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Some Reflections After a Month of Tracking My Own Online Activity

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Re: Some Reflections After a Month of Tracking My Own Online Activity

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meaningless

grind , when and how you want

grind harder, when you are behind the 8 ball

pay attention to your periferal vision, it's telling you stuff, same with first thoughts in the morning, they are useualy actionable but always do the self care stuff first schedules are great, if you have a lot of good things that you must maintain, but will eat you if you are trying to build from scratch or...if you are the anvil,bear if you are the hammer,strike

Re: Some Reflections After a Month of Tracking My Own Online Activity

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

May I ask what you are using to track your time? Late edit: Especially offline time tracking.

Sure, I use ATracker ( https://atracker.pro/ ) They have phone apps for both iOS and Android which work offline. Their iOS app has a "companion" on the Watch too, so you can quickly switch activities on your wrist. I think without this I wouldnt have the patience to even track bathroom time (another thing that I vastly overestimated before I saw the numbers). I´m still hovering between writing my own tracking system,…

Thanks a lot for this comprehensive answer. I have a Garmin watch, maybe there is an app for it too.

As a developer, the balance between using a readymade solution or implementing is always a bit tipped on the DIY side.

Re: Some Reflections After a Month of Tracking My Own Online Activity

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I‘ve been doing sth similar by tracking my time for the last 3 weeks and change. I havent done the full analysis yet but it‘s already clear that how I think I spend my time is completely different from how I actually spend it. Perception/„feeling“ vs physical reality. The gap is huge. Trivial example, I was convinced that the „time toll“ i have to pay around training was very high. Like I was spending an hour or more…

> how I think I spend my time is completely different from how I actually spend it.

Experiencing self vs Remembering self.

After Daniel Kanheman gave a ted talk on this, I deliberately try to prioritise my experiencing self.

Re: Some Reflections After a Month of Tracking My Own Online Activity

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meaningless grind , when and how you want grind harder, when you are behind the 8 ball pay attention to your periferal vision, it's telling you stuff, same with first thoughts in the morning, they are useualy actionable but always do the self care stuff first schedules are great, if you have a lot of good things that you must maintain, but will eat you if you are trying to build from scratch or...if you are the anvil…

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Re: Some Reflections After a Month of Tracking My Own Online Activity

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meaningless grind , when and how you want grind harder, when you are behind the 8 ball pay attention to your periferal vision, it's telling you stuff, same with first thoughts in the morning, they are useualy actionable but always do the self care stuff first schedules are great, if you have a lot of good things that you must maintain, but will eat you if you are trying to build from scratch or...if you are the anvil…

No, that's not meaningless, I've tracked my time and turned out I've spent much more time than I thought on one website that only made me angry, I've blocked it and saved myself hour a day and don't miss the website at all. So yeah, from my experience tracking can be very useful and meaningful.

Re: Some Reflections After a Month of Tracking My Own Online Activity

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post #18

meaningless grind , when and how you want grind harder, when you are behind the 8 ball pay attention to your periferal vision, it's telling you stuff, same with first thoughts in the morning, they are useualy actionable but always do the self care stuff first schedules are great, if you have a lot of good things that you must maintain, but will eat you if you are trying to build from scratch or...if you are the anvil…

No, that's not meaningless, I've tracked my time and turned out I've spent much more time than I thought on one website that only made me angry, I've blocked it and saved myself hour a day and don't miss the website at all. So yeah, from my experience tracking can be very useful and meaningful.

efficiency is for machines if your grinding when you have to, then it makes no difference what when where, and how much you put into unwinding anger is good, if it's not disfunctional, and directed at actual bad things that effect you now, anger is your signal to, grind, right through the objectionable thing, if its remote like the web page, then any amount of effort is waste, and self harm so grind, or luxurate in the knowledge that, whew! no more grind power left just now timing is for refining your thing, and streamlineing, but if you got no thing grind it's meaningless to optimise, treading water, especialy when there is a beach resort that you can see and hear I would reverse the whole thing and say that if you were to time your very best moments of work, or creativity, you will find them to be shockingly brief, and remembering the specific conditions that led to those moments, is the thing to focus on and foster. baring that grind
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