Discovering My 'Likes' During a New Year Spent Freely

It is only the third day of the year, and I am already writing my second note. The day I finally break free from being a slacker might not be so far off...!

Jokes aside. But then again, it is not entirely a joke; from New Year's Eve through January 2nd, I was preparing myself to work hard from here on out.

Since I spent this much time on it, I will summarize what I did over these three days of the year-end and New Year holidays, if only to put pressure on myself to use my time efficiently from now on!

Improvements for 2024 and Goals for 2025 Discovered Through Dialogue with AI

Using this video as a reference, I looked back on 2024! I was able to clarify my areas for improvement for 2024 and my goals for 2025, so I spent the three days starting from New Year's Eve based on those.

The areas for improvement and goals that this slacker wife used as a benchmark are as follows.

Areas for Improvement in 2024

• To reduce fluctuations in concentration, break down tasks, estimate the time required, and strengthen schedule management.

• When feeling unconfident, devise ways to break down work and proceed one step at a time.

Goals for 2025

• Establish a habit of making progress on at least one thing every day and value the act of building up.

• Strengthen task management during spare time to accelerate note monetization.

• Develop the habit of going to bed early and waking up early, and maximize the use of morning activity time.

• Balance establishing healthy lifestyle habits for my children with working efficiently.

Things I wanted to do to manage my schedule effectively

• Calculate estimated times for each task

• Create a daily to-do list to achieve my goals

First, what I wanted to do was calculate the estimated time for each task. As an online assistant who works by the hour, I record the start and end times of my work to track my daily working hours.

Based on that, I wanted to incorporate the 'time it will likely take' into my schedule to visualize the time I have available to work.

• I don't have that much time to spare

• The deadline is still far off, but there are few days available to work.

I hope that once I have a clear understanding of this, I'll feel like, 'This is no time to be lazy!'

I realized that my work is taking an incredibly long time.

I calculated the estimated time for each task. I ran out of steam after calculating the routine tasks for writing and assistant work, so I will check my monthly work hours from now on to clarify the estimated time for each task.

And, once again, the reality that it takes over 24 hours to write 6,000 characters has been brought to light.

Wait, that takes way too long... No wonder I'm not making money. It was the right decision to stop doing SEO writing!

By the way, the reason the research time is short is because I also do research while creating outlines and writing. I think it would be more efficient to separate research as 'Research!', but I'm not very good at that yet.

I achieved my ideal with Notion Calendar!

To put it briefly, I was able to achieve something I've wanted to do for years using Notion Calendar.

When I was busy creating all sorts of sheets, I suddenly had an idea and decided to try using Notion. I had wanted to learn how to use Notion for a while, but it's so multifunctional that I didn't know where to start.

However, after searching around and finding a wonderful template, I was suddenly filled with motivation!

I'm very pleased with how it turned out after arranging things and registering tasks; it feels quite ideal.

I was able to achieve a long-held dream of displaying estimated times on the calendar to visualize how much free time I have left. It's wonderful.

It's too much fun to build tools for management... but back to reality.

I've always loved making tables in Google Sheets or Excel. I love formulas. In the same way, I had a lot of fun playing around with Notion even without really knowing what I was doing!

I think that being able to lose track of time and focus is a sign of something I truly love, so I hope I can connect this to my work.

...So, I tried escaping from reality, but when I looked at the calendar again, I realized I don't actually have much free time.

When I added my work schedule for the week ahead, along with morning preparations, nursery school drop-offs, and lunch plans... wow, I really don't have any time.

If I incorporate the 12 hours of routine assistant work here and do the one-off jobs I have on my plate... there really is no time to be lazy.

It seems I won't be able to do housework in 2025 either!