Tracking Your Time

Here's a question you've probably asked yourself many times: "Where did the time go?"

This week, you are about to find out where that time went as you will be keeping a time log for Assignment 5!

A time log can be used for all of the following:

Determine how you're spending your time.

• Identify time wasters.
• Become better at estimating how long a task will take you to complete.
• Identify how you'reprocrastinating.
• Make better use of your leisure time so you can start setting asidean hour a dayto achieve your dreams.
• Come up with strategies to make better use of your time.
• Measure the results of your efforts to become more productive.

The more details you write down, the more effective your time log will be. For example, don't just write down "working." Be more specific by writing down things such as the following:

Answering emails from customers;

Working on Project X;

Meeting with my boss;

Preparing for Monday's presentation;

Helping a colleague learn to use the new software; and so on.

Create Categories.Get a good overview of how you're spending your time by creating categories. Categories can include things such as the following:

Health and Wellness (HW)

Work (W)

Family (F)

Social (Friends and Community) (S)

Home Maintenance (HM)

Transportation (T)