Other people (generally) don’t control my schedule, so I do like like having blocks of time clearly marked out. But I’m much less fanatical: I just make my schedule the night before, and it’s generally a couple of 2-3 hour blocks with blank time inbetween. But it’s stress relieving for me to know, say, that my bills will be paid (or with autopay, supervised) at some point so that I can safely ignore the bills the rest of the time. Or to know that something bad isn’t going to happen because I went outside with a book for a few hours.
I wish I could do that but it looks like I can't without meds or a higher purpose (or something that motivates/obsesses me).
The magic trick here is to find something you truly enjoy doing and then figure out how to get other people to pay you to do that thing for them. Contract work/freelancing can be a joyful and rewarding way to live a "sovereign" life. ;)
It's a serious question about the meaning of life. Do we want our societies be run like Toyota factories?
Usually I just give up and bathe myself in the chaos, hoping that it's just a few years and then some semblance of sanity will return naturally.
Well, I suppose there is teaching your children discipline; depends on what you mean by whimsical demands.
You're raising a great point. While I'm not living together with my partner, we do have a little family and I'm very much with you that it's super hard to get anything done with kids around.
Unless you get up super early, stay up super late after kids are in bed, or use the time when they aren't around (e.g. kindergarden), I also think that it's almost impossible to fully focus on something for a longer period.
I guess it kind of boils down to finding the right routines. That certainly doesn't make it easier...
