work & fitting chinese in

Being un-proactive isn’t paying off – I’ve been collared to help with a sales proposal and some work doing financial planning for a new Capgemini office.  Which means I no longer have all day to learn Chinese.  I’ve offered half of my time to each of these projects.  Looking at an 8 hour day, that’s about 4 hours each, to get some work realistically done.

 

Which doesn’t leave me much time for admin, email, and importantly, learning Chinese.  I can’t really reduce the work I do for these people to 2 or 3 hours.  Maybe I can, well, I’ll have to figure something out. 

 

One thing I’ve been battling with is that regardless of whether I’m studying Chinese or working, I find myself tired at the end of the day.  It’s not great, because it means I’m spending my evenings unwinding or resting instead of working hard on my Chinese.  I wonder if I can reduce the amount of thinking I’m doing in the daytime.  Maybe if I can reduce the number of things my mind is thinking about, then I can reduce my fatigue.  I’m thinking of more focus.  More planning, more focus.  More doing, less thinking, less multi-tasking.