{"id":3985,"date":"2017-07-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albrechtpartners.com\/turn-your-bad-day\/"},"modified":"2023-11-08T00:00:50","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T00:00:50","slug":"turn-your-bad-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albrechtpartners.com\/en\/turn-your-bad-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Turn your bad day into a valuable day by\u2026doing nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"

In general I think of myself as well organised and hard working.<\/strong> Today I woke up too late, because the night before, I worked until 2AM. I skipped my morning spinning, because I didn\u2019t manage to squeeze any workout in before my 10AM meeting. Then I was supposed to work on a creative project, but I felt this awkward numbness. Empty head. Everything felt distant. I couldn\u2019t focus on any piece of writing. I was looking at my computer screen \u2013 mindlessly scrolling through social media. And so it went for hours. I wasn\u2019t OK with that. Huge guilt kept arising inside my head. This annoying feeling that is pushing me to do something productive. But being creative under pressure? That\u2019s almost impossible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So how to deal with those feelings of \u201ctime wasting\u201d & \u201clow productivity\u201d<\/strong>. My conclusions are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Prevent those days from happening by protecting your inner balance.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sleep is more important than any other \u201cto-do\u201d.<\/strong> Setting a deadline for going to bed is as important as setting your alarm clock in the morning. If not more so. You can literally mark it in your calendar. Personally I feel at my best when sleeping for around 7 hours. After I realised that, I immediately set myself an evening deadline (e.g. at 11PM).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. Don\u2019t panic if you feel it\u2019s been an unproductive day.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Accepting the feeling of having a worse day is the beginning of turning it into a better day. Pressurizing yourself too much brings no good. It\u2019s this spiral of thoughts and self-blame. You feel unable to move and guilty of not moving at the same time.<\/strong> The only way is to admit: \u201cI don\u2019t feel like working right now, I\u2019d better read something or go for a walk\u201d. The worst that can happen is this idle state in-between when you\u2019re neither working nor relaxing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. When it\u2019s over \u2013 search for golden nuggets.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of a day like that look thoroughly at what you\u2019ve done. This \u201cwaste of time\u201d or \u201cnothing\u201d you have achieved may actually include some valuable and important findings<\/strong>. If not from your work tasks, then from personal ones. As an example \u2013 today, besides constantly feeling unproductive, I managed to: speak about unexpected future projects with 3 acquaintances, revised 2 speeches I\u2019ve been working on, searched and discovered the foundation I\u2019ll support, spent some quality time talking with my fiancee. Plus, and not less important, I got into conclusions I\u2019ve just described in this post. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, there is no one right way to spend time. Not only tasks matter, but anything that can enrich you. Don\u2019t be so judgmental and hard on yourself. We, entrepreneurs, tend to feel guilty while not running like a cheetah after our business goals. All round the clock. Sometimes it\u2019s better to slow down, because it may turn out that some tasty deal is within our reach the whole time, and if we run too fast, we might miss it.<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In general I think of myself as well organised and hard working. Today I woke up too late, because the night before, I worked until 2AM. I skipped my morning spinning, because I didn\u2019t manage to squeeze any workout in before my 10AM meeting. Then I was supposed to work on a creative project, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3986,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bez-kategorii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albrechtpartners.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albrechtpartners.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albrechtpartners.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albrechtpartners.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albrechtpartners.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/albrechtpartners.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albrechtpartners.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albrechtpartners.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albrechtpartners.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albrechtpartners.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}