You Need To Start Tracking 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

Time experts suggest looking at fifteen-minute intervals, though an hourly basis from when you wake to when you go to bed should give you a good enough picture.24

Set a period of time (15 or 30 minutes), before the busyness of the day clouds your mind and impairs your judgement, to decide what’s most important and needs to get done. Set a daily (ideally digital) calendar appointment for this planning session, first thing in the morning (or last thing the night before). Make the appointment recur so you won’t

I suggest you start by giving yourself one hour of UUW time for each working day of the week (five hours a week for most people). Then scale it up or down depending on whether it feels like enough. Where possible, I recommend placing those UUW time blocks toward the end of the day and the end of the week because work tends to pile up in those spots