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Discussion on: Remember to rest. There's more to life than code.

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Dennis Tobar

Hi Patrick, thanks for sharing us your ideas (and hugs to recover from burnout).

I had almost the same routine, but after I used my Pomodoro routine (I called the Limachino routine, due to a tomato in my country), I used to stay 45 minutes doing work, answering email or video calls (yes, 45 minutes) and 15 minutes to do another thing at home: coffee, bath, read a book or walk to relax.

Set up your time, write some tasks to do or goals to be accomplished in the day, and try to cover them in the day. (yes, beginner recommendation, but every time comes to the rescue :))

Hang in there, and hear your body when it says "no more."

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Patrick Wendo

I now have a daily planner, and I try to keep track of the time as best as I can. It helps with the process.

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Dennis Tobar

Don't be crazy writing everything there: some colleagues were very extreme and wrote everything. Uses something helps to stay at day but not a slave of your system: do what works with you (why? I used a lot of apps, Kanban and others: currently, I'm working with pen and paper and Eisenhower method to see the whole picture).

You did the first step, it is a good starting point =)

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Julien Dephix

I find marking a todo item as done with a pen more satisfying than moving a task from todo to done in Jira.

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Dennis Tobar

I love pen and paper, because you can write more things or draw or do easily anything to keep tracked your tasks. And yes, the paper doesn't have search interface, capability to send emails or share tasks, but I don't care, these are MY TASKS, Jira/Trello/whatever has the teams tasks 😉