Schedules!

I have a weird relationship with scheduling. I have tried, in the past, to divide my day into sections, and dictate ahead of time what I should be doing in each section. I never follow them. It might work for at most, a day. I'm really not sure how I got so far in my life with so little time management. However, if I ever do make a plan to do X and find out that I am prevented from doing X, this really ruins my whole day. Instead of doing Y, the logical alternative to X, I do nothing. It's as if I am a robot that shuts down after finding that it has no more tasks it can complete.

But I'm making an effort to improve myself, starting with facing down the things that give me anxiety and writing about them.

- I will make an effort to go to sleep by midnight each night and I will make an effort to wake up at 8 AM each morning.
- I have no more than an hour in the morning for a morning ritual. If I want to, I can drink coffee, eat breakfast, surf a few sites, but only until 9 AM.
- Every night I make a list of three or four things to accomplish tomorrow. Every morning at 9 AM I check the list.
- (Also defrost any meat for cooking dinner at 9 AM.)
- At noon, review the list. If there are things on the list I haven't accomplished, I need to write down exactly why I haven't accomplished them and what I did instead.
- This process is repeated at 3 PM.
- (At 5 PM, I'll start making dinner. Because I'm also trying to learn how to cook, I need to write down what I'm making and how it turned out.)
- After dinner and cleaning up, (around 7 PM) I review the list again. If there are things on the list I haven't accomplished, I need to break down the item further into doable parts.
- Once again, before bed, I have to make a new list for the next day.