[ali92hm]

Yeah, I've been meaning to instrument my time to see how it's being spent on a more granular level. I do keep logs and notes from my daily work and tasks currently though. So I know when I started on what and when it was finished.

But to answer your question, I don't think it's just the feeling of finishing a task. Yesterday, I woke up and felt well rested. I stretched, made breakfast and had some introspection time, started grabbing tasks one at a time from my side project and finishing them. Then I picked up a book that I've been reading and read for 2 hours and I also finished some random chores.

This morning, I woke up and I cant get out of the bed (this is not just Monday effect, I've felted on other days). I don't know if this exhaustion is because of being too excited last night from all I've done and not being able to have a good night sleep, or just I've exhausted myself yesterday and don't feel like doing anything today. Or I would have felt this way anyways.

I do think though the ground work is done on the less productive days in terms of restoration. My girlfriend got a dog about 10 months ago, and I can see the same behavior in the dog. She runs around and exhausts herself on a hike one day and then just sunbathes and chills the next day. It seems like our hunter gatherer ancestors behaved the same way.

[creakingstairs]

I’ve been wondering about the same thing for awhile, but I’ve been mainly focused on physical and mental health side of things.

Of course it’s easier to get up for a task that’s exciting, but I found that my motivation seems to be strongly correlated with my physical well being. One part I’ve been looking at recently is what I eat and how that affects my gut health which affects my mood and motivation.

That being said physical wellness is definitely the only factor as I still get quite big down time (had one yesterday) but not as often and long as I used to have.