Anyone else have a problem with just losing track of time?

[Sinergy]

I've noticed this lately. When I first began producing, not too long I would get fatigue, frustrated, tired, or just want to do something else after a couple hours at most.

Now it's getting to the point, where I'm really on my feet with all of this. Where on school nights I try to keep myself from even opening up my DAW, cause if I open it at 5pm thinking i'll have plenty of time to do homework, there is simply no way I'm shutting down everything before like 10pm.

Take today for instance; I have a project due to tomorrow, probably won't take too long, so I decided to hop on at about 6pm and here I am, it's 10pm, past the cusp of getting 8 hours of sleep tonight (I have to be up by 6:15am). Plus I have work to do now. Not only that, but now my mind is still just teeming of different things I could be doing in live. Hell, usually what happens is doing homework gets stretched out because to sort of ween myself out of producing I end up on here or some other forum discussing production, like right now for example. And even if I finish homework I can't just go to bed if my laptop is on the desk next to me ready to write beats. I usually have great self-control, but damn.

This school year I have never been more sleep deprived ever in my life, not to mention I never have the energy to workout/exercise like I used to.

Any tips/similar situations?

[Mazak]

As per the usual response...

Unplug the internet, phone on silent, and tell your bitch to fuck off for the evening. Shit is proven to work. Trust.

[wub]

Work on your time management skills, it's not that difficult to juggle work/study, personal life, music etc and still find time to eat/sleep as required.

[Sinergy]

Oh I could imagine juggling work, but I juggle work AND school. And this is still highschool, so unlike in college where I can probably make it so I don't have class till near noon; I have to be up at ass o'clock each morning...

But yes, I am adjusting to having a laptop in my bedroom whereas the desktop was stationary and couldn't magically follow me around the house late at night... Thanks for the advice. I'll try some of those mazak.

[Ficticious]

True... Juggling work and school is rough for me..

See I really LOVE MUSIC BEYOND MY OWN TIME...

+ I have ADD so I hyper focus (Every track I start I get sucked into and have to finish, as long as it's flowing for me...In like 5months time I must have finished over 30 something tracks experiments and such... Maybe a lot more now with the collaborations and such (Oh god whats wrong with me! <Nothing I just love music too much to let go.)

Anyways...

Simply don't open your DAW. Done. THat or make a complete track and run out of emotionon/ideas for a couple days (Like I do ) then go back to it on your free day.

[wub]

Oh I could imagine juggling work, but I juggle work AND school. And this is still highschool, so unlike in college where I can probably make it so I don't have class till near noon; I have to be up at ass o'clock each morning...

Try a 50hr working week + commute...but even that time you can be productive. I have Audacity installed on my work laptop so I can chop beats if I'm stuck on a particularly boring conference call, can hit up YouTube at lunch to watch videos etc.

But yes, I am adjusting to having a laptop in my bedroom whereas the desktop was stationary and couldn't magically follow me around the house late at night... Thanks for the advice. I'll try some of those mazak.

You could also try blocking off hours during your evenings. Like this hour I'll be chilling, this hour I'll be doing homework, this hour I'll be producing etc.

Turning off the Internet is the best advice in this thread so far though

[paradigm_x]

Wait til you get married and have kids

[wub]

Nah, I'm good for now thanks

[Electric_Head]

Wait til you get married and have kids

^this

My wife bitches at me because I spend too much time on the pc.
I turn it off and go spend time with the family, she falls asleep.

[NinjaEdit]

Nah, I'm good for now thanks

I know this feeling.

Heaps of people get stuck with something computer related during highschool. My friend spent as much time on WOW as he did at school, and he worked all weekend too. I was on the forums...

I'm not really sure what to say except basically make sure you get through. Like what grade do you actually need? Just do enough of the right study to get that. Also can you work less? How much money do you actually need (not want)?

[mthrfnk]

6am Wake
8am Work
5pm Home
6pm DAW Session
10pm TV
12am Sleep

Easy

[alphacat]

Wait til you get married and have kids

Beat me to it.

Seriously: the last tune I finished (for the Samplepack contest here) happened almost entirely in 20 minute toilet break installments. Like, 6 or 7 of them. On an iPhone.

[Aufnahmewindwuschel]

the reason why i keep doing "music" is cause i can forget about time and still maybe or maybe not contribute sth to sb, rather than just play videogames and contribute nothing.

so i dunno how i would feel if i had a imaginery timer ticking in my head while producing

[ehbes]

so unlike in college where I can probably make it so I don't have class till near noon

good luck with that

[Sinergy]

6am Wake
8am Work
5pm Home
6pm DAW Session
10pm TV
12am Sleep

Easy

I'm one of those people that if they don't get 8+ hours of sleep they grow horns.

I have friends who function on 4-6 hours easy no matter what. I just start to become stupidly irritable if I don't get at LEAST 7 or 8 hours.

[Swelly]

so unlike in college where I can probably make it so I don't have class till near noon

good luck with that

College is important. High school is nothing. Just show up to classes and you graduate. Whats so hard about that?

[twilitez]

10 PM is late?

[travis_baker]

6am Wake
8am Work
5pm Home
6pm DAW Session
12am Sleep

Easy

[Ficticious]

6am Wake
8am Work
5pm Home
6pm DAW Session
12am Sleep

Easy

You forgot shower & eat.

but yesyesyes!

[ehbes]

so unlike in college where I can probably make it so I don't have class till near noon

good luck with that

College is important. High school is nothing. Just show up to classes and you graduate. Whats so hard about that?

i find it funny how he thinks once he gets to college he can just decide that all his classes will be after 11.

and yeah HS is important, if you wanna go to a good school...