How do you follow a daily schedule without becoming discouraged?

4 points by Calist0 8 years ago | 1 comment

I have tried to follow a daily schedule and to-do list many times in the past, but never succeeded in sticking to it. It's discouraging to look at my schedule and know how much needs to be done, and to know that my entire day is planned ahead of time. Every time I try to follow a daily schedule I always end up avoiding it, because it's intimidating.

Have any fellow procrastinators succeeded in implementing a daily schedule in your life? Tips? Hand written schedule or software?

db48x 8 years ago |

All that really matters is that you get things accomplished.

A rigid schedule of tasks to accomplish might be one way to do that, but I've found it's better for me to just have a simple list of things to do (features to implement, bugs to squash, etc) and a general plan for the day (work a few hours, wander into town for lunch, work some more). The exact start and stop times don't matter, the exact order I finish the tasks doesn't matter. All that matters are the medium term goals for finishing projext X by next week and project Y by the month after that.