You Need To Start Tracking Your Time

If you’re serious about eradicating time excuses, do this. For the next seven days, write down every single thing you do from the moment you wake up to the moment you go to sleep.

There’s an even more obvious way to find the time to do the things you value. But it’s probably the most underused method there is: time blocking. Time blocking is a fancy way of saying: ‘If you want to get something done, stick it in your calendar.’ But I’m not just talking about meetings; I’m talking about time for intensive work, time for admin,

How to Track Your Time

To gain this credibility, I recommend, at first, when considering a new project, you estimate how much time it will require and then go find that time and schedule it on your calendar. Block off the hours as you would for a meeting. If you’re unable to find enough blank spaces in your schedule in the near future to easily fit the work, then you don

Since most of us aren’t even aware of how much time daily job maintenance takes up, Glei suggests doing a productivity audit once or twice a year: for a week or two, record what tasks you’re working on, for how long, and where the big distractions lie.