Track every minute of your life for 3 months
Have you ever tracked every minute of your day? It’s an eye-opening experiment.
Wondering where all of your time went at the end of every day? Track every minute of your life and learn how you spend it.
Why you should Track your time?
It’s hard to know if we’re really making efficient use of your time without tracking it. Insights you gain from this experiment can be extremely useful to change your way of planning and managing your time. Famous philosopher Peter Drucker said “What gets measured, get managed”
The point is not to figure out how much time you waste. The point is to make sure you are not telling yourself false stories (“I work full-time so I have no time to workout” — that sort of thing).
There is an idiom “Death by 1000 cuts” which means small things add up and over time have a huge impact.
How do you track the time?
Track exactly how you spent your time, down to half-hour increments.
Google Calendar
Time Tracking Apps
Toggl
- a free time tracking app
- Available on Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, Windows, web, and browser extensions
Timedoctor
- app for reducing distractions
- Available on MacOS, Windows, Linux, iOS, Android, Chrome, Firefox, Brave
What challenges you might face?
Remembering that you need to track everything might be a challenge at first. After all, it is a habit and just like any other habit, it takes time to be formed. One strategy that might help you is “habit stacking” — tying the new behavior to an existing one.
Others doing the Challenge
