💯 Project: Time Tracking
Step 1: Track
Track your time. There are many ways to do this. One is: twice a day, write down what you did since the last checkin. One sentence or bullet point per activity is fine. Writing/guessing how long you did it is optional.
To remember to do it twice a day, set alarms on your phone, or connect it to other activities, e.g. do a check-in when you eat a meal.
Step 2: Compare
After a week or so, compare the activities you did to the activities you'd like to do. (You'll have to think about your goals.) Keep doing this regularly. Pick a frequency like 1 or 2 weeks and put it on your calendar with an alarm.
Project Purpose:
You need to understand yourself and how you use your time in order to potentially control or change it, or to know what's going on in your life. This is useful info. If you don't know what you do or why, you're in a bad position to choose and do any projects. Having some insight into your time use helps get you in a position to do other projects like learning something.
Notes:
Do not try to make yourself do your ideal schedule.
Do not judge yourself. You're gathering info and trying to understand yourself. Be open-minded not judgmental.
You do not have to change at all in this project. Changing is optional. If you want to make changes, start with one small thing at a time. Make sure to consider the upsides and benefits of whatever you're going to stop doing. What do you like about it? Why were you doing it? How can you get the genuine benefits another way without doing that activity? And consider the downsides of whatever you're going to do instead. Why haven't you been doing it already? Is it hard? Confusing? Expensive? Tiring? You don't know how to organize it? You'll need a plan to address those issues. Your plan might not work but you can consider what went wrong, make a new plan, and try again.
You do not have to share what you did or your comparisons. That's personal. You can share specific parts if you want to. Viewing it as public would make it harder to write or to think freely.
Track your time. There are many ways to do this. One is: twice a day, write down what you did since the last checkin. One sentence or bullet point per activity is fine. Writing/guessing how long you did it is optional.
To remember to do it twice a day, set alarms on your phone, or connect it to other activities, e.g. do a check-in when you eat a meal.
Step 2: Compare
After a week or so, compare the activities you did to the activities you'd like to do. (You'll have to think about your goals.) Keep doing this regularly. Pick a frequency like 1 or 2 weeks and put it on your calendar with an alarm.
Project Purpose:
You need to understand yourself and how you use your time in order to potentially control or change it, or to know what's going on in your life. This is useful info. If you don't know what you do or why, you're in a bad position to choose and do any projects. Having some insight into your time use helps get you in a position to do other projects like learning something.
Notes:
Do not try to make yourself do your ideal schedule.
Do not judge yourself. You're gathering info and trying to understand yourself. Be open-minded not judgmental.
You do not have to change at all in this project. Changing is optional. If you want to make changes, start with one small thing at a time. Make sure to consider the upsides and benefits of whatever you're going to stop doing. What do you like about it? Why were you doing it? How can you get the genuine benefits another way without doing that activity? And consider the downsides of whatever you're going to do instead. Why haven't you been doing it already? Is it hard? Confusing? Expensive? Tiring? You don't know how to organize it? You'll need a plan to address those issues. Your plan might not work but you can consider what went wrong, make a new plan, and try again.
You do not have to share what you did or your comparisons. That's personal. You can share specific parts if you want to. Viewing it as public would make it harder to write or to think freely.
not sharing seems good. id definitely be more hesitant to write freely in time tracking if i knew it was going to be public
ok i should figure out which activities id like to do. i am going to right now make a text file with the activities i think would be good/id like to do
i can have both of those, that makes sense.
the firsts categories i added, i started with specific things, and then made the specific thing into a category. i tried to figure out what kind of category the specific thing was in.
so you like need to know what you are doing so you can change it, or make a decision if you like it or not. making a decision that something you already do is something that you like doing, and you want to keep doing it, is better than not making a decision about it, and just doing it cuz its something you already do.