The video talking about the delineation between work and non-work time really hit home with me. I have been struggling with this for many years. Because I generally work from home and online, it is much harder to create those boundaries. Moreover, because my students are working adults, I have to take their work schedules into account and be available when they are available. This means that I work off and on 6 days a week anywhere from 8am to 9pm with no set schedule. The best I have been able to do is carve out Sundays as "work-free".
Robyn, I can definitely relate to your struggle when it comes to working remotely! I've been dealing with that for many years now, and it's even more challenging now as as an ordained minister. It's very tempting to spend every waking hour trying to knock more things off the "to-do" list. One of the practices that I've found very helpful is similar to what was mentioned in the video -- setting a specific amount of time for a project/task and committing to stopping whenever I reach that time, regardless of whether the task is finished or not. Of course, it's really hard for me to put things down and it takes a lot of discipline to be able to do it consistently.
Thank you for the encouragement. I really need to do better about managing my time. Before the pandemic, everything felt much more structured. Now, one day flows into the next, which makes it feel like you are never really delineating between work and rest. Of course, now my academic brain is thinking about how to turn this into an Action Research study- hahahaha!
The video talking about the delineation between work and non-work time really hit home with me. I have been struggling with this for many years. Because I generally work from home and online, it is much harder to create those boundaries. Moreover, because my students are working adults, I have to take their work schedules into account and be available when they are available. This means that I work off and on 6 days a week anywhere from 8am to 9pm with no set schedule. The best I have been able to do is carve out Sundays as "work-free".
ReplyDeleteRobyn, I can definitely relate to your struggle when it comes to working remotely! I've been dealing with that for many years now, and it's even more challenging now as as an ordained minister. It's very tempting to spend every waking hour trying to knock more things off the "to-do" list. One of the practices that I've found very helpful is similar to what was mentioned in the video -- setting a specific amount of time for a project/task and committing to stopping whenever I reach that time, regardless of whether the task is finished or not. Of course, it's really hard for me to put things down and it takes a lot of discipline to be able to do it consistently.
DeleteThank you for the encouragement. I really need to do better about managing my time. Before the pandemic, everything felt much more structured. Now, one day flows into the next, which makes it feel like you are never really delineating between work and rest. Of course, now my academic brain is thinking about how to turn this into an Action Research study- hahahaha!
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