# Advice for getting burnt out?

**URL:** <https://forum.beeminder.com/t/advice-for-getting-burnt-out/7038>\
**Category:** Akrasia\
**Created:** [July 22, 2020, 5:27pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/advice-for-getting-burnt-out/7038 "2020-07-22T17:27:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![dreev](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/dreev/32/4311_2.png) [@dreev](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/dreev)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2020, 10:50pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/advice-for-getting-burnt-out/7038/11 "2020-07-23T22:50:46Z")

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Oh, yes! What @narthur said! Here’s me and @bee discovering that setting all our deadlines to 5pm was a huge help: [5pm deadlines might be life-changing](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/5pm-deadlines-might-be-life-changing/5985)

It’s now going on 9 months of 5pm deadlines and we both still really like it. Sometimes I think about how carefully constructed waterfalls could better spread out my deadline-scrambling. And very occasionally I scramble to dispatch all of my beemergencies the night before so that I can, say, get immersed in code or catch up on email during the workday. I like that a lot and am now thinking if it could be worth forcing myself to do that more. The extreme of midnight or 3am deadlines though feels like too much. That’s a recipe for procrastinating all day and then literally losing sleep over dispatching beemergencies.

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