Why do I want to set 100% of my own schedule in my career?
Well it’s not just my career, but overall as well. It seems like everyone who is a solopreneur limits their times to connect with someone to only a couple days of the week. Most commonly I’ve seen Tuesdays and Thursdays. I think I want to include more days than just 2 days to connect. Which is what I currently have.
Connecting with multiple people per week now that I haven’t done before. I will say that’s what starting a business has allowed me to do that I haven’t done before.
What about the rest of the schedule? Like having time to get stuff done.
[Side note: when I’m running a company and there are employees working there, I’m going to set a culture of time management, calendar management to get the most of someone’s potential.]
Deep work time for myself, light work time, etc. I want to have a balance of deep work and meetings on the same day so that I don’t get burnt out in a day on one end of the spectrum or the other.
But since I know I’ll continue adapting my preferences over time, I almost have to build that into the schedule and change that structure up every month or quarter. Probably quarter. That way, I feel like some novelty.
I’ll be open to getting work done or meeting with people on the weekends, so it’s flexible. But of course, that’s limited if I have weekend plans.
Why to the original question though? Maybe because I’ve felt like (and actually haven’t) dictated 100% of my own schedule growing up. It’s the school setting my schedule, then the college, then the workplace, especially the larger the company, the less control you usually have in your calendar. It’s only during (and the lower position you have) the holiday breaks that I got to set my own schedule, and even then I was interning or working.
No wonder people look forward to the weekend so much. They have 100% control of their time. We’ve been controlled by others for our most valuable commodity and we seek the freedom to leverage it how we want to. Of course, people can go work elsewhere but it’s just somewhere on this spectrum of time management control from 0% to 100%.
So let’s say I’m awake for 17 hours in a day. I’m not working for 8-9 hours of those. Let’s say I have 8 hours where I’m fully in control. Then of those 9 work hours, I have control of what I do for 3-6 hours, on average. Of course that’s tactically. Everything in those 9 hours is obviously confined to my profession and industry. So those 9 hours I don’t have as much control over macro-perspective.
But then again, looking even more macro, I do if I wanted to do whatever I wanted to earn money. It’s just a series of alternating control / no control the further up or down you go in scope.
I’ve also gotten way better at time management in those non-work hours of what I want to be doing that I want to get there in the next couple / few years.
Since I’ve been practicing that on the micro and getting better at it, then when I do have that increased freedom, I’ll be a master.
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