Time Tracking Categories of Life
As someone who tracks nearly everything they do in a calendar, I thought I would go one step further and track everything for a week.
As someone who tracks nearly everything they do in a calendar, I thought I would go one step further and track everything for a week. So for a random week in November, I tracked all my time, I mean everything, even sleep. You might be thinking why would anyone want to time track everything they do, but, there are a lot of cases where people do this. Freelancers, for example, time track their work for accurate billing and in a past life I also had to track my working time. If it works for an employer to know where you are spending your time, why can't it work for you?
Overall Breakdown
To start this time-tracking exercise, I broke down my time into the 6 categories of life, Personal, Health, Career, Fitness, Education and Finance. As some of these categories are quite broad, I decided to break each one down further. To my surprise, I spend a lot of time working, sleeping or just doing personal things. Some initial callouts would have to be, how little time I spend travelling/commuting, (thanks to working from) home and the amount of time I waste on social media and streaming.
Career
The first category of life is Career and much to my surprise I only spent 45 hours at work that week. I am also happy with the ratio of dedicated work to time spent in meetings. Working remotely can be difficult and I find myself in a lot more meetings, mostly because it's easier than trying to write out a message on teams.
