretty productive day.

• Average Focus: 3.5 / 5 (objective at least 3.5 / 5)
• Total Work Duration: 6 hours 27 minutes, including 1 hour 34 minutes of Deep Work (objective at least 6 hours)
• Total Reading Time: 0 minutes (I'm not reading anything currently)

[Raphael]

10 February 2021

• Wake Up Time: 05:37 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM)
• In Bed Time: 09:50 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM)
   
• ❌ 45 minutes of Doing Nothing Before Going To Sleep

Work Sessions:

• 10:40 AM - 11:19 AM
  • I did some research and responded to a client
  • Focus: 3.5/5
  • Duration: 39 minutes
• 07:38 PM - 07:51 PM
  • I responded to a client
  • Focus: 3.5/5
  • Duration: 13 minutes

Good day, even though I got some internet cravings before going to bed.

• Average Focus: 3.5 / 5 (objective at least 3.5 / 5)
• Total Work Duration: 52 minutes, including 0 minutes of Deep Work (objective 0 minutes)
• Total Reading Time: 0 minutes (I'm not reading anything currently)

Edited February 10, 2021 by Raphael

[Raphael]

11 February 2021

• Wake Up Time: 06:51 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:

• 09:01 AM - 10:21 AM
  • I had a talk with a client, did a few modifications on a website, and responded to another client
  • Focus: 3.5/5
  • Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes
• 10:40 AM - 12:11 AM
  • Created a new branch, did a lot of research
  • Focus: 3.5/5
  • Duration: 1 hour 31 minutes
• 01:04 PM - 02:05 PM
  • I did a small modification on a website and responded to a client
  • Focus: 3.5/5
  • Duration: 1 hour 1 minute

Deep Work Sessions:

• 02:19 PM - 03:34 PM
  • I did researches and experimented with Twitter API
  • Focus: 4/5
  • Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes
• 03:40 PM - 04:25 PM
  • I continued my researches on Twitter API. I think I know what I need to do now
  • Focus: 4/5
  • Duration: 45 minutes

 

• Average Focus: 3.7 / 5 (objective at least 3.5 / 5)
• Total Work Duration: 5 hours 52 minutes, including hours 2 of Deep Work (objective at least 6 hours)
• Total Reading Time: 0 minutes (I'm not reading anything currently)

Edited February 11, 2021 by Raphael

[Raphael]

12 February 2021

• Wake Up Time: 05:41 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:

• 09:56 AM - 10:32 AM
  • I did some analysis and responded to a client
  • Focus: 3.5/5
  • Duration: 36 minutes
• 11:02 AM - 12:14 AM
  • I did some research on e-commerce SEO
  • Focus: 3.5/5
  • Duration: 1 hour 12 minutes
• 01:17 PM - 01:57 PM
  • Did a bunch of disorganized stuff, also distracted myself
  • Focus: 3/5
  • Duration: 40 minutes

Deep Work Sessions:

• 02:24 PM - 03:18 PM
  • Went back working on a Node.js API
  • Focus: 3.5/5
  • Duration: 54 minutes
• 03:23 PM - 04:36 PM
  • I continued the work on the API, but also confused myself a lot while doing it
  • Focus: 3.5/5
  • Duration: 1 hour 13 minutes

 

• Average Focus: 3.4 / 5 (objective at least 3.5 / 5)
• Total Work Duration: 4 hours 35 minutes, including 2 hours 7 minutes of Deep Work (objective at least 6 hours)
• Total Reading Time: 0 minutes (I'm not reading anything currently)

Edited February 12, 2021 by Raphael

[Raphael]

13 February 2021

• Wake Up Time: 05:35 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM)
• In Bed Time: 09:50 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM)

• ❌ 45 minutes of Doing Nothing Before Going To Sleep

Work Sessions:

• 03:43 PM - 04:36 PM
  • Did some testing and some research on Twitter API
  • Focus: 3.5/5
  • Duration: 53 minutes

Deep Work Sessions:

• 08:46 AM - 09:45 AM
  • I'm having a bug with Twitter API
  • Focus: 3.5/5
  • Duration: 59 minutes
• 10:07 AM - 11:30 AM
  • Found a solution to the problem. It was one extra character in the code... programming is so rough sometimes
  • Focus: 3.5/5
  • Duration: 1 hour 23 minutes
• 11:36 AM - 12:10 AM
  • I completed the API route, created and merged a pull request
  • Focus: 3.5/5
  • Duration: 34 minutes
• 01:12 PM - 02:32 PM
  • I started doing some modifications to another API route. I had a lot of unrelated thoughts
  • Focus: 3.5/5
  • Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes
• 02:38 PM - 03:37 PM
  • I completed the previous work. I will do some testing a little after
  • Focus: 3.5/5
  • Duration: 59 minutes

 

• Average Focus: 3.5 / 5 (objective at least 3.5 / 5)
• Total Work Duration: 6 hours 8 minutes, including 5 hours 15 minutes of Deep Work (objective at least 6 hours)
• Total Reading Time: 0 minutes (I'm not reading anything currently)

Edited February 13, 2021 by Raphael

[Raphael]

14 February 2021

• Wake Up Time: 05:54 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM)
• In Bed Time: 10:17 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM)

• ❌ 45 minutes of Doing Nothing Before Going To Sleep

Work Sessions:

• 11:25 AM - 12:21 AM
  • Did a few changes on a website and responded to a client
  • Focus: 3.5/5
  • Duration: 56 minutes

 

• Average Focus: 3.5 / 5 (objective at least 3.5 / 5)
• Total Work Duration: 56 minutes, including 0 minutes of Deep Work (objective 0 minutes)
• Total Reading Time: 0 minutes (I'm not reading anything currently)

Edited February 14, 2021 by Raphael

[Raphael]

Weekly Statistics (08 February 2021 - 14 February 2021)

 

Total Working Hours

31 hours 04 minutes

Average Focus

3.51 / 5

[Raphael]

15 February 2021

• Wake Up Time: 07:22 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM)
• In Bed Time: 11:00 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM)

• ❌ 45 minutes of Doing Nothing Before Going To Sleep

Work Sessions:

• 10:49 AM - 12:02 AM
  • Read an article, passed a test
  • Focus: 3.5/5
  • Duration: 1 hour 13 minutes
• 01:12 PM - 02:15 PM
  • Responded to a person, did a few other stuff
  • Focus: 3.5/5
  • Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes
• 02:22 PM - 03:43 PM
  • I wanted to do some coding, then got a message from a client telling me that there will not be another project for the next month. It stressed the shit out of me and I started to check job posting platforms
  • Focus: 3/5
  • Duration: 1 hour 21 minutes
• 07:14 PM - 07:24 PM
  • I responded to a client
  • Focus: 3.5/5
  • Duration: 10 minutes

Deep Work Sessions:

• 03:51 AM - 04:35 AM
  • Started working on a new small web application
  • Focus: 3.5/5
  • Duration: 44 minutes

I know that I shouldn't have played GTA last night. It made overactive at night, in consequence, I didn't sleep well and didn't wanted to get out of bed this morning.

• Average Focus: 3.4 / 5 (objective at least 3.5 / 5)
• Total Work Duration: 4 hours 31 minutes, including 44 minutes of Deep Work (objective at least 6 hours)
• Total Reading Time: 0 minutes (I'm not reading anything currently)

Edited February 15, 2021 by Raphael

[Raphael]

16 February 2021

• Wake Up Time: 08:15 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:

• 10:45 AM - 11:57 AM
  • Did some updates on a website. I was quite annoyed with all the noises outside me
  • Focus: 3.5/5
  • Duration: 1 hour 12 minutes
• 04:03 PM - 04:26 PM
  • I uploaded an article
  • Focus: 3.5/5
  • Duration: 23 minutes
• 08:01 AM - 08:16 AM
  • I shared an article on social media and responded to a client
  • Focus: 3.5/5
  • Duration: 15 minutes

Deep Work Sessions:

• 01:21 PM - 02:47 PM
  • I worked on the small web app, got some issues
  • Focus: 3.5/5
  • Duration: 1 hour 26 minutes
• 02:52 PM - 04:03 PM
  • I continued the previous work, but distracted myself a little too much.
  • Focus: 3/5
  • Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes

Shit...

• Average Focus: 3.37 / 5 (objective at least 3.5 / 5)
• Total Work Duration: 4 hours 26 minutes, including 2 hours 36 minutes of Deep Work (objective at least 6 hours)
• Total Reading Time: 0 minutes (I'm not reading anything currently)

Edited February 16, 2021 by Raphael

[Raphael]

17 February 2021

• Wake Up Time: 06:54 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM)
• In Bed Time: 10:10 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM)

• ❌ 45 minutes of Doing Nothing Before Going To Sleep

Work Sessions:

• 03:23 PM - 04:03 PM
  • I added some images to a websites
  • Focus: 3.5/5
  • Duration: 40 minutes
• 07:33 PM - 07:51 PM
  • Just did a few small updates on a website
  • Focus: 3.5/5
  • Duration: 18 minutes

Deep Work Sessions:

• 11:07 AM - 12:11 AM
  • I worked on a small web app. I distracted myself a little by listening to Leo in the background
  • Focus: 3.5/5
  • Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes
• 12:22 AM - 12:53 AM
  • I continued the previous work
  • Focus: 3.5/5
  • Duration: 31 minutes

 

• Average Focus: 3.5 / 5 (objective at least 3.5 / 5)
• Total Work Duration: 2 hours 37 minutes, including hours minutes of Deep Work (objective 0 minutes)
• Total Reading Time: 0 minutes (I'm not reading anything currently)

Edited February 17, 2021 by Raphael

[Raphael]

17 February 2021

• Wake Up Time: 06:34 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:

• 08:55 AM - 08:28 AM
  • I did a few checks
  • Focus: 3.5/5
  • Duration: 33 minutes
• 01:20 PM - 04:55 PM
  • Mostly worked on a website optimization
  • Focus: 3.5/5
  • Duration: 3 hours 25 minutes

Deep Work Sessions:

• 09:45 AM - 10:45 AM
  • I worked on the web app
  • Focus: 3.5/5
  • Duration: 1 hour
• 11:04 AM - 12:12 AM
  • I continued the work on the web app
  • Focus: 3.5/5
  • Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes

 

• Average Focus: 3.5 / 5 (objective at least 3.5 / 5)
• Total Work Duration: 6 hours 6 minutes, including 2 hours 8 minutes of Deep Work (objective at least 6 hours)
• Total Reading Time: 0 minutes (I'm not reading anything currently)

Edited February 18, 2021 by Raphael

[Raphael]

19 February 2021

• Wake Up Time: 05:30 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:

• 09:16 AM - 10:06 AM
  • I responded to two persons
  • Focus: 3.5/5
  • Duration: 50 minutes
• 07:17 PM - 07:21 PM
  • I responded to a person
  • Focus: 3.5/5
  • Duration: 4 minutes

Deep Work Sessions:

• 10:32 AM - 12:02 AM
  • I worked on the small web app
  • Focus: 3.5/5
  • Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
• 02:37 PM - 04:01 PM
  • I continued the work on the web app
  • Focus: 3.5/5
  • Duration: 1 hour 24 minutes
• 04:10 PM - 04:40 PM
  • I worked on the app and did a few checks
  • Focus: 3.5/5
  • Duration: 30 minutes

Almost didn't sleep of the entire night, went to the gym at 6 AM, and therefore had trouble to work in the afternoon.

• Average Focus: 3.5 / 5 (objective at least 3.5 / 5)
• Total Work Duration: 4 hours 18 minutes, including 2 hours 24 minutes of Deep Work (objective at least 6 hours)
• Total Reading Time: 0 minutes (I'm not reading anything currently)

Edited February 19, 2021 by Raphael

[Raphael]

20 February 2021

• Wake Up Time: 05:38 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM)
• In Bed Time: 09:22 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM)
   
• ✅ 45 minutes of Doing Nothing Before Going To Sleep

Deep Work Sessions:

• 01:33 PM - 03:00 PM
  • I did some work on the web app
  • Focus: 3.5/5
  • Duration: 1 hour 27 minutes

Didn't sleep of the entire night, couldn't work properly.

• Average Focus: 3.5 / 5 (objective at least 3.5 / 5)
• Total Work Duration: 1 hour 27 minutes, including 1 hour 27 minutes of Deep Work (objective at least 6 hours)
• Total Reading Time: 0 minutes (I'm not reading anything currently)

Edited February 20, 2021 by Raphael

[Raphael]

21 February 2021

• Wake Up Time: 06:09 AM (objective 5:30 AM - 6:00 AM)
• In Bed Time: 09:11 PM (objective 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM)
   
• ✅ 45 minutes of Doing Nothing Before Going To Sleep

Work Sessions:

• No work for today

 

• Average Focus: ~ / 5 (objective at least 3.5 / 5)
• Total Work Duration: 0 minutes, including 0 minutes of Deep Work (objective 0 minutes)
• Total Reading Time: 0 minutes (I'm not reading anything currently)

Edited February 21, 2021 by Raphael