Trying to enjoy those evening hours (a time log analysis)

How I spend time after work and before bed

Evening hours are hard to use well. Everyone is tired. If we’ve had to manage our work hours carefully, it can be challenging to muster any sort of intentionality for the time after work and before bed.

I’m all for going easy on ourselves. But the trouble with letting things go as they go on weekday evenings is that this a lot of time to simply write off. Especially as the weather is nicer, I’ve been challenging myself to try to use evening hours better.

My time log from a recent week is printed at the end of this piece. Here’s are my observations on what can be helpful (and also what didn’t really work).