Personal development (e.g., journaling, classes or workshops, inspiring reading) Professional development (e.g., business development, networking, job applications) After some brainstorming, I landed on the following eight categories: So, I thought about my life and the areas where I wanted to devote time to. I needed to come up with some general categories of where my time went in order to be able to label each time entry and make that data meaningful. Over the course of the month, I’d track over 43,000 minutes. (Spoiler alert: Like tracking your budget to manage your finances or your daily calorie intake to manage your diet, tracking your time can help you manage your most precious resource.) Step 1: Choose Your Time Categories Here’s how I did it, what I learned, and why you might want to do it, too. So, I decided to track every moment of my time for a month and find out how my idea of how I spent my time matched up with reality. Something must be taking more time than it deserves, and I wanted to figure out what so I could stop wasting time and make every day more meaningful. And yet, I often get to the end of the day and feel like I didn’t have enough time for everything that mattered. Even accounting for a healthy eight hours of sleep, that’s nearly 1,000 minutes to fill with everything you want to do. We actually have a lot of minutes every day-1,440 of them to be specific. But how many people really know how they spend every minute or their days? No matter what you think your priorities are, what you actually devote your time to is what you’re choosing to make a priority in your life. "What we do with this hour and that one is what we are doing." "How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives," wrote author Annie Dillard.
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