How-To: Improperly Set Up a Work Routine

Everyone needs to work– at least, well, sorta. But anyway, if you want a good life you need to work. I think. Whatever. But in order to get this work done, you need a good way to get the work done, and that means things like having a workspace and a schedule. And while it’s easy to identify what makes a workspace, it’s much harder to identify what makes a schedule. Not so much in the physical aspects, but in the psychological aspects that make you actually adhere to the schedule.

Now if you’ve read my last How-To, you’d know exactly how important sleeping is, so I’d recommend reading that before proceeding. Next, print out a bunch of pieces of paper and date them. Blank Excel documents or form templates will work well for this. Then begin to schedule out all of the things that need to be done for your work. Do this in one long stretch; it is absolutely imperative that you take no breaks during this process.

Once you have finished writing down everything you need to do for the next five years, go to the store and buy the cheapest binder, and some cookies (because you earned them). Then stuff all of your planning into that binder and place it in the done pile of your desk. Place everything you complete on top of it and forget about it for several months.

Now discover it and remember that you have no discipline and scheduling isn’t your thing. Neither is sleeping.

Table Topics Family 24 #48-48

QUESTIONS

1. What’s the best and worst thing about your position in the family birth order?

2. In what ways are you generous?

ANSWERS By: Austin Smith

1. The best is that I’m the youngest and get all the stuff no one wants anymore in addition to the stuff I already get. The disadvantage to that is I get overshadowed a bit.

2. I would like to thing of myself as a generous person, but maybe I just don’t like to say “hey look at me I’m so great” but I can’t really figure out in which “way” I’m generous.

Speak Your Mind 84 #416-420

QUESTIONS

1. Do you think it would be fun to have a twin brother or sister?

2. Do you like mustaches?

3. Who is your dentist?

4. Would you rather have a pet parrot or a pet snake?

5. How do you think kids who have trouble in school feel about school?

ANSWERS By: Austin Smith

1. Not really, I like being the lowest, I get the most freedom and all the hand-me-downs.

2. Yes and no, they’re alright, if mine would grow I’d like them more.

3. The only dentist in town.

4. A parrot for sure, it could ride on my shoulder and talk and stuff. 

5. I bet they hate it. 

Speak Your Mind 54 #266-270

QUESTIONS

1. What chores do you have to do at your home?

2. Do you sleep in a double bed?

3. Is your driveway at home gravel, black top, or concrete?

4. Do you think people who do not live in America are as happy as Americans?

5. What color do you think an ambulance should be?

ANSWERS By: Austin Smith

1. Take out the trash, clean the dishes, and everything that my parents can’t do at the moment.

2. No, I sleep in a single.

3. We don’t have a driveway.

4. Depends on the country, area within that country, etc. I’m not sure people that live in America are very happy either.

5. Bright pink.

Speak Your Mind 28 #136-140

QUESTIONS
1. Do you like to eat lobster?

2. Does your family own a truck?

3. Where does your father work?

4. How old were you when you quit believing in Santa Claus?

5. How do you think students feel when they get bad grades on tests?

ANSWERS By: Austin Smith

1. No, lobster is the shellfish I least care for, and I’m not the biggest fan of shellfish.

2. Up until a few months ago we did, but it is no longer.

3. At a motel, which he owns.

4. I never believed in Santa.

5. Bad if they care about their jobs, indifferent if they are, and good if they are malicious. It really depends on the teacher.