This is writing with extreme frustration of tired w myself,I been seeing folks who are working like 12-16 hrs day 80hrs a week,from a student perspective isn't that really possible ?

I'm having hellla free time but can't even put 3-4 hrs daily,any senior folks would love take free insights!!!!

I am a student and I feel so burnt out cause I never find time at all so let me tell you about my routine

6:30-8 - wakeup, get ready and go to school

8-2 - school

2-3 - Commute I get home by 3

3-4 - Shower, Eat, unwind

5-6 - nap

7-9 - study

9-9:30 - Dinner

9:30-11 scroll

like I have no time for anything except my studies so where do my extracurriculars go? If i wanna go to the gym where does that go? I keep scrolling at night till 11 and I cant skip my nap or else I go insane Please recommend time management skills

hi! last year in university i used word for my notes during lectures. however this became a bit messy and tedious when i had 5 other files for every subjects lectures, the homework, the projects, etc. etc. i use my macbook as it's easy to carry and i'm wondering what people think a good, organized, easy to follow notes app would be.

I've tried obsidian but find it hard to use, the semester started today and i took my notes for now in word but i wanna switch this first week. if it helps to know i do psychology so that includes some mathematics notes sometimes too (though i usually just screenshot the formula's now). i have an ipad but i do not write quickly enough to comfortably follow the lectures for this, i do tend to take over my notes from the computer onto paper for studying but i find digital very important for making tests for myself and sharing with other students.

thank you so much for the suggestions!

:/ It’s midday, and I’ve maybe opened 2 emails to get some small tasks out the way.

Usually I’m very motivated at work and pushing to get things done, but I’ve been struggling like crazy the past month or so. I constantly find myself using any excuse to not actually do my work or push it to the last minute. Have also made a habit of leaving the office for any little inconvenience

I’ve dealt with some fatigue before, usually take a week off. Come back, all good. But it’s been nearly 5 weeks of putting in the bare minimum - and it’s starting to show across my team / staff.

I’ve gotta get out this funk, but I’m struggling with actually opening up my computer and doing the work.

Not sure if this is the right sub, but would appreciate any advice for anyone who has dealt with this before … thank you guys 🙏

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For context, I manage a small Estimating / Sales Team & an Accounting Team for a Construction 🚧 Company. Total staff of 8.

I feel like I've tried everything. I get a good nights sleep every night. I have a positive attitude. I eat well. I go for walks and get out the house. I've been working on having positive self talk. I'm medicated for my anxiety. I'm working on my communication skills. I'm eating breakfast properly for the first time in years. I've had mentors. I've had therapists. I've tried body doubling and staring at a wall and working for "just 5 minutes" and breaking things down into steps and cutting my social media use to a measly 5- 10 minutes per day. I've watched a bunch of videos and read articles on productivity from all different angles. I have a variety of hobbies. I have friends.

And yet it is like there is this mental barrier in my mind that stops me from doing anything that requires brainpower or skill. I am fairly certain I have ADHD and I know how it works but as time goes on it looks less and less like executive dysfunction or struggling starting tasks or an issue of attention span and more like my body goes into freeze mode the moment I have to do anything. When I was younger I used to be your classical ADHD child. I was forgetful, I put off homework, I was overly chatty and I would hyperfocus on games and tv shows and art for hours. Now, it's like all I know is this overwhelming mental paralysis. Like I cannot access the part of me that has interest or controls my ability to do things anymore. I don't know if maybe it's a self esteem thing or if I just have pavloved myself into freezing up in the face of anything that requires effort. It's to the point that when I try force through the feeling I just break down in tears.

Honestly it's just confusing to me that I'm doing a lot correctly and I feel like I'm not getting anywhere. I never used to be this bad but after covid I got so much worse.

I'm wondering if anyone else has had this and has some advice. The more esoteric, the better. I'll try anything at this point.

19F

Just 2 days ago, I had a lot of things to get done. I submitted my final coursework for review, uploaded some Shorts for my Shorts channel, and later that same day I got my period.

Since then, I’ve basically chosen comfort over being productive, and I genuinely hate it.

I have so many things I could be doing. I could work on my long form channel, work on my other channel, or study because I have final exams this month but instead, I’ve been sitting around scrolling through Shorts

What bothers me the most is that I’m literally aware of what I’m doing. I know I’m wasting time. I know I have things I need to do. I know I’ll feel better once I actually get up and do them.

And yet I still pick up my phone and scroll.

I don’t even feel like I’m enjoying it anymore. I’ll scroll for a while, realize I’ve wasted another hour, feel guilty about it, and then... keep scrolling.

Part of me is wondering if it’s because of my period and I genuinely needed a couple of days to rest, or if I’m just being lazy and using it as an excuse. Either way, I don’t like being stuck in this cycle.

I’m even considering forcing myself to leave the house and work somewhere else just to change my environment but realistically, if I want to record videos, I need to be at home anyway, and I can study at home too.

So how do I actually break out of this?

I’m tired of watching myself waste time and doing absolutely nothing about it.

Originally I had a weekly schedule where my dinner was at 7. I work from home, so when I finished at like 5:30, I figured I would relax from 5:30-7 (catch up with phone, games, etc.). Although I mostly just doom scrolled. I didn’t wanna be productive right after work.

However, since I ate at 7, and finished the break at 8. My break sometimes was just gaming or doom scrolling. Normally I didn’t workout because I thought to myself, by the time I workout and shower, it’s bed time and I’ll have no free time to be productive. I also didn’t want to workout on a full stomach.

Last month I changed my weekly schedule to put dinner at 6. That way, I only relax after work for 30 minutes. Not only that, I started going on a walk after dinner (Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday). Nothing intense and sometimes I do bodybuilding after coming back. So by the time I come back and finish showering at 9, I have time to be productive before bed (at 12).

Because of that, now on the other days I don’t walk, I am even more productive. I am single and live alone so this schedule change isn’t a problem.

I sticked to this schedule consistently in August and did:

* read 8 books (physical, audio)
* 23 workouts between 18 days
* Completed a lot of my iOS app

My vacation break of one month is about to come up in one or two weeks and I don't want to waste it just sleeping or doing nothing. I plan to continue learning drawing from the drawabox course, learn programming as much as I can from mobile phone, finish all my assignments quickly first so that I don't procrastinate and just do some 30 or 40 minutes home work out everyday to get healthier. I plan to do whatever I want with the free time I have since I don't want it to be too tiring. Any advice on if I should change something or add something? Like are these too much or too little? Any other advices you can give relating to the things I plan to do?

Seriously, think about it- every major app you use today is designed entirely around convenience and making things immediately available.

Insta, TikToc, YouToob, Uber... it goes on.

Every app is designed to provide an immediate hook, or as the corpos call it (ROI).

So sometimes, try to search for things outside of these platforms. Immediate satisfaction in excess has never been good.

I have a folder on my desktop where I keep lists of my personal goals - and in one section is what I like to call my "Why Not's" - as in, things I want to do at least once in my life. (It's inspired by filmmaker Kevin Smith's advice that you should have friends who respond to your goals and aspirations with, Yeah, why not?) Examples include: "Write a screenplay"; "Write a song"; "Develop a sense of fashion".

What are your "Why Not's"?

Some things I want to do but never seem to know how to get done:

- Go through and cancel subscriptions and research best options for the ones I need and utilities/insurance/etc.

- resell the boxes clothes/items I know would be worth the time to list and publish for sale.

- wash my walls/ceilings/mattresses/couches/rugs/nooks and crannies

- update my resume and portfolio

- make needed appointments for myself and family

- detail my car

- digital declutter

- go through kids artwork and create a system for keep/trash… display keeps by making books/collages, etc.

Many more unfortunately.

Not looking for advice! Just curious what tasks others are facing in a similar way.

I have my exam on 5th. And i can't sit for more than 25 mins. There's a lot of distractionsss what do i do!!?

I come home from school eat lunch then sleep till 7 pm, wake up then train for a bit and finally go sleep at 12 then go back to sleep. Legit no productivity in my day to day life this is a repeated cycle everyday and i have issues with it bi know i need to change it i cant just sit around all day and do nothing. What do you guys recommend i should do??

Hi all, I have the awkward problem of workaholism or unhealthy and compulsive “productivity.” I have CPTSD and have suffered a number of traumatic losses. I was a parentified child and took care of everyone in a dysfunctional household. My dad died very young of addiction, brother took his own life, mom is declining swiftly from a cruel genetic condition, sister is positive for same gene mutation while I’m negative. I’m beginning to realize I’ve dealt with my trauma and grief and heartbreak over the years by burying that pain beneath huge projects and things I can control in my career and leadership.

I’m 41, mid-career and in a high level position, generally viewed as a “model of success” in my unit, but I’m so disassociated from myself that I don’t even know what I want anymore. My body is also suffering from years of compulsive pursuit of work and neglect of the things that bring me joy. People describe be as very ambitious, and on one hand I am— I’m very active and curious about the world and have lots of ideas, and more than an “ideas person” I’m pretty good at actualizing things and the work I do is actually really cool! Unfortunately I’m beginning to think at least 70% of that has been me operating in all-out avoidance mode.

How on earth do you actually slow down?

I feel like I’m hurtling forward on the momentum of my responsibilities and commitments and that there are truly no brakes on this thing. I worry I will (literally) die from this behavior eventually. I need to stop and rest but I can’t exactly quit everything because I’m financially responsible for my mom and her care as she declines.

Any guidance and compassion is appreciated, having a real tough start to the week.

As a solopreneur I tend to do everything myself. I don't have anybody to report to but I love when i get myself a partner to check up on me and pressure me to show my work or scold me when I don't. For me personally, it keeps me focused because I have somebody to report to and its a good game I like playing. It keeps me sharp and moving fast because I signed up for this.

If you never tried this what do you think? What part of your life would you want to try this out on?

I’m trying to get into reading motivational growth inspiring books but I’m having trouble staying focused.. I feel like they’re boring sometimes most of them just talk about themselves or random little stories here and there with some advice, like if it was a novel like a book that has a story I’d be hooked

My phone needs to work around me, not the other way around

Living in Dubai, I have approximately 900 things going on at once.

Work. Messages. Notes. Random ideas at 2am. Photos I need to send someone. Basically everything feel like it's all happening at once.

And then there's the simple but important things like feeding the cats.

So when it comes to my phone, I don't need it to make me more 'productive' in some corporate LinkedIn way.

I just want it to make my life less annoying and more oganised.

That's honestly what I look for now, and is one of the reasons I bought the Fold8, to make use of the screen and androids automations and routines.

If something takes three taps instead of ten, I'm happy.

I want to improve myself but loneliness ,ppl behaviour and multiple things hurts me

I'm a college student , I want to work on my skills but When I go to college, I return from college to my home stay

I feel nervous, everyday something happens to me indirectly sometimes I observe people they have other people to have fun and talk while I'm talking to the person i meet due to the some event Or walking in the campus

No one considers me like a person comes directly to me and talks to me , there is small talk with some people but they have also friends or busy with their work

These things hurt me , give me nervousness,give me self doubt and after returning to the college these things continuously run in my mind

I work in healthcare.

The company I work for is looking at productivity and I am a People Manager.

I currently have a staff of 9 people who essentially make phone calls for most of the day.

Data and Maths people:

What would you feel would be the best representation for Productivity, in a formula form.

I have some numbers.

x would be completed calls. (any call that my staff gets through to the people for any specific time.)

y would be attempted calls. (any call that my staff makes but does a voice mail, etc.)

The company is looking for a productivity number of 120 per month.

I have higher productive people and lower productive people... but I need to evaluate them.

It is not as simple as "you must make 120 completed calls per month." My people have meetings, attempts, education, etc.

Any thoughts?

Most productivity setups get built during a burst of motivation, usually right after a reset: new semester, new job, new year. That burst is real, but it's temporary, and the system gets designed around it existing.

By week two or three, the motivation is gone but the system still assumes it's there. That's usually when people conclude the system failed and go build a new one, which just repeats the cycle.

The fix isn't a better system, it's a maintenance habit that doesn't depend on motivation to run: a recurring five-minute check where you compare what the system assumes you're doing to what you're actually doing, and adjust one thing. It's boring by design, which is the point, and boring is the only thing that still runs once the excitement is gone.

Hi apart from my studies(6 hours) and sleep(8 hours) and games(3 hours) the rest of the time I've is free and I end up doing nothing but scroll or waste time. I've no idea what do I start with.

I try to be productive but I get bored really fast.. and I need some distraction as well from my personal life too..

So I have realized that I spend a ridiculous amount of my time doing basically nothing productive. I probably have about 6 hours a day after school that I spend almost entirely playing video games. I dont even use any social media so its literally all gaming. Im academic so homework doesnt take me a lot of time, and I dont need to revise much. I run 2mi every day, and journal and read most days, but even then thats the vast minority of my time. Now I wanna like be more engaged in life instead of trying to escape from it. So what are some more enjoyable/productive ways I could spend my time?

As the title states I’ve been struggling with productivity at home but notice that I have no problem being productive for school. 

I’m not some workaholic go getter either. I do the bare minimum, I study a little bit, I stay on top of my assignments, and I get pretty okay grades. I sometimes procrastinate but it's usually me struggling with writing assignments due to brain fog and I always make sure to start early enough to get them done on time. 

The real problem is at home, especially during winter and summer breaks. I just do nothing. I spend all day in bed, or sitting at my desk or on the floor trying to force myself to do something. The entire time I just feel so overwhelmed yet empty and can’t bring myself to do anything no matter how much I want to. It’s been like this for years. To the point where entire summers and winters blend together because nothing got done and the majority of it was spent wanting to do things but never doing them.

It’s not even like the things I want to get done are important. I mainly just want to engage with my hobbies (Things like writing and playing guitar) but I just can’t get myself to and when I finally get myself to play for a few minutes I just feel so unsatisfied and numb and eventually stop, wondering what the point is. 

Sometimes I’ll have a good week (or usually just a couple of days) where I’m super motivated and engaged in my hobbies and they make me so happy that I can spend hours writing a song or playing a video game to the point where I forget to eat but then the motivation and joy it brings me eventually fades and I go back to feel numb and leaden. 

The last time I was really able to “overcome” this was last winter when I signed up for a roller derby boot camp because I wanted to do something and was so frustrated with myself for just sitting and feeling empty all day. I did it consistently for 4 hours every week for 4 months and had so much fun, but I would still go home after every session feeling empty and would return to my numb static self for the rest of the week. 

I’ve been trying to work on this stuff but not much is helping. I’m wondering if anyone has any advice or has experienced anything similar.