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Originally Posted by offthegrid
I like knitting, sewing and illustration but I also have a part-time job. I work my job 25-30 hours a week but I schedule maybe 15 hours a week outside of that for drawing and then work on my knitting a bit before going to sleep at night. I like sewing less than those other things so I take a day or two a month to really work on sewing projects. I don't use my knitting time to look up things for my art. Each activity has to stay in it's lane. Any time researching is spent NOT doing an actual activity.
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Thanks for sharing your experience, this is how I am actually trying to organize things in my life (at least lately). Good to know that this can actually work for someone. I have come to a point when it is absolutely obvious for me that even if I go with small steps, "Each activity has to stay in it's lane", otherwise it's just endless jumping from one thing to another without actually "picking up where I left".
So what I am trying to do now is to define what my actual project is for each activity, outline the steps to some measurable final result and then schedule the time with reminder of when I will be able to commit 100% to that activity. Yesterday I have set a reminder for myself to start painting at 6PM and also planning what exactly I will start to do. What I have found out is that this allowed me to clear my mind and handle quite a bit of work before that time. So I really hope now that this approach will continue to work.