If none of this other great advice works, and you only have 1-2 hours anyhow, vaporized cannabis.
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#12Take local leave, depending on your job - ideally contiguous with the weekends. It's how I do it.
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#13Don't work too hard at work so that you have some energy left afterwards. (easier said than done)
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#14Put on some music you like and work for as long as it takes to drink two beers. Work with joy.
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#15I did it in the mornings. 1 hour every day. I was surprisingly efficient
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#16Work less. Keep you brain with enough energy for the important things.
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#17I did it in the mornings. 1 hour every day. I was surprisingly efficient
This. Keep a clear list of tasks to do, when you wake up earlier in zombie mode you will just see the tree in front of you and won't get lost in the unsolvable forest of the day before.
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#18not sure, i do find innner energy or desire to build something but there are also days when i am exhausted.
on the other hand when i watch something or play games something is growing in me which forces me to continue to work on my project.
i do have a lot of side projects and maybe half of them are "finished"