Recently I have been going back to my seven-day-a-week work schedule. It is difficult to gauge your work effort when you don’t have the usual 9-to-5 job. Being mostly in control of my own time, the boundary between my personal life and my work life is extremely blurry. In fact, it is virtually non-existence until recently, when I stopped taking all my math work back home (but soon enough I know I am going to do that again, say, this evening.)
What bothers me, however, is not the amount of time I spent on research work and the lack of a perhaps more “normal” life; instead, it is the unproductive time spent in the office that makes me squinch. For some reason (probably the recent addition of tech-toys to my everyday life), my mind is not as apt at controlling my actions as it used to be. Trifle things like checking Amazon.com’s Goldbox are being quite the hurdle to jump over and continue my research work.
I think it’s time for a good look at the mirror. I need my disciplined self back.
