Giving yourself time off/away from working is just as important as the work itself. I spent many years working for a company, and have spent many years working for myself or as a contractor/freelancer. What I noticed is when I worked for a company that had a vacation policy, and worked traditionally from Monday to Friday, is that my time off was time off.
Read MoreWhen you're working from home, it's easy to be distracted -- there are so many things that are within reach that can pull you away for minutes, hours, maybe even days. It's easy to think: I'll put on a Netflix show real quick, and watch only one episode. Then that episode ends in a cliffhanger, and you think: well, the next one is autoplaying, so okay I'll watch one more but that's it. Then it keeps going. Before you know it, that one episode of 29 minutes has turned into a 3 or 4 hour binge fest, and you're thinking: wow, where did my day go? Did I actually get anything I wanted done?
Read MoreI started touching on this on day 2 but one of the real secrets to achieving a goal is to turn it into a habit. The secret of a habit is that you already have so many -- you literally don't think about them (consciously) because your brain has them on a kind of autopilot.
Read MoreMy writing and meditating habits have been going well -- I did an 11 minute meditation yesterday, and spent 21 minutes writing. I haven't yet been able to go for a run (or more honestly, I haven't yet set aside the time to go running).
I want to discuss a strategy that has helped me in the past with habits like running -- which I need to employ myself, quickly, if I am to hit my weekly goal.
Read MoreDay 1! I guess today is technically day two and yesterday was really day 1, but let's pretend that I count like an engineer or software developer, and still call today day 1.
Anyway. It went great -- I setup my TimeTag Goals as discussed. I made good progress on my Meditation goal (I actually did 20 minutes yesterday instead of only 10), and I wrote quite a bit. I did not run yesterday (I like to have Sundays as rest days), but I'll make sure to do that today.
Read MoreTime tracking is an interesting practice. For some, it's required. For others, it's optional but really helpful. For others, it's a chore.
This year, I decided I want to perform an experiment. I'm going to begin to diligently track my time every day for 21 days, and log my journey here on Capparsa's blog — specifically tracking against some goals I have for myself.
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