21 days of time tracking with TimeTag: Day 21

Day 21 - After 21 days of goal tracking, I'm happy to report that my meditation goal is as sticky as ever -- I'm keeping to the 10 minutes a day, right between my coffee and my walk with my dog. It's been great -- I feel less like it's a decision I make, and more like it's an automatic action I take. That's the magic of a habit -- we do it without much thought, and without having to self-negotiate on whether or not we want to do it.

21 days of time tracking, goalsSamer AbousalbiJanuary 25, 2021habits, achieve your goals, goals, productivity tips and tricks, productivity hacking, goal hacking, timetag, timetag mac, timetag ios

21 days of time tracking with TimeTag: Day 8

Last week I was able to hit my meditation goal, but I missed my writing and my running goal. That's totally okay -- the fact that I was able to integrate one goal into my daily life and keep that on track is actually a huge win. It leads to today's lesson: it's okay to mess up or miss early on. That's no reason to quit or be frustrated, or say that it's not possible.

21 days of time tracking, goalsSamer AbousalbiJanuary 11, 2021habits, achieve your goals, goals, productivity tips and tricks, productivity hacking, goal hacking, timetag, timetag mac, timetag ios

21 days of time tracking with TimeTag: Day 3

I 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.

goals, productivity, time, 21 days of time trackingSamer AbousalbiJanuary 6, 2021timetag ios, time tracking, achieving your goals, achieve your goals, timetag macComment

21 days of time tracking with TimeTag: Day 2

My 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.

goals, productivity, time, 21 days of time trackingSamer AbousalbiJanuary 5, 2021timetag ios, time tracking, achieving your goals, achieve your goals, timetag macComment

21 days of time tracking with TimeTag: Day 1

Day 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.

goals, productivity, time, 21 days of time trackingSamer AbousalbiJanuary 4, 2021timetag ios, time tracking, achieving your goals, achieve your goals, timetag macComment

21 days of time tracking with TimeTag: Day 0

Time 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.

goals, productivity, time, 21 days of time trackingSamer AbousalbiJanuary 3, 2021timetag ios, time tracking, achieving your goals, achieve your goals, timetag macComment

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