Through this vacation, I am finding that having too much unstructured time is not as easy as I thought it would be. I continue to be surprised and perplexed because I am not being as productive as I was when I had less free time. It is like I am paralyzed by too much free time.
If I have weeks upon weeks of unstructured time, time seems to just disappear. I spend it doing meaningless things. But I also know that if I have an overly structured, busy schedule with no free time, then I get so intimidated by the lack of time and I end up not getting anything done, either.
So my solution is to structure unstructured time. In other words, create a framework that allows for specific time to do anything I want, while still maintaining some sort of routine.
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