Comments on: Don’t Work Weekends, Learn to Take Breaks http://www.wangarific.com/dont-work-weekends-learn-to-take-breaks/ the internet is always open Tue, 17 Aug 2010 17:38:13 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Patrick http://www.wangarific.com/dont-work-weekends-learn-to-take-breaks/comment-page-1/#comment-274 Patrick Fri, 22 Jan 2010 03:54:15 +0000 http://www.wangarific.com/?p=330#comment-274 That's the difficult thing about working a full-time job + having a blog that requires a lot of attention. I work a lot of nights and weekends. But I noticed performance improvements when I started placing limits on the times I would actually work. Now I have dedicated evening and weekend time to work, and other time that is just for relaxing and for family. It's not ideal in the sense that full time blogging with limits would be ideal, but it is a vast improvement of allowing the blogging time to expand into every second of the day. If you can't make it work without weekends, at least set limits. Your family and your sanity will thank you! That’s the difficult thing about working a full-time job + having a blog that requires a lot of attention. I work a lot of nights and weekends. But I noticed performance improvements when I started placing limits on the times I would actually work. Now I have dedicated evening and weekend time to work, and other time that is just for relaxing and for family. It’s not ideal in the sense that full time blogging with limits would be ideal, but it is a vast improvement of allowing the blogging time to expand into every second of the day.

If you can’t make it work without weekends, at least set limits. Your family and your sanity will thank you!

]]> By: jim http://www.wangarific.com/dont-work-weekends-learn-to-take-breaks/comment-page-1/#comment-271 jim Mon, 18 Jan 2010 20:23:48 +0000 http://www.wangarific.com/?p=330#comment-271 And that downtime is absolutely crucial because it lets your brain recover and work more efficiently whenever you are on the clock. Plus, work always swells up to the time you budget for it. :) And that downtime is absolutely crucial because it lets your brain recover and work more efficiently whenever you are on the clock. Plus, work always swells up to the time you budget for it. :)

]]> By: Jeremy http://www.wangarific.com/dont-work-weekends-learn-to-take-breaks/comment-page-1/#comment-270 Jeremy Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:08:25 +0000 http://www.wangarific.com/?p=330#comment-270 This is the first thing I did when I made the decision to go full-time. I sat down and drew up a weekly work schedule so that I had a clear definition of what was to be worked on and when. With a number of writing and other business related tasks all competing for time it's easy to just work whenever you're sitting at the computer. Days, nights, weekends, whatever. That just isn't healthy. So far I've been able to stick to the schedule pretty well and it's allowing me to get most of my work done during the hours I'd normally be at work, freeing up time in the evenings, and allowing me to completely turn my brain off on the weekends if I want to. This is the first thing I did when I made the decision to go full-time. I sat down and drew up a weekly work schedule so that I had a clear definition of what was to be worked on and when. With a number of writing and other business related tasks all competing for time it’s easy to just work whenever you’re sitting at the computer. Days, nights, weekends, whatever. That just isn’t healthy.

So far I’ve been able to stick to the schedule pretty well and it’s allowing me to get most of my work done during the hours I’d normally be at work, freeing up time in the evenings, and allowing me to completely turn my brain off on the weekends if I want to.

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