Comments on: 2023 Time Tracking Challenge Day 1: The first few hours… https://lauravanderkam.com/2023/01/2023-time-tracking-challenge-day-1-the-first-few-hours/ Writer, Author, Speaker Fri, 20 Jan 2023 20:12:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Laura Vanderkam https://lauravanderkam.com/2023/01/2023-time-tracking-challenge-day-1-the-first-few-hours/#comment-429006 Tue, 10 Jan 2023 14:54:32 +0000 https://lauravanderkam.com/?p=18929#comment-429006 In reply to LK.

@LK – yep, a lot of stuff is probably in the 5-8 range in life. We don’t do a lot of stuff we hate, but total bliss is hard to pull off on a Monday too. I think it’s more useful to figure out outliers – if something feels like a 9 vs. a 4 – that’s worth knowing.

]]> By: Dionne Merriott https://lauravanderkam.com/2023/01/2023-time-tracking-challenge-day-1-the-first-few-hours/#comment-429001 Tue, 10 Jan 2023 14:34:19 +0000 https://lauravanderkam.com/?p=18929#comment-429001 For the first day of my time-tracking challenge, we got to go meet our first granddaughter! Definitely not a typical day, but spent it just like I wanted to!

]]> By: LK https://lauravanderkam.com/2023/01/2023-time-tracking-challenge-day-1-the-first-few-hours/#comment-428932 Tue, 10 Jan 2023 02:57:39 +0000 https://lauravanderkam.com/?p=18929#comment-428932 I tracked! I did a run on the indoor gym after drop off while listening to Tranquility by Tuesday. I had to move tomorrow’s work to today, which makes me anxious, and I can see that things are taking longer than I predicted. I have also been rating my happiness next to each activity, recommend in the book Happier Hour, to figure out what makes me happy. (As a statistics professor, though, I’m not sure the data is really great. I keep wondering what a 7 really is, versus an 8, and it seems like there is a lot of “noise” in my data – like I could easily have put a 6 doing the exact same activity as I just wrote a 7 for. And really, the variation probably has more to do with my mood than the activity.)

]]> By: Cb https://lauravanderkam.com/2023/01/2023-time-tracking-challenge-day-1-the-first-few-hours/#comment-428853 Mon, 09 Jan 2023 20:04:41 +0000 https://lauravanderkam.com/?p=18929#comment-428853 Winding down here and managed to track all day. I’m trying to track a bit more details of my workday. I’m 40% research, 40% teaching, and 20% service, and it will be interesting to see how closely (or not) my actual hours align with how I’m supposed to be spending my time. I just labelled things R, T, and A. 2 hours outside and exercising on the school run (supplemented by forgetting my son’s bike helmet and having to cycle back for it).

When I took on my current job, I woke up at 4am everyday wondering if I was ruining our lives. I feel like I have a story in my head that I don’t spend enough time hands on as a fulltime working mom (with a heavy travel schedule) but today I did morning cuddles, an hour of kid/mom cycling, bedtime stories and cuddles, and a lovely chatty family dinner, so all good quality time. I’m off tomorrow with my son due to a school closure and he said “oh, you wanted some name time, thank you! You are a good mummy, aren’t you?” So clearly our lives are ruined, and my son will need years of therapy 🙂

]]> By: Laura Vanderkam https://lauravanderkam.com/2023/01/2023-time-tracking-challenge-day-1-the-first-few-hours/#comment-428849 Mon, 09 Jan 2023 19:56:46 +0000 https://lauravanderkam.com/?p=18929#comment-428849 In reply to Sevcan.

@Sevcan – oh, you are definitely not the only one! We just learn to live and keep moving forward amid the chaos.

]]> By: Sevcan https://lauravanderkam.com/2023/01/2023-time-tracking-challenge-day-1-the-first-few-hours/#comment-428848 Mon, 09 Jan 2023 19:54:37 +0000 https://lauravanderkam.com/?p=18929#comment-428848 Thanks for sharing your morning Laura. I was just thinking that my morning was chaotic today. (my 3 y.o. son is also sick, and I had to take him to the doctor instead of daycare). it feels good to see it’s not only me, and I’m not missing anything :).

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