Schedules Again

So last week I finally accepted that I can’t seem to get much writing done in the evening and came up with a solution. I don’t know if it’ll work.
The solution: Take my two-hour lunch break and chop it to one hour. Then I have five extra hours a week to play with. Instead, I do secondary stuff (reading the paper, cleaning) in the evening, but no writing except blogging.
Except it’s actually a half-hour lunch break because I’ve started taking my daily walk/bicycle ride in the morning. At this time last year, I was living in a very unwalkable, unbikeable place so my weekday exercising was all on the stationary bike. Now, I have miles of trails and sidewalk to explore, which I think is much healthier (the stationary doesn’t give me the pushback I get going up a hill). The stationary, I could ride at noon, during lunch. As we move into summer that’s not going to fly. So I might as well start now.
I’m honestly not sure a 30 minute lunch break will be enough for me to destress. It may be, so we’ll give it a try. So far it’s done okay, but it hasn’t been a good test—I’ve gotten disturbed by noise or TYG getting up early the past couple of nights and so I end up doing a lot of work early.
The big problem, knowing me, will be making myself not chip away at the half-hour break. The sense of “oh, if I do just 15 minutes, I’ll be able to finish and really relax that much earlier!” is always with me, but it’s a trap. If I don’t take the break I feel worse.
We’ll see how it goes. I doubt it’s a permanent solution—sooner or later, every schedule change I make gets changed—but it may hold for a while.
And I am getting more work done.