Comments on: 2018 Time-Tracking Challenge: Day 4 https://lauravanderkam.com/2018/01/2018-time-tracking-challenge-day-4/ Writer, Author, Speaker Tue, 17 Apr 2018 13:56:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Molly Beck https://lauravanderkam.com/2018/01/2018-time-tracking-challenge-day-4/#comment-36521 Sun, 14 Jan 2018 02:41:51 +0000 http://lauravanderkam.staging.wpengine.com/?p=7024#comment-36521 So exciting – congrats about the 2019 book!!! Can’t wait to read, whatever is it 🙂

]]> By: lauravanderkam https://lauravanderkam.com/2018/01/2018-time-tracking-challenge-day-4/#comment-36520 Fri, 12 Jan 2018 16:41:14 +0000 http://lauravanderkam.staging.wpengine.com/?p=7024#comment-36520 In reply to Morana.

@Morana- I’m in the third bird category, though I might lean a bit more to lark. It’s hard to know – because young children are involved, and so I’m not sure what I’d do if they weren’t a part of my life. I think my actual preferred schedule is to get up on time and work through the morning, take the afternoon off, then work through the evening. But this is not terribly convenient for anything else in life.
You could do the equivalent of a split shift by working from, say, 5-7, then taking time to deal with family, then working a normal workday 9-5 too. It’s the same thing.

]]> By: lauravanderkam https://lauravanderkam.com/2018/01/2018-time-tracking-challenge-day-4/#comment-36519 Fri, 12 Jan 2018 16:38:35 +0000 http://lauravanderkam.staging.wpengine.com/?p=7024#comment-36519 In reply to Connie C.

@Connie – thanks! I’m very excited about the project.

]]> By: lauravanderkam https://lauravanderkam.com/2018/01/2018-time-tracking-challenge-day-4/#comment-36518 Fri, 12 Jan 2018 16:38:20 +0000 http://lauravanderkam.staging.wpengine.com/?p=7024#comment-36518 In reply to Deepak.

@Deepak- good for you! Sometimes just knowing there’s a time for it can help with mustering the energy for something. Good luck with the rest of the week!

]]> By: Deepak https://lauravanderkam.com/2018/01/2018-time-tracking-challenge-day-4/#comment-36517 Fri, 12 Jan 2018 16:13:19 +0000 http://lauravanderkam.staging.wpengine.com/?p=7024#comment-36517 Quite a heavy day. Despite time going waste, thanks to you, I ended up translating six pages between 2.30 and 5 pm at state central library and planned the rest for tomorrow. Learning the rope. Thanks. Hope to meet my challenges and complete pending works.

]]> By: Connie C https://lauravanderkam.com/2018/01/2018-time-tracking-challenge-day-4/#comment-36516 Fri, 12 Jan 2018 14:45:58 +0000 http://lauravanderkam.staging.wpengine.com/?p=7024#comment-36516 Congrats!

]]> By: Morana https://lauravanderkam.com/2018/01/2018-time-tracking-challenge-day-4/#comment-36515 Fri, 12 Jan 2018 14:23:21 +0000 http://lauravanderkam.staging.wpengine.com/?p=7024#comment-36515 I just started Daniel Pink’s “When” on Thursday so I’m only about half way through, but it’s a quick and an engaging read. I’d love to hear your thoughts about it, I hope you’ll do a review.
Sometime in 2016 I consulted with you about adjustments in my schedule to find more time and my concern with adding a “second shift” in the evening was that it seriously threw off my sleep cycle and the next day. According to Daniel Pink, I’m not a “third bird” like most people but squarely in the “lark” territory, which totally explains that problem and informs where I can find more time.
What ended up happening with schedule change is that I changed my primary job, something I’ve done about four times since reading “168 hours” and “All the Money in the World” and slowly tweaking how I spend the hours in my life. The books truly changed my life. I’m keeping a very simplified time log right now, and I hope to do it for the whole year as I implement some more changes. So far the week was very productive and I’m anticipating the second half to be more fun and relaxing.

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