I do all of those things! Not all in one day of course, I spread it out over an entire week.
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I kinda im!
Wake up @ 8am, start work at 8.15am, work till 17.
Then 1h to 4h of sports (either gym, rope climbing or bouldering), 5 times a week
At that point is 18.30/20, got a solid few hours for hobbies/friends/chill.
As you might have notice I don't cook, and commutes are short when climbing ca. 40 mins biking away, work is at home or if I go to the office I go in my lunch hour (20mins commute), gym is 3mins away and bouldering is 10mins biking
Also, no kids.
I sleep every day at ca. 11.30. Get solid 8h in bed, but only around 7h of sleep sadly. Trying to make it 8!
It absolutely is possible, but you have to be completely honest with yourself and have some discipline. If sitting on the couch and doing nothing is important too you, then you literally have to plan time to sit on the couch and do nothing.
Everything you can possibly do, including doing nothing, because doing nothing is doing something, has to be categorized into important/not important and urgent/not urgent.
Any thing not important and not urgent should be completely eliminated from your life:
Most of us say we don't have time anymore because we miss the aimless free time of our youth. But that time is gone...
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Before children and during the pandemic I did, but with one simple change, home office instead of 3 hours commuting in heavy traffic.
Same.
I have no kids. My employer just told us we had to be in the office 5 days a week now and I don't have time to do anything anymore. I lost a big chunk of my spare time and freedom and I just feel like burning the office down now.
Employer here. Look for an alternative offer to leverage. Tell both parties that home office guarantees in writing will have a lot of weight in your final decision.
Yeah that's what I've been trying to do. But nobody's hiring right now. Or they don't want to pay a decent salary.
Besides, they're already forcing us to wear a suit and tie. To be in a cubicle office as IT consultants. To communicate with each other via MS Teams...
But how else will your superior feel powerful?
This sounds like hell. I'm sorry to hear this.
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Employee here. If you need an alternative offer to get reasonable considerations from your employer, just take the alternative offer. The employer clearly doesn't respect you and your current leverage is just a short term tool until they start taking advantage of you again.
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Did they take your stapler?
If you bike to work, you feed two birds with one scone.
angry sentiment. the people having nothing better to do than shouting "biking! is the best thing in the world. everybody should do it" for one misses that not everybody wants to do it (and being pressured to do sth causes an understandable and hefty backlash) and that more important, it's ableist because it assumes everybody is physically healthy enough to even bike in any weather.
for example, my throat reliably hurts every time i bike in temperatures of below 5°C. that's not because i'm really disabled, but because cold, icy wind + sensitive throat = sore throat. that sucks.
and that's besides the point that my coworkers wouldn't really appreciate to smell my sweat for 6 hours (we have no shower in office). and i also don't want to be in sweat-sticky clothes all day long.
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It snowed 10 inches here today. Not really an option everywhere
Then you're getting that upper body & core shovel workout.
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It's only really feasible if your fitness activities are also your hobbies and you have friends who share said hobbies. For example, rock climbing, running.
Simple solution.
You have to make work side project too and gym what you for for fun / hobby.
Too bad if the only thing you hate more than exercise is the job.
I combined work and gym and I'm now doing back breaking labour. 10/10 would recommend
This guy understands capitalism.
I think you need to reassess your understanding of the definition of the word "simple".
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For a serious answer, it requires a level of strict discipline and adherence to schedule that makes any reward you get from it feel hollow
5:30 - get up, get dressed, make the bed
5:45 - go for a walk with my wife and our cat
6:15 - shower, coffee, lemmy, household chores
7:30 - ride bicycle to work
8:30 - work starts
5pm - ride back home
6pm - cook and eat dinner
7pm - household chores
8pm - 1h free time
9pm - go to bed
So I manage to not fall behind on the household, shopping, sleep, me-time or exercise during the week.
I can carve out up to 4 hours for some special evening event once in a while.
Weekends are filled with side projects, visiting family and activities with friends.
Riding a bicycle to work was the game changer for me. It adds 2h of daily exercise and time to reflect during my commute.
I'd say there's some differences between biking and gym in terms of whole body strength and flexibility, but it's good exercise. Definitely more productive than driving.
I think one point that can still be made is that this schedule means your average day (averaging over weekends) contains 7 hours of work/commute and only 3.5 hours of hobbies/activities.
A move to a 30 hour work week would mean that you would only spend 5.5-6 hours a day working and get 5 hours an average day for hobbies/activities.
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I really don't think that's possible if you're neurodivergent and unmedicated. There are too many bees buzzing in our heads to be that productive.
Not all types of neurodivergence fit that description or require medication.
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I'm not big on side projects, but I've made fitness into my fun, so those blocks get partially combined.
I actually think that's kind of key when it comes to fitness - you need to find an activity you actually find enjoyable, otherwise you're always going to be struggling to keep it up. I used to force myself to go running many years ago even though I hated it, and that predictably didn't go very well. Then I re-discovered biking, which takes very little mental effort for me to want to actively go out and do, since I like doing it so much. I've since started to find running actually fun, but it was a bit pointless there for a while
The trick is not trying to force them into every single day. You do some stuff on your free time and some during the weekend
Personally, I manage to do so only because I genuinely can't afford the life and fun.
15 minute a day fitness program. Designed to be done with no equipment except a stopwatch.
https://leisureguy.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/rcaf_xbx_5bx_exercise_plans_text.pdf
Actual exercises are in the back of the book.
For me, the math here ain't mathing. Work + commute + lunch = only 9 hours? Nah bro. I don't live at work. Stuffing your face in 15min is bad enough.
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