Lots of work getting ready for a big event. =) Surprisingly still managed to get a lot of sleep, at the cost of giving up other discretionary activities. But it's for a good cause, and it's temporary anyway.

Blog posts

• Weekly review: Week ending September 12, 2014
• Getting ready for my third fiscal year end
• Dealing with feeling under the weather
• Things to tweak or try this winter
• Programming and creativity
• Learning from the Alternative Uses Task

Sketches

• 2014-09-14 Dealing with feeling under the weather

Link round-up

• How to Become Your Own Life Coach with Fourteen Simple Strategies: Useful practices.
• My Next 10 Years of Blogging: More fleshing out of his plans for masterworks. =)
• Postgres Window Functions: Ooh, neat. Should try these someday.
• Using String Replace in JavaScript: Oh, I didn't know you could use functions for replacement. That should make my code cleaner.
• Some things I want my kids to learn: So awesome. Mel will totally rock someday.
• Make some org-sections read-only: Hmm, might be handy.
• On Using TagTime: The benefits of stochastic time tracking.
• Mindful Virtue by Ben Butina: Attention and skill.

Focus areas and time review

Wow, almost 60 hours of consulting. And lots of sleep, actually – 9.3 hours on average, with a 13-hour stretch on one of those days. Intense thinking makes my brain tired. =) Hardly any discretionary time, but that's okay; sprint, not marathon. More delivered food than I've had the rest of the year, I think. So this is what my schedule looks like when I pare it down to the essentials so that I can focus on work…

• Business (62.3h – 37%)
  • ☑ E1: Prepare for stuff
  • ☐ Earn: E1: Big event
  • Earn (57.5h – 92% of Business)
  • Build (3.4h – 5% of Business)
    • Drawing (1.9h)
    • Delegation (0.0h)
    • Packaging (0.1h)
    • Paperwork (1.4h)
  • Connect (1.3h – 2% of Business)
• Relationships (4.6h – 2%)
• Discretionary – Productive (2.8h – 1%)
  • Emacs (0.0h – 0% of all)
  • ☑ Pay Mastercard
  • Writing (1.3h)
• Discretionary – Play (1.0h – 0%)
• Personal routines (20.6h – 12%)
• Unpaid work (11.3h – 6%)
• Sleep (65.4h – 38% – average of 9.3 per day)