So it's been a couple months without any new posts and there is a big reason for that: I struggle with being productive in my free time. Obviously that is a big problem for someone that is hoping for eventually be self-employed. I've never been a particularly productive person in my free time but now that I have a family, it's so much harder than ever to be productive at all with my free time so I've been striving to find a solution. I've tried devising a couple of systems but they've all kind of failed before they got off the ground because they all revolved around doing things at a specific time which is impossible when you have a family.
I've begun working on something I call a "Productivity Point System". It's basically to help me get things accomplished better. I've been doing it for 2 weeks and what I'm finding so far is that I'm still not doing anymore music than I was. Mainly I'm just getting the normal things done that I always do like chores and stuff but there has been some improvement in other areas. Like reading my Bible is one of the things on the list and I've been doing that some and I hadn't been doing that at all for a long time. I also put playing piano on the list and I've been putting some good effort into that. Really the things that I still don't get done are the things that are hard to do while the baby is sleeping because of noise.
I suppose I should explain to you what this point system is, if only so you can understand what I've been talking about. Essentially I made a list of 11 different categories of things that I want to try and do every week. And then I made an estimate of how often I should or would like to get each of those things done in a given week, regardless of when in the week any of those things take place. For example Chores has 10 possible points while Piano only has 2. There's a total of 33 points available in the system, though I keep tweaking it. The ultimate goal is obviously to get all 33 points. Another part of the idea is that I won't do something more often than the system says I should, except maybe chores. So I won't practice Piano 5 times a week because that is then taking too much possible time away from other categories. In the first two weeks I've been doing this I've only gotten 11 points each week. That's not very good but it definitely leaves room for improvement. Right now it's just sort of fun to see how much I can build on that. I'll keep you posted on how I'm doing with this.
