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6 Ways to Help Keep You Going When Working on JavaScript Projects

jsmanifest on September 01, 2019

Find me on medium While you're coding you might feel happy, sad, tired, or unmotivated. Some of these can undermine your abilities to effectively ...
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Chris Achard

15 hours per day sounds like a bunch! But I totally get what you mean when you feel like a day ends TOO soon (even when you've been coding the entire day). Do you think that your pace will change, or do you think you'll keep doing that much for a long time into the future?

Thanks for the post - lots of good advice there :)

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jsmanifest • Edited

No problem! I will definitely not be spending 15 hours a day in the future like I currently am. It can get a little boring if you work reactively and not proactively--but thankfully some things can keep me going (as explained on this page) I haven't been able to do the things like "normal" people do, in years. Watching a movie for example; I haven't really watched a movie in over three years. Watching tv shows and movies were one of my funnest activities. It sounds bizarre. But since I do have plans to shift this lifestyle into a more social approach, it's not that much of a bother. Just going with the flow as long as I'm following my plans then everything will be okay.

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Chris Achard

Sounds like you have a plan :) Hope everything goes well for you!

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Muhammad Syafiq Hanafee

Have you calculated how much water you drink a day, while at work? In litres or whatever imperial equivalent

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jsmanifest • Edited

Hi Muhammad. Yes I have. One bottle of these is nearly equivalent to three 16.9oz of water bottles each. On average I drink a little more than 150oz of water a day

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Muhammad Syafiq Hanafee

Cool!

I hope you don't mind me asking about the semantics of your water habit.

  1. How long do you you take to drink that 150oz?
  2. For every "drink instance", how much do you drink?
  3. For every "drink instance", do you take sips or is it more of a continuous gulp?
  4. How often is your trip to the toilet?
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jsmanifest

Hi muhammad,

  1. I drink it throughout the day until I go to bed. So my last gulp of water is usually 45 minutes before I sleep.

  2. Each time I take a gulp or two of water. Every other thirty minutes I would naturally just take a couple of gulps more.

  3. I always take a gulp or more. When my water becomes warm I usually try to finish it quickly so I can refill it with iced cold water.

  4. About every hour on average.

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Muhammad Syafiq Hanafee

Awesome stuff!

So I calculated that I want to drink about 4.5 litres while at work.

I work from 10am to 6pm.

I have a mug that is 500ml.

I calculated 9 refills!

I then calculated the time it will take to do 9 refills.

Check out this schedule

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jsmanifest

Approximately one bottle an hour or half a bottle every 30 minutes is very doable! How has it been going so far?

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Another benefit of drinking lots of water - it gets you out of the chair more (for bathroom breaks!)

Great article!

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jsmanifest • Edited

Very true, Sharkie :) it's always a phenomenal choice when exercise is involved

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Mikhail Merzlyutin • Edited

Just be careful, coffee can also increase anxiety and/or make you more "locked" on sudden ideas/emotions(HSP/high sensitive people are more vulnerable to this effect). The effect is different for each person and weather/health conditions combination.