• 6:30 — Alarm
• 7:00 — Alarm
• 7:30 — Alarm -_-
• 7:30 — 8:30 AM - Shower/Personal Work/Coffee
• 8:30 — Bike to work
• 9:00 - 9:30 — Pretend to be at the gym but actually reading DN
• 9:30 - Noonish — Smaller tasks and various daily stand-ups
• Noonish - 5:30 — Project work
• 5:30 — Bike home from work
• 5:30 - 11:30 — Spending time with wife, dinner, personal work
• Midnight-ish — Sweet, sweet sleep.

Cameron, I was at Squares and was delighted to see your schedule (being so family-oriented) during your talk. Being a new mom and younger professional, it's been on my mind lately how other professionals with families juggle it all. Really enjoyed your talk at Squares.

Here's my schedule:

• 6-6:30 — Wake up and get myself ready
• 7:15 — Baby wakes up, nurses; get him dressed
• 7:45 — Leave for work, eat breakfast in car, drop kiddo off at daycare
• 8:30 — Arrive at work/check email
• 9 — Team stand-up
• 9:15 — Pump
• 9:35 — Work
• 11-11:30 — Lunch
• 11:30 — Work
• 12:30 — Pump
• 12:50 — Work
• 3:30 — Pump
• 3:50-5 — Work
• 5:30 — Arrive home/nurse baby
• 6-7 — Dinner and clean-up
• 7-8:15 Family time
• 8:15 —Nurse baby to sleep, personal time
• 10-10:30 — Husband and I go to sleep
• 12a — Baby nurses
• 3:30a — Baby nurses

Repeat!

Shout-out to parents who have a 24-hour day :)

Suggestion: Use Markdown (* + space) to style your schedule in a list. Too late for mine, DN doesn't allow editing.

Here's mine again:

• 5:10am Alarm
• 5:40 Leave home; drive oldest child to early-morning study
• 6:00 Personal study (my own)
• 6:45 Drop off son at school; return home
• 7:15 Shower, breakfast, help other children prepare for school
• 8:30 Head to office; run errands; social media & inbox
• 10:00 Begin workday (primarily Authentic Jobs)
• 12:00 Lunch
• 12:45pm-ish Continue workday; squeeze in a workout on break
• 4:30 Head home
• 5:00 Dinner
• 5:30 Leave for sons' soccer practice; coach one of the teams
• 7:30 Return home
• 7:30–10:30ish Family activities, homework, church service, etc.
• 11:00pm-ish Retire to bed

• 6:00/6:30am - Wake up (or be woken up by my son)
• 6:30am - Read, shower, get ready
• 7:15am - Head to work (listen to podcasts or music, read on the way, or do some work on the train)
• 8:45am - Get coffee
• 9:00am - Work
• 12:30–1:00pm - Lunch
• 5:00pm - Head home
• 6:30pm - Dinner
• 7:00pm–8:30pm - Family time/church
• 8:30pm - Put kids to bed
• 9:00pm - Time with the wife/extracurricular or personal stuff
• 10:00/11:00pm - Sleep

One thing my wife and I have done since we’ve gotten married that has really helped us is having a dedicated, no-excuse date night once a week—we get a baby sitter and go out for at least 1.5 hrs. If we have baby-sitter issues or just can't leave the kids alone (i.e. having a newborn), we morph it into a family date night.

• 8:30ish - Wake up ah-natur-al, lay in bed lazily
• 9:00 - Breakfast, shower, lounge around lazily
• 9:50 - Walk to work
• 10:00 - Start work
• ??? Lunch in here somewhere
• 6:00 - End work / walk home
• 6:10 - 11:00 - Hangout with my wife (this time slot is sometimes interrupted by necessities, such as going out to buy groceries)
• 11:30ish - Bedtime

Sometimes I get motivated to exercise, have personal study, etc., but those never seem to have any permanence (I struggle with laziness).

My wife and I are will be having our first baby in a few weeks, so I'm assuming (based on looking at other schedules here) that my current schedule is going to change drastically.

I'm a big fan of Offscreen Magazine, and especially it's 'A Day in the Life Of' section (it's essentially the same idea as this daily schedule topic)

Long story short, I recently updated my website, (maxwelllind.com), and included a section directly inspired, borrowed from them. I try to write every now and then, and can honestly say I enjoyed putting this together...I'd encourage you all to do the same.

I answered this 2 years ago.

• 6:30am - Alarm plays music from Skyrim soundtrack by Jeremy Soule (much better than “BEEP BEEP BEEP”)
• 7:00am - In-person client meetings today? Shower. No meetings? Less shower.
• 7:30am - Feed dog, chase dog with 15-month-old daughter, help wife feed daughter her breakfast, dog gets food that drops on the floor.
• 8:00am - Kiss wife goodbye, make “long” work commute to at-home office, put on noise-cancelling headphones to block out sounds of daughter still chasing dog.
• 8:01am - Fire up computer, read emails, check news, general business upkeep (new leads, invoices, mail, etc.), review daily schedule in TeuxDeux, and often catch up with my parents and/or brothers with a phone call around this time as well.
• 8:30am - 9:00am - Client work, lots of coding, some design.
• 11:45am - Lunch, client calls, errands. Time and weather permitting, walk the neighborhood with wife and daughter or go on a local hike.
• 1:00pm - Back to work. This is when my productivity is greatest.
• 3:00pm - Short break to stretch legs again, then more work.
• 5:00pm - Dinner and family time. Depending on the season, there’s usually snow blowing or lawn mowing at least once a week.
• 7:00pm - Workout. Admittedly, this is the activity that gets cut out when my schedule fluctuates, which is often the case when your’e self-employed.
• 7:30pm - This time slot varies every day but most often it’s used to pursue side projects, personal writing, and hanging out with my wife. During the Milky Way season in our area (like right now), I might also take this time to prep camera gear for a night shoot.
• 11:00pm - Covertly check on daughter sleeping in her crib with my iPhone’s light. Go to bed.

No two days are exactly alike, which I enjoy, but to make sure each day was well-rounded and felt accomplished, I came up with the Rule of One:

• Get at least one thing accomplished. Even if I only finish one task that day, doing something is better than nothing.
• Learn one new thing. I’ve never, ever been able to go through my news feeds and not find at least one useful article or tutorial to learn from.
• Do one nice thing for someone else. It can be as simple as shoveling my neighbor’s steps or holding the door for someone at the store.

It doesn't always happen like this, but ideally this is my schedule:

• 5:30am Alarm and head to the gym
• 7:30am Get ready for work shower and breakfast
• 9:00am Work
• 11:30am Lunch
• 5:30pm Head home
• 6:30pm Family time and dinner
• 8:30pm put kid to bed
• 9:30pm watch a show with wife or work (freelancing)

I always love these threads!

heres mine:

• 8:00am Alarm
• 8:15 stop snoozing, rush out of the house and head to the gym on a boris bike I like to do early morning workouts, generally free weights and HIT training.
• 9:30 cycle back from the gym and shower. I'm working on a new venture at the moment [Matterhorn.io](www.matterhorn.io) a project management tool designed for teams. I catch up with the rest of the team on Slack and plan out our day on Mattehorn (of course).
• 1pm - Leave the house and head to a local coffee shop. I'm in Shoreditch, east london so there are literally 1000's within a mile.
• 3pm - grab a bite to eat
• 6pm - Head home, usually grabbing something for dinner on the way.
• 7-8:30 - Cook and eat dinner. This is my down time, I love the process of preparing and cooking dinner its probably the only point in the day I'm not 'connected' to the world.
• 9 - 12 - Research / Play on the internet.. a little more ;)
• 1:30 - sleep time

I’m often wary when people share their personal schedules, because oftentimes I think people make them up in order to seem more put together/impressive than they really are. But since Cameron’s was so family-centric (like mine is) I'll give it a go ;)

• 6-7am – Either my 8yo daughter comes into the bedroom or my twin 2yo boys wake up and I go get them from their bedroom
• 7-8:10am – Change diapers, get all the kids fed, get daughter ready for school. If I'm going into the office for my dayjob I get myself washed & dressed, if I'm working from home I just get dressed ;)
• 8:20am – Bus stop and then either I drive into work in Uptown Charlotte or I go back home
• 9-9:30am – Email, Twitter, Slack. Loosely prep for the day.
• 12 – Lunch with co-workers if I'm at work, with wife and boys if I'm at home
• 1 – Back to work
• 5 – If I'm at office I head home, If I'm at home I go get my daughter from the bus stop
• 6-7 – Family dinner
• 7-9 – Get boys ready for bed, homework with daughter, daughter gets her 30 mins of laptop time (either coding or, more often than I'd like, Minecraft ;), then reads until 8:30-9 and I sing her Ben Folds’ "The Luckiest" and put her to bed
• 9-12ish – Do household chores, watch a show or two with my wife, Twitter, work on http://inlinehq.com

• 10 — Wake up
• 10 — Coffee > Start work > Check news > Slack scrum
• 11 — Workout > Shower > Metro
• 12 — Head into the office
• 1 — Eat lunch
• 2 — Core coding time, according to github
• 5 — Drink a beer > Wind down > Prep for tomorrow
• 6 — Leave work and do whatever
• 2 — Sleep

• 7:30 — Alarm / shower / breakfast
• 8:00 — Head to train station
• 9:00 — Coffee at work
• 9:00 - 12:30 — Work
• 12:30 — Lunch
• 13:00 — Play some Fifa
• 13:15 - 18:00 — Work
• 18:30 — Take train back to home
• 19:15 — Make dinner
• 20:00 — Play Fifa
• 22:30 — Sleep

• 7:30 or 8AM: Wake up. Let the dogs out. Shower (every other day). Brush hair & teeth. Pack lunch. Get dog food ready. Let the dogs back in.
• 8:30AM: Latest I can leave for work and arrive on time. Commute is 20 minutes by car + 10 minutes walking. Going to experiment with biking one day this week.
• 9:00AM to Noon: Check email, Basecamp, Forecast. Work on things.
• Noon to 1PM: Lunch break.
• 1PM to 6PM: Progressively get less productive as the day wears on.
• 6PM: Walk & drive home.
• 6:30PM to 10PM: Let the dogs out. Make & eat a meal. Flex time for house chores, errands, exercise, and hobbies.
• 10PM-Midnight: Visit the boyfriend (or he visits me). Eat another small meal or snacks. Get ready for bed. Rinse & repeat.

It's not too different on the days when I work from home. I just wake up later and start my flex time earlier, due to no commute.

• 7:00am-ish - 8:30am: Alarm, wake up, shower, making tea
• 8:30am - noon: Work, check in with team, make calls, conduct interviews, meetings
• noon - 1pm-ish: Lunch at the nearby Jamaican spot, fresh air and walkin' around
• 1pm-ish - 3:00pm-ish: Nap #1
• 3:00pm-ish - 8:00pm: More work, emails, calls
• 8:00pm - 11:00pm: Personal time (TV, video games, etc.); depending on the night, I may just keep on working.
• 11:00pm - 2:30am-ish: Nap #2
• 2:30am-ish - 4:00am-ish: Email, other writing
• 4:00am-ish - 7:00am-ish: Nap #3

This changes a lot if I'm in project mode, but generally speaking, this is a regular day without interruptions.

There should be some sort of schedule accountability network so we can hold each other to our ideal workdays. Mine is often broken before 8:00am, but here's what I've been aiming for:

• 5:30am Wake up; cold shower (seriously, try it for a couple of days. It'll change your life)
• 6:00 Read the Bible; pray; journal
• 7:00 Breakfast
• 7:30 Write
• 8:00 Work on side projects
• 9:00 Work for Fusion (the day job)
• 12:30 Lunch
• 1:30 Back to work
• 5:00 Gym
• 6:30 Dinner
• 7:00 Work on side projects, or spend time with friends
• 10:00 Read
• 11:00 Try to get to sleep, but probably read some more

I've been slowly trying to turn myself into a morning person. My natural inclination is to work late into the night, so this schedule is often broken by Tuesday. Any suggestions you have for improving my consistency would be welcome; it seems like my willpower is at its lowest early in the morning, when I need to avoid the "snooze" button.

• 5:45am - Alarm
• 6:00am - Take my dog out for a walk
• 6:30am - Shower and get ready for work
• 7:00am - Leave for work
• 8:00am (ish) - Pick up breakfast at cafeteria at office and start working
• 12:00 - Heat up lunch and continue working
• 4:00pm - Leave work
• 5:30pm - Arrive home, walk dog, start prepping dinner, errands, exercise, reddit, etc
• 8:45pm - Wife gets home from school, eat dinner together, watch some TV and catch up with each other
• 10:30pm - sleep

I really wish that my commute wasn't such a bear.

Hi guys! Here is my (mostly) daily schedule:

• 7:30am Alarm #1 + snoozes
• 8:00am Wake-up, brush teeth, get dressed, gather belongings, etc.
• 8:35am Leave apartment and get on the subway
• 9:00am Arrive at work, eat breakfast, read emails, browse DN, etc.
• 9:30am Start working (I work for an events company in Manhattan)
• 1pm Lunch
• 5:30pm Leave work
• 6:00pm Get back home, go for a jog (I'm a marathoner)
• 7:30pm Shower, prepare dinner
• 8:00pm Eat, usually with my boyfriend unless he's working
• 8:30pm Watch a show or movie, or play a boardgame (we love Catan!) with my boyfriend. If he is working I will do some cleaning or work on some freelance/personal projects
• 12am Sleep

I don't have a family to take care of so my schedule is pretty relaxed. It's great to hear how everyone is able to balance their work and personal lives!

So much fun to see everyone's schedule and how different they are. Thanks for sharing. :)

I decided to write about my schedule in a bit more detail on my blog: http://www.createmake.com/post/115302039030/what-is-your-daily-schedule

9 - Wakeup and get 5-month old son to pass off to gammy (my mom haha) 10:30 - Go to my office 12 - Lunch 1 - Work 3:45 - Head home to watch my son 5:15 - Hand son off to my wife

Wow, how do you guys go to bed so early? I'm not even IN bed until 1am and then I read for at least 30 minutes.

I guess I'm just used to surviving on 5-7 hours of sleep, probably not good for me.

• 23:00 - 04-30 Wake up sporadically and keep notes or ideas (yeah)
• 04:30 Wake up & have some fun with the son (after feeding him) until
• 06:00 Sending first bunch of e-mails
• 06:30 Fun with the kid, breakfast until
• 09:00 Off to work (usually driving there)
• 13:00 Launch
• 15:00 - 17:30 Period usually reserved for meetings and conferences
• 18:30 Hitting the gym for a couple minutes
• 19:00 Back home
• 19:10 - 21:00 Fun with the kid
• 21:00 Show, food, some rest
• 22:00 Movie or Series
• 23:00 Sleep

here's my schedule for my typical day. :)

• 6:30 - first alarm
• 7:00 - second alarm and actually getting up time
• 7:30 - prepare breakfast (I like to eat breakfast at home most of the time, save a great deal of money)
• 8:00 - get changed, get ready
• 8:15 - brew my daily coffee
• 8:30 - out of the house, head to work
• 8:50 - at work, talk to coworkers or just reading some stuff online
• 9:00 - work starts. work work work
• 12:00 - lunch time
• 12:30 - read a little before work again
• 1:00 until 5:00 - work
• 5:00 - 5:30 - work ends at 5 but I'd like to stay a little bit to read stuff on the Internet also avoid the traffic around 4:30-5:00
• 6:00 - get home, prep dinner, clean up
• 8:00 - cycling
• 9:30 - get home, rest a little, take a shower
• 10:00 - take my dog for a walk
• 10:30 - night reading
• 11:00 - watch movies or TV shows
• midnight or 1ish - bed time

This is an interesting topic, especially because since I went remote I'm trying to come up with a schedule/routine that gets me a sane and healthy balance between predictability and a little bit of randomness to spice things up.

With that, I've found that while being remote, it's impossible for me to have ONE schedule... I find myself with at least three: One will include an early morning workout, the other will include a run at the end of the day, and the other will involve going to a co-working space so I can keep the social skills going!

So typically:

• 6h00: Wake up and run to the climbing centre
• 7h00: Climb for a bit more than an hour, take the tube home
• 9h00: Make a big breakfast (breakfast depends on which kind of day I'm having/will have... so there's no fixed breakfast routine)
• 9h30: Start working from home
• 12h30: Make lunch
• 13h30: Go out and work in a coffeeshop
• 16h30: Go back home and have a snack
• 18h00: Finish work; work on personal projects or just read articles/books
• 19h30: Have dinner
• 20h30: Work some more for personal projects, learn with tutorials, watch a TV show
• 23h: Bedtime.

I find it very hard to automate my routine especially when I can either leave the house at 8am or at 13pm... even breakfast depends on what kind of day I'll be having.

One thing I noticed from being a remote worker though: staying home for a full day is NOT an option. I feel terrible, both physically and mentally if I don't leave the house for a big walk somewhere during the day.

Setting up a schedule was probably the best thing I've done for my freelancing self. My unorganized mess of tasks often left me paralyzed and apathetic but once I made dedicated room for all of my desired accomplishments I got much more effective and calm.

• 6 – Wake up, make breakfast, check email, decide 3 MIT:s.
• 7 – Commute to work, think of nothing
• 8 – Have one hour developer related learning
• 9 – Work on developer related MIT:s
• 11 – Check email and do bundled up small tasks
• 12 – Lunch + walk
• 1.30 – Draw a story for leaveastory.com
• 3 – Work on drawing related MIT:s
• 6 – Spend time with friends/work out/have dinner
• 10 – Sleep

The hardest part is the lunch walk. At least on days like yesterday when it rained sideways.

• 6.20 – Alarm
• 6.23 – Alarm
• 6.26 – Alarm
• 6.29 – Alarm (yes, three minutes apart)
• 6.40 – Youngest waltzes in and asks for breakfast
• 6.50 – Shower, clothes, hair, get the kids doing what they should
• 8.00 – Bus to work
• 9.00 – Open MacBook, start work
• 9.15 – Coffee
• ~11.00 – Coffee
• 1.00 – Lunch, play FIFA
• 2.00 – Back to work
• 2.15 – Coffee
• ~3.30 – Coffee
• 5.30 – Close laptop, go home
• 5.45 – Bus home
• 6.45 – Wrangle up the youngest, put him in bed
• 7.30 – Read with daughter, put her in bed
• 7.45 – Dinner! Football if there's football on TV, if not watch something else with the girlfriend
• 9.30 – Personal work
• ~11.00–1.00 – Fall asleep/go to bed

• 07:30, alarm + snooze

• 07:50, wake up, brush teeth, push ups, suit up not really wearing a suit

• 08:15, bus commute

• 09:00–09:30, stroll into work my route is so unreliable

• 09:30–10:00, check daily news, emails, calendar, etc.

• 10:00–13:00, design, meetings, other work

• 13:00–14:00, lunch at café or soylent

• 14:00–18:00, design, meetings, other work

• 18:00, shutdown and walk to bus or get swole at the gym, then commute home

• 20:00, cook or order takeout, eat

• 21:00, recreation, hobbies, reading, Street Fighter, side projects, etc.

• 02:00, bed time I need to sleep earlier

Edit: Formatting

• 8:00 -- alarm
• 8:10 -- snoozed alarm 1
• 8:15 -- snoozed alarm 2 (change to 5 minute intervals)
• 8:20 -- snoozed alarm 3 (change back to 10 minute intervals)
• 8:30 -- at this point my alarm clock stops letting me hit snooze
• 8:32 -- get an overview of night time emails with groggy eyes
• 8:34 -- flip on HuffPost Live
• 8:35 - 9:10 -- shower, get dressed, fight hair monster with pomade
• 9:10 - 9:50 -- make coffee and watch last night's Jimmy Fallon
• 10:00 -- roll into the office (I live very close to the office)
• 10:30 - 6:00 -- development/design work at EyeVerify
• 6:10 - 7:30 -- side projects/personal work/Coursera classes
• 7:30 -- make dinner, then make tea, do whatever I feel
• 10 -- mix a cocktail if I'm feeling saucy, watch an hour long show
• 11 -- prepare for sleep, wind down by reading
• 12 - 1 -- toss and/or turn a bit until I fall asleep

• 7:00am breakfast
• 8:00am train to work
• 9:00am agency standup
• 9:30am team standup
• 9:45am project standup
• 10:00am coffee
• 10-12am questions, signoff
• 12:00 lunch and solitude
• 1-4pm meetings
• 4-5pm actual work
• 6:00pm walk dog
• 7:00pm cook dinner
• 8:00pm read / video games / movie
• 10:00pm bed
• 1:00am finally fall asleep
• 3:00am wake from stress dream
• 4:00am fall asleep again
• 5:00am alarm goes off
• 5:30am tell myself i need to go for a jog
• 6:00am decide i actually just need more sleep
• 6:25am finally fall asleep again
• 6:30am alarm goes off
• 7:00am breakfast

As a high school student... this is my typical day:

• 6:00 - 6:30 — Alarm
• 6:40 — Wake up, get dressed, shove breakfast down throat
• 6:50 — Get on bus, cram on homework and/or tests
• 7:10 — Arrive at school
• 7:10 - 2:35 — School (Typical 8 periods/day schedule)
• 12:56 - 1:24 — School lunch
• 2:35 — Get on bus, sleep on bus
• 2:40 — Arrive back home

From there, my afternoon schedule forks into three different possibilities:

On a normal day, I can usually squeeze in 6-8 hours of freelance work and get school work done

• 2:40 - 3:00 — Check the internet
• 3:00 - 4:00 — Afternoon nap OR robotics OR club meeting OR gym OR sports
• 4:00 — Client/School work
• 6:45 — Eat dinner/family stuff
• 7:00 - 12:00 — Client/School work
• 12:00 - 12:25 — Shower and hygiene stuff
• 12:25 - 1:00 - Fall asleep doing school work

Sometimes I accidentally fall asleep for 9 hours in my afternoon nap, usually because I didn't set an alarm. Sometimes I do it intentionally because I have a meeting with a client across the world. It happens once a month and I hate when it happens. :/

• 2:40 - 3:00 — Check the internet
• 3:00 - ? — Afternoon nap that turned into a 9-hour sleep
• ? - 12:00 — Eat dinner and check the internet
• 12:00 - ??? — Cram school/client work
• ??? - ??? — Fall asleep again

If I feel like working in an office or have a meetup in Center City Philly that night:

• 2:40 - 3:10 — Check the internet
• 3:10 — Walk to train
• 3:20 — Ride the train and freelance on train
• 3:50 — Walk to office/coworking space
• 4:00 - 6:30 — Work/freelance from office/coworking space
• 6:30 - 9:20 — Meetup
• 9:20 — Walk to train
• 9:30 — Ride the train and freelance on train
• 10:10 — Arrive home
• 10:30 - 12:00 — Client/School work
• 12:00 - ? — Shower and hygiene stuff
• ??? - ??? - School work
• ??? - ??? - Maybe a Skype call
• ??? — Fall asleep

• 6:00AM Alarm (I have alarms on everything)
• 6:30AM Shower & Breakfast
• 7:00AM Out the door
• 7:15AM Bus to work
• 8:30AM Arrive at office
• 9:00AM First tasks arrive in inbox
• 10:00AM Stand Up
• 12:00PM Lunch
• 1:00PM Usually pick up tasks from backlog / high priority
• 5:00PM Leave office
• 5:10PM Bus home
• 6:30PM Arrive home
• 7:00PM Dinner / family
• 11:00PM Bed

I'm usually so exhausted by 11 that I fall pretty much straight asleep. I always feel like shit in the morning though ;P

• 8:00 — Alarm
• 8:15 — Brush teeth, alleviate bodily functions, etc.
• 8:30 — Meditate, Mobility / Stretching
• 9:00 — Get ready, Aeropress Coffee
• 9:30 — Drive to office
• 10:00 — Check news, social media, dribbble, DN, etc.
• 10:30 — Projects
• 1:00 — Lunch
• 2:00 — Coffee, Projects
• 6:00 — Head home, eat, usually do some more mobility / stretching if I feel tense
• 7:30 — Gym / Weight Training ~5x / Week
• 9:30 — Cook, eat, shower
• 12:00 — Brush teeth, alleviate bodily functions, etc., Reddit / read
• 12:45 — Zzzz

Repeat forever.

• 6:15, Alarm, stare at phone for an hour
• 7:15, Shower, get dressed, tame manes
• 7:45, walk to train, sit in train, walk to work
• 8:30-6:00, work, work, work.
• 6:45, get food at local store, or eat somewhere in Sydney's city center
• 7:15, arrive home, make food, or skip this time slot if I ate in the city
• 7:45, (eat while) watching some series/films/youtubes
• 8:15, browse some webs and get in touch with gaming friends
• 8:30, pwn noobs (32, and still speak like that when it comes to gaming :p)
• 11:00, sleep (or 1am if I it's Thursday, since I play basketball late)

8:00: Wake up, shower, breakfast

9:00: Traveling to university, doing work on the bus

10:30: University, projects

17:00: Bus back home, either doing work or watching Netflix

18:30: Dinner

19:30: Client work/side projects

01:00/03:00: Sleep, depending on work load

• 6:45am Wake up & shower
• 7:15am Eat breakfast and read a book
• 8am Walk to work
• 8:30am Arrive at work
• 8:30-10am Catch up on project news/design research/social media
• 11am Have a light snack
• 12:30pm Lunch
• 12:45pm Continue work
• 2pm Go for a walk/coffee break/writing
• 3pm Continue work
• 4pm Have a light snack
• 5:30pm End work, walk home
• 6pm Arrive home, work out/go for a run
• 7:30-8pm Have Dinner
• 9-10:30pm Read news/read a book/writing/social media
• 10:30pm Sleep

7:35AM - Wake up to the soothing sound of my SleepAlarm and read Yahoo! New Digest or train my brain with Elevate.

8:30AM - Grind one of the various coffees at my disposal and brew a V60 or Chemex worth of coffee depending on how easily I woke up.

9:00AM - Begin the work day.

10:00AM - Start spinning one of my various Rdio playlists to keep up the momentum

12:00PM - Contemplate eating lunch.

12:02PM - Decide that it definitely time to eat and cobble something together at home.

2:05PM - Start the routine drive to school for one of several of my last couple design studios before graduation.

3:45PM - Leave class for Condesa Coffee to grab a mid-day brew. Ethiopian is my staple.

5:30PM - Finish up at school and decide what dinner plans are.

6:30PM - Finally decide what to make for dinner and who to eat it with.

7:05PM - Start on whatever current school project that is probably due tomorrow.

9:00PM - Get distracted by personal projects and snacks.

1:00-3:00AM Set my alarms and immediately fall to sleep.

• 0445 = Cat moves around bed
• 0530 = Cat moves around bed again
• 0650 = Alarm
• 0700 = Shower, etc
• 0725 = Breakfast, twitter, facebook, world news etc
• 0805 = Walk to work
• 0845 = Coffee pickup
• 0855 = Arrive at office
• 0900 – 1000 = E-mails, work related news/blogs. Sometimes work.
• 1000 – 1200 = Work
• 1200 = usually Chipotle :-)
• 1220 – 1300 = eat, read more stuff, type comments like this one
• 1300 – 1530 = Work (head down, headphones on. "Flow" type work)
• 1530 = optional coffee break
• 1545 – 1800 = work
• 1800 = walk home (sometimes via grocery store)
• 1845 – 1900 arrive home (depends on groceries)
• 1900 = Jeopardy!
• 1930 – 2200 = Cooking, chores, internetting, personal projects, video games. This really depends on the day.
• 2200 = get into bed, usually put a podcast or BBC documentary on iPad
• 2230 – 2345 = Fall asleep somewhere in here depending on how tied I am.

Here's my schedule. Note, I don't do everything everyday. Depends on my mood, energy, and who I'm working for at a certain time in my life:

• 6:30a -- Wake up and run
• 7:00a -- Shower & Get Dressed
• 7:30a -- Breakfast & Make Bed
• 8:00a -- Start work (9-5 office/freelance work at home/freelance work in starbucks)
• 11:30a - 12:30p -- Lunch
• 4p - 5p -- Drive home or phone calls
• 6p -- Reflect and Review
• 7p -- Side project
• 8p -- Dinner
• 8:30p -- Gaming or relax
• 9:30p -- Leftover freelance work
• 10:30p -- Meditation
• 11p - 12a -- Fall sleep period

• 6:30 to 6:45 — Alarm
• 6:45 to 7:05 — Scrub up
• 7:05 to 7:30 — Breakfast and lunch prep
• 7:30 to 8:00 — Personal work / web reading / YouTube
• 8:00 to 8:30 — Walk to work
• 8:30 to 9:15 — Personal work / work emails /web reading
• 9:15 to 12:30 — Work
• 12:30 to 1:30 — Lunch / personal work / web reading
• 1:30 to 5:00 — Work
• 5:00 to 5:30 — Work / web reading
• 5:30 to 6:00 — Walk home
• 6:00 to 7:30 — Try to cook and eat something
• 7:30 to 11:30 — Time with girlfriend or personal work or gaming
• 11:30 to 6:30 — Sleep

This is a really strict schedule I'd like to add, I never follow it to the letter. I'm not a robot after all.

Not an interesting schedule but here goes

• 5:00–5:30 alarm (I use the sleep cycle alarm app)
• 5:30 get ready
• 6:20 bus to work
• 7:00–7:10ish walk to work
• 7:10–7:20 breakfast/personal projects
• 7:45 work
• 1:30 lunch
• 2:30 work
• 4:20 leave work
• 5:40 home
• 6ish food, rest, whatever
• 9:30–10 bed

I kind of work round the buses which is why my start/end work times may seem a little odd. I get quite an early bus to avoid sitting in traffic for an extra half an hour.

• 7.00 — Alarm
• 7.10 - 8.00 — Shower & Breakfast
• 8.00 — Leave the flat
• 8.40 — Arrive at work / Coffee / Check daily planner (I forget everything I don't write down)
• 9.00 — Social media & Emails
• 10.00 - 13.00 — Work
• 13.00 - 13.30 — Lunch
• 13.30 - 17.30 — Work
• 17.30 - 17.45 — Write down tasks for following day
• 17.45 — Leave work
• 16.00 - 19.30 — Gym or Football
• 20.00 — Dinner & Meal prep for following day
• 21.00 - 22.30 — Personal work / Watch TV / Hang out with flatmates
• 23.00 (ish) — Bed

My daily routine is quite rigid due to the 9-5 job but evenings have some room for movement. I'm not going to insult your intelligence and say I have the motivation to get to the gym every day.

I made a site to share stories like these a while back! http://whatdyoudoyesterday.com/

Man you people get up super early! I work at home so I can at least humblebrag about my schedule. This is a typical weekday:

• 7:30 or 8:00am alarm
• Get ready, be online by 8:30am
• At least two cups of coffee, eat something around 9:00am
• Lunch whenever I have a break between meetings
• Work until 2:00 or 3:00pm (office is EST so everything quiets down around then)
• Gym from 3:00-4:00pm (3x a week)
• Dinner at 5:00 or 6:00pm
• Watch TV with wife, chip away at work for a few more hours
• Bed around 10:00pm or later, depending on workload

No kids, no commute, and I've learned to say "no" to most side projects at this point, so I have a pretty good work/life balance.

6:30am, wife gets ready for work (teacher)

7:45am my kids and I wake up and have breakfast, i make their lunch

8:40am, we leave the house and i take them to school

9:15am or so....i get to work

9:20am read emails and check messages etc

9:30am checking out the latest design news and articles

9:45am work on whatever projects are on the list for the day

12:00 - lunch....

1pm continue whatever projects are on the list...

5pm, head home

6pm, take kids to martial arts practice

7pm we have supper

8pm kids in pajamas, we chillout a bit, read together, or watch a movie on netflix or something...

9pm - on....either relax with my wife, or go to the gym for a bit...

Nothing special...

• 6:30 AM – Wake up, eat breakfast
• 7:30 AM – Leave for office
• 8:00 AM – Work
• 12:00 PM – Lunch
• 12:45 PM – Work
• 4:00 PM – Go to Gym
• 5:15 PM – Go Home
• 5:30 PM – Hang out with Family, eat dinner
• 6:30 PM – Play with kids
• 9:00 PM – Kids in bed
• 10:00 PM – Adults in bed

https://youtu.be/0BjGA7Qs75g?t=57s

(sorry for the worst possible quality)

• 5:30 am Alarm.

• 6:00 am Backup alarm.

• 6:40 am – 7:00 am Get out the door and on the road.

• 8:30 am – 9:00 am Arrive at work (long commute). Call wife and tell her I survived Atlanta's traffic.

• 10:20 am Morning meeting with the designers, developers, product owners and scrum masters within my department.

• 12:00 pm Lunch. Check in on wife.

• 1:00 pm Continue workday.

• 5:00 pm or 6:00 pm Leave for home.

• 7:45 pm Arrive home (again...long commute).

• 8:00 pm Dinner, hang out, chit chat with wife and other family.

• 9:00 pm Start winding down and head for bed where I'll sit and look at a phone screen for a bit.

• 10:00 pm or 11:00 pm Lights out.

Tomorrow – Rinse, wash, repeat.

My commute is really rough right now. I really love where I work though so it's worth it for now until my wife and I find something closer.

I actually planned out my week on a calendar last night, partly to see what I need to do this week and also to make sure I'm spending my time where I should be.

• 6:55am Alarm and get out of bed
• 7-7:40 Shower and dress
• 7:40-8 Breakfast and reading
• 8-8:30 Free time
• 8:30am-12:30pm Work. (I'm remote)
• 12:30-1:30 Lunch and family
• 1:30-5:30 Work
• 5:30-6 Free time. Read. Personal stuff.
• 6-7 Dinner and cleanup
• 7-9:30 Family stuff. Weeknight events. Personal time. Sometimes exercise.
• 9:30-10:30 Resist sleep. Think about all the things I didn't do but want to. Maybe read or work on cool stuff.
• 10:30-11 Sleep...

• 6am to 8: Wake up and fuck around until
• 8 to 8:30: Shower get dressed for
• 8:30 to 9: Cycling to work
• 9 to 12: Working
• 12 to 1: Lunching
• 1 to 5: Working
• 5 to 5:30: Undress relax
• 5:30 to 10:30: Netflix, Twitch TV, Food and Sex.

• 5:15am Alarm
• 5:30 Run (or head to gym, depending on the day)
• 6:15 Shower, Read, Breakfast, Commute to office
• 7:15-ish Start Work
• Noon-ish Lunch, games with co-workers
• 12:45 Back to work
• 4:00 Commute to the Homefront
• 5:30 Dinner
• 6:30 play with kids, oversee chores, read to kids, prepare them for bed
• 8:00 Spend time with my wife, read, watch tv, prepare for next day
• 10:00 Sleeeeep

Typical weekday schedule for days that feel productive:

• 5:05am Alarm
• 5:45 Drive to office, listen to podcasts
• 6:30 Mediate (using headspace app) and brew tea (from sevencups.com)
• 7:00 Focus on completing a difficult work task
• 8:00 Check email, twitter, todoist, slack and begin the workday
• 10:00 Walk to cafe with notebook for food, coffee & sketching
• 11:30 Continue workday & meetings
• 5-5:30 Drive home
• 6:00 Dinner with wife & two toddlers
• 7:00 Put our girls to bed
• 7:30 Relax with wife and/or quick workout
• 10:00pm-ish Read nook in bed

Mine:

• 6:40am Alarm
• 7:00am Alarm 2
• 7:10am Shower
• 8:00am Catch Bus to Work
• 9:00a Office & Breakfast
• 9:10am Work away
• 12:15pm Lunch
• 13:00pm Work Away
• 6:00pm Commute home
• 7:00pm Cook & Eat
• 8:30pm Chill *10:30pm Sleep