1. exercise<p>2. Am I exhausted from my day job? no -> side projects yes -> netflix<p>3. Read books.<p>4. Do dishes and other chores. My girlfriend cooks so it frees up a ton of time.
I get home around 7-8. Half of the time I'll cook dinner with my wife, talk about our days as we cook, eat dinner together. Around 8:30 or 9:00 we'll hang out in the living room. If I have energy and am feeling ambitious, or I have to work a bit extra, we will listen to music and I will code (for work, or open source, or side projects), while she reads. This might last until midnight, and then we'll go to bed. I try to read for at least fifteen minutes before bed on a kindle as I wind down. Seems to work well.<p>If I'm too tired to work, we'll watch netflix together.<p>Two nights a week I try to exercise (martial arts classes) and instead of cooking I'll get take out or eat at the local inexpensive Japanese or Mexican restaurant.
I get home between 7 and 8pm. Usually my evening goes:<p>1. Yoga at my neighborhood studio<p>2. Dinner (eggs and toast with kimchi, maybe sauteed kale if I'm feeling ambitious)<p>3. Reading time or, if feeling lazy, I listen to a podcast and crochet for a little bit.<p>4. A small amount of writing (at the very least a journal entry)<p>As you can see... the last thing I want to do when I get home is touch code. But maybe this is why I'm a mediocre developer...<p>Does anyone have any advice as to how I can actually want to code when I get home???
I reach home somewhere around 7.<p>Finish my dinner by 7:30<p>Fool around for next 30 mins.<p>At 8 I start coding.<p>I am a newbie developer, I have many things to learn before I can work on a project that really matters. So, most of my coding time is spent learning new things like C Socket programming, iOS development, etc
Get home between 5 and 7 (if I go downtown). Play with my son, eat dinner, clean up some. Bath and bed for the kid, then spending some time with my wife. Then I either do more work, dink around on reddit, or read.
Pick two to three, repeat until tired.<p>1. Unnecessary social networking<p>2. Make music<p>3. Paint<p>4. Go for a walk<p>5. Go out to eat<p>6. Consume recreational inebriants<p>7. Watch move/tv show