New Routine or Do You Have the Hustle?

I don’t have enough time in the day. I don’t know anyone past the age of 25 who does. I am constantly lamenting about how I’d like to do all these things, fit all of these new learning ambitions, building apps and sites, while going to school, maintaining three blogs, a podcast, and other social presences, as well as hitting the gym like I used to into one day. Yet I often, when not tasked with having to get up early, stayed up late and got up in just enough time to get my day started, go to class, come home, order something because I’d be so tired, do minimal homework, and not have time to do anything else.

This bothered me. A lot. I kept reading a lot of terrible life hacking articles on Medium telling me I should get up at an ungodly hour because things look better when you have a whole day to do something.

But what I got done.

I had purchased JavaScript: Understanding the Weird Parts at Udemy for a ridiculously low price and heard good things about it. I wanted to dive in. I did that for a whole hour. By 6 I was ready to move on to Treehouse.

I went to Treehouse and learned more about AJAX. By 8, 2 hours before I had to leave, I had done more than I would have if I had waited till the end of the day. I went and did some homework at 8 and by 9:30 I was ready to leave.

I don’t have enough time in the day. I don’t know anyone past the age of 25 who does. I am constantly lamenting about how I’d like to do all these things, fit all of these new learning ambitions, building apps and sites, while going to school, maintaining three blogs, a podcast, and other social presences, as well as hitting the gym like I used to into one day. Yet I often, when not tasked with having to get up early, stayed up late and got up in just enough time to get my day started, go to class, come home, order something because I’d be so tired, do minimal homework, and not have time to do anything else.

This bothered me. A lot. I kept reading a lot of terrible life hacking articles on Medium telling me I should get up at an ungodly hour because things look better when you have a whole day to do something.

But what I got done.

I had purchased JavaScript: Understanding the Weird Parts at Udemy for a ridiculously low price and heard good things about it. I wanted to dive in. I did that for a whole hour. By 6 I was ready to move on to Treehouse.

I went to Treehouse and learned more about AJAX. By 8, 2 hours before I had to leave, I had done more than I would have if I had waited till the end of the day. I went and did some homework at 8 and by 9:30 I was ready to leave.

I want to build cool things. I want to be a full stack developer. Nothing has grabbed my attention like this. But I also need security. A steady income. I don’t have that right now. So getting up at the crack of dawn to improve my chances of being a good developer when I am all said in done is worth the tired eyes on the commute back home at 6 PM. Time to hustle like my life depends on it, because it honestly almost does.