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Because of my lifestyle, I can’t think in terms of work-life balance anymore. It’d be untrue.

I’m a lucky digital nomad / 4-hour-workweek-type of entrepreneur. This is my current home office:

So I prefer to talk about Lifework: “a work extending over a lifetime” (according to Merriam-Webster dictionary).

Having this kind of freedom can be obnoxious at first. I wanted a way to keep me on the track of what I really wanted to do.

So, the single most important thing for solving this was accountability.

I trust a two sided system:

1. Time Tracking: I consider almost everything in my life as ‘projects’. I use Yast to log the hours spent in each one.

I keep record of personal and professional activities. In this way, I log my physical training hours too.

2. Time Segmenting: Have you ever tried the Pomodoro Technique? It was the single most important hack to push my focus and attention to new highs.

It goes like this:

– Take 25 (timed) minutes to work with no distractions.

– Then, use 5 (timed) minutes to relax.

– When you finished 4 pomodoros, take a long 20 minutes break.

To make the system work: I start a countdown-timer first, and then the corresponding Yast project stopwatch.