🔥 Share your typical working schedule!
Natalie Karakina
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Hi, community!
Today my top priority is to set up a schedule that will be balanced.
Today my typical working days look like this:
– 10:00 am – 12:00 pm – meetings
– 12:00 pm – 02:00 pm – working with numbers
– 02:00 pm – 03:00 pm – lunch
– 03:00 pm – 07:00 pm – creative work
– 07:00 pm – 08:00 pm – planning
What's about yours?
What tips do you have for my schedule?
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Elizabeth Ruzzo@elizabeth_ruzzo
Great question! I'm a founder of a distributed/remote health tech startup.
Early mornings: Deep work; Morning-Early afternoon: Meetings; Afternoon-Evening: Follow-up from meetings and more deep work; Night: Planning and clearing inbox/asana.
I'm now trying to batch focus (and meetings) by topic. It's helped a ton.
Monday: Technical Product
Tuesday: Product
Wednesday: Growth & Content
Thursday: Networking & Finance
Friday: People operations
Weekends: Strategy & Catch up
Share
7:00 am - 9:00 am - my side project
9:30 am - 6:00 pm - my job
after 6:00 pm usually life (occasionally side project again)
I don't have a typical day. I am usually up at 4am. Then I catch the train to Seattle around 526. Work on the train. Get to Seattle around 645-7am. With the HR Tech startup, podcast and the volunteer work at www.bunkerlabs.org my days are pretty full.
I have been doing my best to go from just being busy to being productive. I usually catch the 630pm train home and get to the house around 745pm. I try to wind down. But usually I just do more work. I realize this is probably not the best schedule as far as taking care of myself.
Thanks for sharing! Your calendar looks very productive with long enough chunks of focus times being nicely deployed. 1 hr planning block at the end of the day is especially good.
My day typically looks like:
– 7:00 am – 8:00 am – clear inbox
– 8:00 am – 9:30 am – high priority work
– 9:30 am – 11:30 am – meetings
– 11:30 am – 12:00 pm – reply messages
– 12:00 pm – 01:00 pm – lunch
– 02:00 pm – 05:00 pm – work (as much as possible)
– 05:00 pm – 07:00 pm – meetings
I try to do next-day planning before I go to bed. Maybe I should try to make it blocked in my calendar.
Nice question!
I try to be productive in the mornings, then push all of my meetings/calls to after 12pm and do boring stuff later in the day.
Before Lunch > All meetings.
After Lunch > Deep or creative work.
Evenings > Wrapping up any leftovers and planning next day.
There are so many hats and context switches that happens so had to divide my week like @elizabeth_ruzzo
Monday - Tuesday > Product
Wednesday - Thursday > Growth
Friday > People operations
I'm basically spending my day in meetings, and hanging out on PH, LinkedIn, Twitter and Hacker News to stay aware of what's going on in the entrepreneurial world
From Dusk till Dawn
Hahaha, for real, when I wake up and have my coffee. It's about 10am in the morning and then all day work with a break for socialising in the afternoon and then work till 2-3 am in the morning. This is my start up life routine. Wake up, put away fires and sleep when I can. Not a very motivating one, but this is how it is for me 😊
9:00-10: 00 Beginning of work. Analysis of the work plan and prioritization of tasks
10: 00-10: 25 General meeting with the team. Discussion of tasks and plans
10:30 - 13:00 The most productive working hours. I do the most difficult and priority tasks
13: 00-14: 00 Lunch. I eat and listen to podcasts.
14: 00-16: 00 Working on the rest of the tasks for the day.
16: 00-17: 00 Analysis of the work performed, discussions with the team and plans for the next working day.
And of course, at the end of the working day, i like to play a table football or playstation.
interesting
8-10 planning the day doing long term tasks. 10-14 meetings. 14-18 working on small scheduled community tasks. 18 - till wake up - recharging)
9:00 - 10:00 Beginning of my work, work plan and the most important tasks
10:00 - 14:00 - Meetings and tasks for the first product
14:00 - 15:00 - Lunch + Instagram feed :)
15:00 - 16:00 - Reading news - PH, FB, LinkedIn, etc.
16:00 - 18:00 - Tasks for the second product
10:00 - 11:00 - Meetings
11:00 - 1:30 - Finish Most important work of the day assigned to me
1:30 - 2: 15 - Lunch
2: 15 - 4:00 - Continue working on finishing most important work of the day 😛
4:00 - 7:00 - Finish other works with low priorities
7:00 - 7:30 - Planning for next day
8am - 1 pm: generally the toughest tasks, analytics meetings.
1 pm-3 pm: lunch break and relax
3 pm- 7 pm: creative work and social media
7 pm - 9 pm: workout, gardening or personal projects
I try to follow up this schedule. Keep it as my habit asap
5:45-7:00 Join online yoga class
7:00-7:30 Meditate, drink water, water plants
7:30-8:00 Have a break fast
8:00-8:30 Plan to-do list
9:00-9:20 Daily meeting
9:20- 12:30 Work
12:30-14:00 Break
14:00-18:00 Work
In the evening: Cook, read book,etc