On being out of synch
Wow, I’ve been blogging a lot today. It’s the second day since I started my free-ranging sleep schedule, and I feel so much better. It would be amazing if my ADHD was actually just symptoms of sleep deprivation from severe delayed sleep phase syndrome. (And suck that I’ve been wasting time with ADHD meds.)
But being out of synch isn’t going to be easy. First of all, I have to be able to predict my sleep schedule in advance so I can make appointments at times when I won’t be sleeping. Second, I have to deal with the lack of daylight during my productive hours. I think for the latter, a couple things are in order. First, I need a new watch, that I’ll set to 8 AM every time I get out of bed. That way I can see what time it should feel like relative to my sleep schedule, and I can try to modulate my level of activity (and my focus) accordingly. Otherwise, if I wake up at 2 PM, I’d be prone to spend a few hours working and then goof off until 11 PM and then do random stuff until I go to bed at 4 or 5 AM. And that’s not a way to get anything done.
Second, I need to get more organized. I need to have a plan about what I need to get done, and follow the plan. Because if I just did what I felt like doing, I would leave a lot of important things undone, since a lot of the meager productivity I have nowadays is tied to habits that are based on my daily routine, which is going to become much more sporadic. So I got a book today (at 3 PM subjective time, 7 PM real time) called “Getting Things Done”, by David Allen. You might have heard of it. We’ll see if it helps.
