I was ruminating in my journal on what my ideal post-FIRE day might look like and one thing that jumped out at me is that I would like some quiet time to plan my day. Well, I'd benefit from that even in pre-FIRE life so I'd like to start building the habit now. I find that planning in the morning is almost too late--I really function best if I make a plan the afternoon/evening before, so my mind has time to work through things and I have time to take care of any small potential roadblocks (e.g. if I plan the night before to work out in the morning, I will decide on a workout and lay out the appropriate workout clothing, making it much more likely that I will get in a workout).
I'd like to start out with a goal of 30 days spending at least 5 minutes in the afternoon or evening planning out my day. I'm going to designate 4pm as my primary planning time slot: On weekdays I'm at the office and rarely have meetings scheduled. 4pm is enough before my departure time that planning then should also leave me time to do physical preparation (say, get out files relevant to a project I want to work on, or set up my desk in a certain way), or write out in more detail what is needed to achieve a particular work goal. On weekends, my son and husband are fairly reliably out of the house and at the park playing, so again, it should be possible for me to get in a quick 5 minutes to jot down some goals/plans for the next day.
Anyone else in?