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I totally agree with you, Imran! Years ago I had a tendency to sit up late in the night working for hours and getting way too little sleep. Consequently my social relationships really suffered from all this work. And I got too little physical exercise.

I still work late sometimes, but now I've really realized and experienced the importance of getting exercise, meeting other people (in the "real" world) and getting away from the computer. Sometimes, when I'm sitting in front of my computer, my wife has suddenly called on me asking me to help with something. Earlier I sometimes got a little bit annoyed by such interruptions, but today I've realized that such interruptions often is a great way to re-frame my whole perspective. Often, when I return to the computer after having done some physical work in the garden etc., I find that it's much easier to concentrate and focus on the online tasks I want to do.

In fact, working in shorter intervals (working for 45 min., then getting away from the computer and doing something else, then working for 45 min. again, and , then getting away from the computer and doing something else, then working for 45 min. again etc. etc.) has really made a difference in how I work today.

Years ago I read something really interesting in psychologist Neil Fiore's famous book on Procrastination, The Now Habit. On page 71 of that book he tells about an interesting study he made. In this study he followed and studied students that took many years to finish their educations. And then he compared these students to the students that finished their studies and education much faster. The difference? Now, that's really interesting. You see, the difference was that the students that finished their studies much faster took time to socialize with their friends. They took time to exercise, get away from the books etc. The slow students, on the other hand, always seemed to "work". They always studied the books. When their friends (that probably got fewer and fewer ;-) invited them to something, the long term students always excused themselves, because they had to study. But the actual result was that these students took much longer time to finish their studies.

I find that very interesting. And since then I've tried to break up the longer working periods into shorter spurts. I get outside, exercise, take a walk, make a lot of push-ups, call someone, visit some friends, take a nap or whatever. The result has really been positive. Now I don't as easily get burned out as I did earlier. When something annoys me online, I forget about it when I exercise or visit some friends. And afterwards it's often much easier to solve the problem in a calm way.

Best,
Klaus Dahl

When I get bored or feel overworked, I usually go take a couple of rides on this thing. It's only a few minutes from the house which is convenient. Plus lots of young folk around.