Productivity with a baby

I’ve been trying to find ways to be more productive in the last few weeks. With a new child, I want to be home by 6pm almost every day so I can feed him and put him to bed. After not being with him all day, this is a special time for me and I’ve made it a point to be there.

This timing has clashed with my previous preferred schedule. I’m someone who loves working into the evenings and stretching my afternoons. I’m on call most of the morning and early afternoon, and I don’t get a chance to be my most productive until the late afternoon and evenings.

With a more condensed and busier schedule now, I need to find more ways to be productive and that means I need to peel back in other areas of my day. Unfortunately, this means my personal time gets shorter. I no longer have the luxury of taking long lunch breaks and having leisurely workouts at the gym. Previously, I could make up for that lost time in the evenings but that’s no longer a possibility.

I also need to peel back the amount of calls I have and sticking to bigger blocks to focus on getting stuff done. This will also be hard given that I seem to live most of my day on calls. It’s going to be a big adjustment for me, but one that needs to be made to keep my sanity and work-life balance in check.