about a month ago i started doing electrical work (4 10s, Monday-Thursday). prior to this i had been working out 3 times a week and getting a lot of stuff done around the house. i still have a few hours of free time in the evenings, how do i not spend it dicking around on my phone?
maybe go to sleep as soon as you get home and do stuff later/in the mornings. save something caffeinated for when you get back. put the phone away somewhere after work. have a “i’m off work” routine like exercising or showering to get into a different mindset.
I generally assume that I can only do creative things (writing for me) in the morning before I go to work. After work, the best I can do is chores and maybe some reading and guitar.
I would be waking up at midnight basically to give myself two hours before work, but I think I’m gonna give this a try. It’s the one piece of advice in the thread I’ve clicked with so far.
A few weeks ago, I had a stent where I was waking up about an hour before my alarm went off. The first day I just couldn’t get back to bed and laid there for an hour, so the second day I just got up. Figured I would fill the time with coffee and hexbear, but then I got in the mood for journaling. Looking back on it, that was a couple pretty good days.