What will be my daily routine?

Before I put my daily schedule on a plate, I want to note some basics first.

This project will start Monday, February 27th and the first check up will be on March 27th, so one month from then. At that point I will have to reevaluate all the activities I had during the time passed and see if I am satisfied with the results. At the beginning the blog will be all filled up with info about what I spent my time on during the day, my thoughts and perceptions of different experiences, but after a while I will hopefully be able to show some visual results of my work.

The schedule will be applied on workdays only and the weekend will be given to my off-schedule activities like socializing, spending time in nature with my dog, resting, taking care of my home and whatever else I feel like doing... :)

Of course, there will also be things that will interrupt my daily schedule like seeing a movie or going to a concert or a theater, or taking care of some bureaucratic or health stuff that will probably take me more time than I can extract for it - so those kind of exceptions are allowed. In those cases I will catch up with what I've missed during the weekend and it will all be documented here.

My first goal is to put myself into a routine of everyday work so I will focus on fulfilling my daily plan as much as possible.

Ok, so here it is - THE DAILY SCHEDULE for the first month:

7h - 7:45h - get up, take Munja for a walk, breakfast

8h - 15h - job time

15:30h - 16:30h - take Munja for a walk and lunch

16:30h - 17:30h - meditation/tai-chi

18h - 19h - 3D Studio Max course (monday, tuesday and thursday)

                - study about photography (wednesday and friday)

19h - 20h - take Munja for a walk and dinner

20h - 22h - blog, email and social networking

22h - 23h - getting ready for bed and reading

23h .......................z z z Z Z  Z     Z          Z

Now, during my day job I can always find time to practice 3D Max and since my work computer is the only one I can practice it on, that is what I am going to do. Also, I will make references about the project I am taking care of at work and all the things that are in some way connected to it - like studies on the subject in a form of a theoretical research or my own design analysis.

Another thing, important - I am still waiting for my 3D Max course to start, but I don't want to make that circumstance interfere with the beginning of this project, so until the beginning of the course, I will spend time intended for it on my photography studies. My camera is always with me, so if I want to take special time for shooting - it will be on weekends.

One more thing. There are some things that I started doing before the idea of this project (some furniture redesign) and I need to finish it. Now I am waiting for my artisans to finish their part of work so there will probably be some schedule break ups for that cause. Anyway, the important thing is that I don't spend much time in vain and that at the end of the day I go to bed happy :)

'Til Monday then!

Wish me luck!!!

I.

What is this all about?

In the last couple of months of self examination and exploration of my true passions I came close to the answer of what I really love and want to do and what is it I want to achieve. Being an architect and working for years on projects I did not really enjoy and at the same time being limited in creative endeavors because of a lack of knowledge about certain software I have found too hard to master, made me (feel) incompetent when it comes to the experience in the creative field, resulting in a lack of motivation, boredom with my work, lost goals and eventually low self-esteem. The truth is - there is little I can put in my portfolio and the only one to blame is myself, for not being persistent enough and more hardworking. Beside that, I have resurrected my passion for photography, bought my first DSLR and started taking photos in the process of self education. Ok, it's a hobby, and there is talent as some competent people told me, but why not take it to another level by committing more time and energy to it? What is stopping me other than myself? So I came to the point of what I really want: to be free to create my own art and not less important - to be able to do it. The feeling of excitement about this revelation was kind of freeing and gave me so much joy and enthusiasm and all I had to do was - commit to my skills improvement by self education or taking a course, spend more time really doing it and most important: have a specific goal. One thing I already do have as a facilitating factor is that I am not obliged to spend 8 hours at my desk at work, but have the liberty of organizing my own time according to the tasks needing to be done. But being out of the focus for too long -as I was, makes the freedom to organize your time frustrating if you are not able, for whatever reasons, to organize it effectively and follow the routine of daily activities - as it is my case. In the end, I find myself unhappy, not satisfied with the day passed, feeling guilty for being lazy or distracted by "circumstances" and my self-esteem is getting lower and lower. Now, since I have realized that the only reason why I fail in all my attempts to achieve my goals is not sticking to a routine and avoiding the discipline of everyday work, I've decided to make a change by starting with this project. I am going to make a schedule of my daily activities and try to stick to it as much as possible for a month to begin with, which will hopefully take me, step by step, to the point where I can finally see the results of my work that will satisfy me. It will be composed of different tasks, most of them focused on practical work and education in fields of architectural design and photography. One more thing that I want to do in parallel is to continue walking on a mind-expanding and soul-searching path, as that adventure is the best one I ever took part in. So, What is this all about? It's about testing my ability to take my life and responsibility for it into my own hands and see if I am able to control it - in order to make a change I so wish for. I believe I can and you will be the judge. I know it will be hard to get out of my comfort zone and quitting is always an option, but in that case I will consider myself a big time failure.