After a year and a half of huge gains from time tracking, I got away from the habit. The last time I tracked my time was 19th November 2011 – almost exactly 3 months ago.

Around that time, I started working 17 to 20 hours per day. I know people often exaggerate their hours, but I’m not doing so – I was working basically every minute of the day, and sleeping on the couch in my office.

With that sort of frenzied high-purpose action, and with a fluid set of actions of hiring/managing at the same time, I got away from tracking. The action dictated itself; there was no need to try to control or refine it.

Now, two of my big campaigns have stabilized and will largely run themselves, though they’ll need constant balancing and looking-after. Also I note that I’ve been spending relatively too much time on firefighting, and not enough following up with people on my side.

So, I’m back on tracking. I added some elements to the new sheet

——————————————-
START OF DAY ROUTINE:
Time Awake/Total Sleep:
Check Calendar:
Check Core Campaigns:
——————————————-
MUST-HAPPEN’S
*
——————————————-
NICE-TO-HAPPEN’s
*
——————————————-
QUICK CHECKLIST:
Time started:
Vitamins, stretch, brush, breathe, posture:
Borderlands, celerity, gratitude, life goals:
Time complete:
——————————————-
WHAT ARE MY CORE PEOPLE’S NEEDS?

——————————————-
ACCOMPLISHED TODAY

——————————————-
SPENDING (ESTIMATE)

Spent Well:
Spent Neutral:
Spent Poorly:
TOTAL:
——————————————-
TIME TRACKING:

MINUTES:
Enterprising:
Creative:
Fitness:
Iconography:
Thinking/planning:
–> Subtotal Excellent:

Maintenance:
Reading:
Social:
Relaxing:
Research/learning:
Walking:
Daydreaming:
–> Subtotal Good:

Semi-productive:
General-life:
–> Subtotal Okay:

Surfing/wasting time:
Transit/dead time:
–> Subtotal Bad:
——————————————-
ANALYSIS:
How’d the day go?

——————————————-
END OF DAY:
What are my key life goals? Spend 5 minutes on this.
Email in box, end of day:
Top project(s) I want to close:
Plan tomorrow:
Make a request of my subconscious:
Time complete: