This week (Friday through yesterday), I decided to finally start a project I’ve been thinking of doing for awhile. The idea was simple but I knew that the execution would be tedious before I even began — I was going to track every minute of my time for one week to do an audit of how I’m using my time (think of it as a budget for your time). This project was inspired both by Laura Vanderkam and Chris Bailey. The Week This was not an ideal week for the project. We spent and entire day helping someone move, had a birthday party, and socialized way too much. Then, out of nowhere, two new opportunities came my way and I had to shift my attention from working over to them instead. Out of the seven days, I spent 5 working but, since I was tracking every minute, I obviously didn’t count a “workday” as 8 hours — rather, I only really worked a total of 17 hours and 45 minutes over five days. Again, this week got away from me a little bit in terms of work. What I’ve Learned Despite knowing that I was keeping track and going to hold myself accountable, I somehow spent almost 15-and-a-half hours doing, well, nothing. This “nothing” […]
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