• How much time did I spend on important activities?

Before you can take control over the way you use time, you have to understand what you already are doing. A practical way to learn about your use of time is to keep a time log, a record of what activities you are doing hour by hour throughout the workday.
Figure 13.1 provides an example. Each half-hour during the day, write down what you did during the previous half-hour. Do not wait until the end of the day; this level of detail is too difficult to remember.