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Doing Time – STP044


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Episode 44 -  Can you rely on time? Can you manage it? What were you doing with yours 3 days ago at 3:15pm? Wanna find out? Then have a listen!

Some of the USEFUL stuff in there is:

* Time management doesn't work
* What does 'time' even mean?
* Could we change how we measure time - some people already have
* Time seems to stretch depending on what you are doing
* Psychology Today explain why the years pass faster as you get older
* Terry - come one, give him a chance! At least his facts are real

* The earth doesn't revolve every 24 hours
* The French tried to 'decimalise' time - TWICE!
* In the Soviet Union they changed the length of the week 3 times in the 20th Century


* Changing your approach to what fills your day could work two ways:

* Getting more done in the same time
* Doing the same amount in less time


* Which one do you want? They're both good for different reasons
* Lunchtime - how do you do yours?
* Why measuring 'performance' just based on how many hours someone works may not be useful
* Is it time to find out what fills your 168 hours?
* E-mails take up more than we think according to - Forbes.com
* That's just e-mails, where are your other 'time-thieves'?

Track your time - it's VERY revealing

* The Art of Manliness wrote - this article on the subject
* You can do it different ways - one way is with apps
* Here is an article on time tracking apps you can look at
* Here's another one - because we like to give you choice!
* The one we used was - Toggl
* Consider how you're going to track your time with an app, there are 2 key ways:

* Every time you start a new task, log it
* Checking in each 15/30 minutes and logging what you've been doing


* The great thing about Toggl is that you can select categories and tags
* My categories were:

* Work - reactive actions (meetings, resolving stuff etc)
* Work - proactive actions (planning, developing, strategy)
* Routines
* Travel
* Calls
* Self development
* Eating
* Family time
* Relaxing
* Meditating
* Messing about
* Podcast production


* Instead of apps, try tracking time using a paper-based method
* There's loads around - but we made one for you
* Download it either from this image here...


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