What is your daily routine?

[Gautam]

Originally Posted by SenorKaffee

Thanks. I think my current routine sucks because there is so much commuting involved, you can forget about working on stuff in a local train or a bus.

Do you have any idea what you did to me? I've taken your example and considered a good job which I would've passed on because it was far away. I didn't want to shift to that other place and I thought commuting would be too much (about 1-1.5 hrs one way).

Now looking at you and the other person who commutes for 3 hrs a day, I've taken up the decision to take up that job and move into a place somwhere nearby to where I'm currently staying. It's too bad that the Delhi Undeground Trains don't run in the areas that I stay and about to start work in, but hey there's always the bus!

Also this kinda got me thinking, that its a great reason for me to wake early and all the commuting takes up some time of the day and tire me out enough to put me straight to bed first thing I'm home. Because when I'm shifting out, I'm not going to have any luxuries of the home. No TV, no computer, no refridirator, no nothing! Only a matress and my guitar.

Hey I have to start somewhere right?

THANKS SO MUCH FOR THE INSPIRATION SENORKAFFEE!

[Gautam]

Originally Posted by aking

By the way - these messages are meant for Gautam - I don't use forums very often and clearly need more practice

Hey! lol, first of all I'm a garment designer and I recently passed out of fashion school earlier this year. It sucks because nobody wants to hire freshers around here and even if they consider them, the pay is dirt.

I'm not looking to freelance right away, perhaps a year or more down the line, I'd like to take up some side-projects along with my day job. First things first, I have to settle down on my first day-job of my life

[sadavis00]

I usually spend time doing these things everyday, if I do them efficiently, I'll consider it a succesful day.

Study - 6hr (no breaks)
Classes - 2-3hr
Exercise - 1hr
Eat - 2hr
getting ready - 1hr
sleep 8hr
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i guess i waste 4hr of waking time, though this time includes commuting, errands etc.

[Dbarker]

Originally Posted by Alarin

Great thread, I love stuff like this ! I'm a full-time illustrator and I work from home. It's been my dream job for years and I'm finally doing it and absolutely love it!

Alarin, that's awesome that you have your dream job.

My day:
5:30 Wake, exercise, meditate, ready for the day.
6:30 or 6:45 Walk to work, check email, begin the work day
16:30 Walk home
17:00 - 23:00 Work on the house, read, talk with wife.
23:00 bedtime

I was discussing the idea of taking two hours per day to work on PD priorities, and she suggested waking at 4 am. I am going to try for 30 days. I may "sleep in" on weekends until 5.

[toolbaree]

Here is mine!
5:00 AM: Wake up, make ablution and head to the moseque for Fajr prayer. The time acutally differs; it's between 3:30-5:20 depending on the season. Prayer takes around 20 minutes including performing the prayer and preparation for it. It's a break from this life and a moment of connection with Greatest God, the only God, Allah.
5:20 Am: Return to bed and have some more sleep.
6:00 AM: wake up again for the day, brush, have breakfast and head to the work.
7:00 AM: Work starts
11:30 PM: Lunch break and Duhr prayer (second prayer of the 24 hrs)
12:30 PM: Resume work.
3:20 PM: Asr prayer (third prayer)
03:40 PM: back to the office for additional 20 to 30 minutes.
04:00 PM: Leave the office back home
04:20 PM: Evening coffee and free time until Maghrib prayer that's around 5:20PM. After prayer comes back home or visit relatives. This is the devoted time to my family until Isha prayer (5th prayer and last one of the 24 hrs prayer).
7:20: Have dinner, gym time, reading book, watch tv, work on my site, or other variation of activities until bed time.
10:30 t- 11:00 PM: Go to bed.

I am very happy with my life.
Thanks

[Gautam]

Great routine! It's amazing how so many people here wake at 5 am. I'm gonna have to try that. I woke up at 8am today because of the cold weather. Otherwise 9am would be early for me I really have to remember that I'm not in college anymore and have to start waking early.

[Stargirl]

5:00-5:10 stretching, getting ready to exercise
5:10-5:50 treadmill
5:50-6:00 light breakfast
6:00-6:15 shower
6:15-6:45 meditate
6:45-7:00 get ready for school
7:00-7:20 visualize, motivation, music, finish last minute hw, go over to do list
7:20-7:30 drive to school
7:30-7:55 journal
7:55-3:05 high school
3:05-10:30 homework/study (not much because I tend to slack off), browse forums, surf the web, practice dance, practice singing, talk to dad, listen to music, etc.
10:30-5:00 sleep

[aabukar]

You guys reminded of how my routine used to be full of activities all day from morning to night.

so i will post two routines ... one when i used to have a full routine and the other is today.

Routine 1. When i was living at jordan and i was a Student and an employee

at 8:00 wake up , get ready ASAP to go to work, get dressed find a taxi

8:30 AM - 1:00 PM (work if there is a programming task assigned to me, otherwise, try to get a task and keep bugging the teamleader until i get one )

-- around 9:00 take a coffee break , we used to go to the kitchen and make 3-in-one nescafee and chat "of course this process takes around 15 minutes because we are making nescafe for 15 employee which is the number of my closests friends there).

1:00 - 2:00 phone all the co-workers or make a visit to their offices to ask what they want to eat for luch, get all the orders and hand them to the team leader to buy food at lunch break or call resturant and ask for delivery "if resturnat provides one".

2:00 - 3:00 eat lunch and chat with my co-workers and friends .. communicate and laugh.

3:00 - 7:00 PM work again and keep working until i finish all what i had to do (the working hours end at 6:00 but the extra hour is just for me)

7:00 PM- 8:00 PM hang out with the friends ... go to some nice resturant and eat and try to relax.

at 8:00 PM - 8:30 PM back to home make another mug of 3-in-one nescafe and pretend that this is a new day, talk to my sister and see what did she do with her day at work.

8:30 PM - 2:00 AM study, work on projects, do research for the thesis, and edit research papers before publishing them ...etc.

2:00 AM sleep and relax
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Todays routine (in Saudi Arabia working in a IT company that does not appreciate me at all but at least i am with my family now)

at 6:40 AM wake up "trying not to but forced to wake up by my young brothers to get ready for work"

-- eat breakfast "corn flakes or at leat drink a cup of milk"

7:30 AM - 8:00 AM
drink a 3-in-1 nescafe mug, check email and chat with friends online

8:00 AM - 4:30 PM
work , ask for the raise i was promised of three times before 6 months and did not had it yet, help co-workers with their work to meet customer's deadline.

5:00 PM - finally at home .... eat lunch , a rest for 30 minutes and then watch Dr Phill

7:00 PM - 8:00 PM walk on the treadmill until i burn 250K and in the meantime ... reading "currently i am reading principle-centered leadership by stephen covey"

8:00 - 9:00 watch staracademy
9:00 - 10:00 talk with my family , or watch oprah winfry

10:00 PM sleep and get ready for next day..

pretty boring routine right?

[newdad]

5 am - 6am Get up stretch, bike 20-30 minutes
6am-6:30 amshower, make breakfast, pack lunch, eat
6:30am -7:15 am commute
7:15 am-8 am brief journal then work on writing either novel or post on blog
8 am-4 pm work
4pm -5pm commute
5pm -7pm cook dinner, eat, take son to park
7pm -8:30 pmwatch son, watch tv, feed son
8:30pm -10 pm put son to bed, read, get ready for bed

[pinkhighlighter]

I have to say, some of your daily routines are impressive and I love that because I want more than anything else to fit more into my day. I am too lazy and distractable, but I am working on that.

9am: wake up, read, eat something, hop on computer to check mail, blogs, forums etc.
10:30am-5pm: Write (I am a freelance writer).
Okay, okay, I admit I only actually write for like 2 of those hours. Other time is filled in by staring out the window, maybe a bit of reading which is okay, some more eating, more hopping off and online). Very unproductive. I am ashamed.
5pm: Make dinner, eat, bf is home, spend some time together.
7pm: Watch tv, back online some nights. Lately I come to this forum in the evenings which is good for me.
11pm-12am: Do some writing (I am vrey productive with my writing at this time).

[Ttrimm]

Hi, even though you only want one person's daily routine, I'm going to tell you all my family's. Here's my son's:

(Pretty much all he does is eating, sleeping, watching TV, and playing the computer. He's only 3 1/2 years old.)

Weekdays Daily Routine
7:00AM: There he goes, the first batch of TV.. he's going to watch Martha Speaks, Dora, and Curious George..
8:30AM: Oh no, looks like he's going to play his ol' computer.. no, he's eating breakfast, my homebaked chocolate chip cookies..
8:45AM: There he goes, now hours and hours of computer playing.. spend most of his time on Dailymotion..
11:00AM: He's going back downstairs, hope he's just bringing a snack. Oh no, it's just plain ol' TV... you know what he's gonna watch.. more Martha and Arthur..
12:00PM: Great, lunch.. His favorite.. macaroni and chesse.
12:30PM: There he goes, more TV, you know his favorite, Arthur..
1:00PM: There he goes, back on his computer.. upstairs...
3:00PM: Oh no! More TV... like these.. Arthur, Timothy Goes to School, Charlie & Lola, and Peep..
4:00PM: There he goes.. 30 minutes of computer time..
4:30PM: Oh no, back on TV.. you know what, George, Martha, Maggie and the Ferocious Beast and even more Arthur again...
6:00PM: Better, dinnertime..
7:00PM: Back on computer...
9:30PM: Nighty-night, son..

Weekends
7:00AM: Wakey, wakey! Now again, TV, he has to watch the following: Martha, Clifford, Peep and George..
8:30AM: There he goes.. more of my chocolate chip cookies breakfast.. darn..
9:00AM: There again.. more Arthur..
9:30AM: More computer..
12:00PM: Lunchtime for son..
1:00PM: more computer
3:30pm: more tv arthur
4:00pm: more computer
6:00pm: dinner
7:00pm: computer
9:00pm: sleep

My sister's routine (She's 18, in college)

5:30AM: Wake up. Do Tai Chi for 30 minutes, relaxing
6:00AM: Get back in bed for extra sleep
6:30AM: Wake up again, eat breakfast.
7:00AM: Brush teeth
7:15AM: Get dressed
7:30AM: Catch the bus
7:45AM: Get to college
8:00AM: Work
12:00PM: Lunch break
1:00PM: Back to work
2:30PM: On the Internet and chat on MySpace
3:00PM: Check e-mails and make phone calls to buddies
3:30PM: Get back to work
6:00PM: Dinner break.
7:30PM: Get home from college
8:00PM: Watch CSI
9:00PM: Spend time and chat with husband
10:00PM: Go on Virtual Assistant Forums
11:00PM: Have a cup of coffee
12:30AM: Watch a movie on TV
1:30AM: Sleep

My daily routine
6:30AM: Wake up. Do pilates.
7:00AM: Watch anime
7:30AM: Brush teeth
7:45AM: Floss teeth
7:50AM: Have breakfast
8:15AM: Take for a drive to work
9:00AM: Work
12:00PM: Lunch break
1:00PM: Go on Steve Pavlina Forums!
2:00PM: Drive home
2:30PM: Have a cup of tea
3:00PM: Take for a walk outside
4:00PM: Watch a reality TV show
5:30PM: Go to dance class
6:00PM: Eat dinner with sister and son
7:00PM: Spend time with husband
7:30PM: Read a book
8:00PM: Watch TV together
9:00PM: Chat with husband
9:30PM: Go back on Steve Pavlina Forums!
10:00PM: Watch a movie on TV
12:30PM: Go to sleep with husband

[Lena Carpenter]

5:30am Alarm goes off. I wake up, usually stay in bed for extra 20 minutes to put son back to sleep (he is 1 and a half)
6am Meditate for 10 minutes. Do my yoga routine. Read yoga philosophy or Abraham or any other spiritual teaching. Alternatively, yoga class at the gym.
7am Son wakes up and I hang out with him for a while. Shower. Get myself dressed. Get him dressed. Make breakfast. Usually takes a while to get him to eat it. I guess he is just not a breakfast person.
8am Work on some projects. Really, I can maybe fit in about two hours of these. Sometimes, I wish I had a place to go do them, cause son tends to hang around with me, which can be distracting.
12pm Lunch and nap time for son. Nap for me on most days, about half an hour.
1pm An hour of free time for me. Draw or write.
3pm - Depending on the day, I go for a walk, exercise or volunteer (a couple of times a week)
6pm - Dinner, which includes cooking and cleaning up
7pm - Class three times a week or study if I'm at home. Reading and listening to radio. Internet.
8pm - Cleaning up
9pm - Son goes to sleep. Sometimes, he doesn't until later. On the days that he does, I try to do something relaxing such as meditate or do relaxing yoga. And sometimes I'm on the Internet, like right now
10-11pm Off to bed!

[InterfaceLeader]

7am - 8am: Wake up, eat breakfast, get dressed etc etc.

8am-8.30am: Commute to work

8.30am - 2pm: Work day

2pm - 2.30pm: Commute home - run any errands in town I need to (e.g. post office)

2.30pm - 3pm: Cuddle and appreciate my spouse, make tea.

3pm - 5/6pm: Work on webdesign business / freelance work.

5/6pm - 7pm: Make and eat dinner.

7pm - 8.30pm: Relax. Either play a video game, surf online or watch a movie or whatever. This is 'me' time.

8.30pm - 9.30pm: Do household chores, make lunch for next day, wash dishes, etc etc.

9.30pm - 10pm: Take a bath, read a book.

10pm - ???: In bed with spouse, discuss day, snuggle etc etc

??? - sleep.

[PeaceCat]

Nice idea, it's been nice to read everyone elses! My turn, I've bolded my fave bits

6.30am - wakey wakey, drink coffee, eat toast, enjoy the sunrise (at this time of year) turn on my laptop, do a little journaling, reading or (at the moment because I'm about to be laid off) apply for jobs online.

8am - shower, dress, make-up etc. drive to work

8.50 - get set up at my desk to start my workday as a secretary (won’t bore you with details LOL).

5.30pm - back at home, do a super quick house tidy-up.

6pm - do some yoga and/or go for a walk, quality time with DH, dinner time, watch a little TV, lounge around - in no particular order!

10pm onwards - work on personal & side projects, or help DH with some of his business stuff - he is a night owl and does his best work from around 10pm onwards and he likes to bounce ideas of me until I start falling asleep.

11.45 - pre-bed rituals (clean up messy kitchen, brush teeth, choose outfit for tomorrow).

12.15 – beddy-byes, I like to spend a moment reviewing my day and focusing on making tomorrow even better!

2-3 am – (sometimes) get rudely awakened by DH falling into bed, often wanting to discuss a great idea he had, followed by snuggle time

p.s. I sometimes need a nap after work due to being woken by DH in the middle of the night

p.p.s. I basically turn into a cat at weekends, it's all about food, sleep & recharging batteries

[pdfsp]

ok, here is mine "routine":

8am - get up, breakfast, teeth brushing, cycle to university
9.30am - 10.45 - in class
11am - 2pm - studying, doing reading and just chillin on the sun, eating a healthy snack
2pm - 3.15 - in class
3.30 - 4.30 - gym
5 - 6pm - probably the most relaxing part of my day - cooking!!
6 - 6.30pm - feeling drowsy after food, having a cup of green tea, doing emails,
6.30pm - 7pm - a little bit of planning for the rest of the day, set clear goals what I want to do and learn,
7pm - 2am - back at University lab, studying, working on projects, programming, thinking, having something to eat ( I hate that they close the lab at 2am, way too early!)

well, I gues that's it, what I want to introduce to my daily routine are special hours or 30min periods of time, where I would read a non-myDegree related book, learn about the company that I'm going to work soon, and a business hour when I would brainstorm some ideas for possible new products