DAILY MAP
If only a day was 36 hours...
But it's not.
Being a grad student is a big deal. Taking 4 classes in one semester is even greater. Tired of doing nothing except doing my best to waste my time, googling, facebooking, and messing my eyes in front of a screen, which turned to be my best friend now, I made up my mind to find a solution. A permanent one.
PROBLEM 1: THERE IS NO TIME.
SOLUTION 1: SLEEPING NO MORE THAN 5 HOURS.
RESULT: FAILURE.
- Decrease in IQ and performance.
PROBLEM 2: NOW, THERE IS EVEN LESS TIME! WHY? BECAUSE I WASTED MY TIME BY TRYING THE FIRST SOLUTION.
SOLUTION 2: MAKE A DAILY MAP IN ORDER TO SEE:
- How and when and where and with whom do you lose time?
- What are the key stops in your daily life?
- What kind of strategies can you develop to save more time?
Just like I had done in last spring semester in Extreme Freestyle Hacking, I recalled my old friend, comrade; drawing.
I realized that, whenever i start a new day, I always lose time with preparing Turkish tea and talking to people, which I called to be the UNITED STATES OF PERSONA area. It's one of the most dangeorus areas. Why? Because it eventually leads me to consuming more coffee & tea, more chating and/or ending up in a bar or a cafe.D-A-N-G-E-R.
OBESELAND and DEPRESSION VILLAGE are the places where you can find candies, chocolates, snacks, and these kinds of evil things. With no doubt, they're my favorites.
D-A-N-G-E-R. Aside from the fact that it's simply bad for my daily diets which always start and generally end on monday- if not on tuesday (see Gokce's Traditional Hourly Monday Diets), ,going to the kitchen all the time and eating and eating, then sleeping equal to waste of time. What i've found out is that Obeseland has connections to EVERYWHERE when the poor areas of PCL and school work, NERD TOWN has none! Then I realized that after I wake up, I never directly work or go to library. Instead, I waste my time. Second diagnosis.
CREAMOUNTAINS is the place, where I play guitar, compose music pieces, write, draw, paint...It's the hardest to be reached on the map. To get there, one has to pass the most dangerous zonE. It's full of mental storms, ideological mountains and storms again, which were supposed to be scary:). There's no way. No way to get there. But once you get there, it's hard to leave as well! As you can see above, it's also the neighbor of the TTR (Turkish Tea Republic). Makes sense.
Besides, I realized that I always waste time within the vicious circles of either tea-cigarette-chat or facebook-youtube-facebook. That's why I called that area as JUNK TIME, which also has a link to FREETIME. In terms of using PC, which unfortunately seems to be the center of my life so far, I divided it into 2 segments:
FREE TIME PC: Production & Creativity: Reading articles of interests, magazines, surfing through internet for GOOD. Good for brain, food for thought.
JUNK TIME PC: Pee & Crap: Facebooking, googling, bullshitting for NOTHING. NOTHING for NOTHING.
And finally PORTFOLIO LAND. It consists of tv spots, print ads, and ideas that I'm supposed to have as an advertising student. To get there is not that easy as well.
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RESULTS
- Make a direct way to STUDY right after you wake up.
- Don't ever enter the area of UNITED STATES OF PERSONA, until you get rid of at least 1 task out of 5 a day.
- The partnership of TEA & CIGARETTE does not seem to be that profitable. Well, don't quit smoking, at least REDUCE!
- Try to create some other ways to get to "creativity"! PLEASE.
I'll seriously take these points into consideration to fix my life.
If only a day was 36 hours...