{"id":12201,"date":"2012-11-28T06:18:18","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T12:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=12201"},"modified":"2012-11-28T06:18:18","modified_gmt":"2012-11-28T12:18:18","slug":"the-most-productive-115-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/28\/the-most-productive-115-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most Productive 1:15 of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My most productive hour and fifteen minutes of the whole day comes between 6:15, the time the alarm rings and preparation for school begins, and 7:30, when I load the children up into the truck for school.<\/p>\n<p>In that magical period, I get the following done:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Make breakfast for the children (really, it&#8217;s only pouring cereal and milk, but).<\/li>\n<li>Make lunch for the children (sandwiches, fruit, snack in a sack).<\/li>\n<li>Empty the dishwasher (if dishes are clean).<\/li>\n<li>Load dishwasher (if it&#8217;s empty and there are dishes to load).<\/li>\n<li>Make bed; sometimes, I&#8217;ll change the linens completely.<\/li>\n<li>Shave and dress.<\/li>\n<li>Start a load of laundry.<\/li>\n<li>Fold a load or two of laundry if available.<\/li>\n<li>Clean up children&#8217;s breakfast dishes.<\/li>\n<li>Get children dressed, enforce tooth brushing, get their assorted gear sorted and loaded.<\/li>\n<li>Brush teeth.<\/li>\n<li>Sometimes check a blog or two.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s a pretty quick moving hour and fifteen minutes, but it&#8217;s full of productive tasks, aside from the check a blog or two bit.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, my next hour included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Go to the supermarket.<\/li>\n<li>Change linens on children&#8217;s beds.<\/li>\n<li>Make breakfast.<\/li>\n<li>Eat breakfast.<\/li>\n<li>Tap out a couple of blog posts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Somehow, the day&#8217;s list of accomplishments runs downhill from there.  I mean, I did some work and I checked some blogs, but sitting at my desks leads to a uniform experience where time just passes and only a few bullet points get done, not all of them salutatory (you checked Instapundit again?  You played Civilization again?)<\/p>\n<p>If I had the same focus as I have that, well, not first hour of the day&#8211;I&#8217;m often awake for an hour before the alarm rings, an hour unfocused because I&#8217;m &#8220;waking up,&#8221; I would be a millionaire.  Or I would feel much more content with what I do every day.  But.<\/p>\n<p>The reason I&#8217;m so efficient in that hour is that I do it six times a week (including Sunday, where &#8220;church&#8221; replaces &#8220;school&#8221;), so I&#8217;m very efficient at it, having drilled in it for a couple of years now.  The remainder of the day is much more fluid and changing, so I can&#8217;t have developed that efficiency and productivity that yield the (same daily) bullet points of accomplishment in them.<\/p>\n<p>I guess I need to make a daily set of bullet points of accomplishment each day beyond those seventy-five minutes and then to work earnestly to ensure that they&#8217;re meaningful and that I recognize <em>x<\/em> hours of paying work, a single bullet point or a couple of lines on a time sheet, are valuable, too.  Also, I should get some things done away from the computer to break it up and have, if not dramatic impact, at least some visible sign that I did something besides checking LinkedIn or Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Well, there&#8217;s the alarm.  Time to get something done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My most productive hour and fifteen minutes of the whole day comes between 6:15, the time the alarm rings and preparation for school begins, and 7:30, when I load the children up into the truck for school. 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