Happy Friday! If you’re tracking time as part of my September Reset project, I hope it is going well. I’m back at my desk after being up at 5:45 a.m. this morning to get ready, and get in an uber to the airport at 6:15. My flight was quick, so I landed in PHL at 9:30. Unfortunately, I landed in a completely different terminal than I departed from, and it was a bit of a hike back to my car. I left the airport around 10:00, and was home 10:45. I’ve been catching up on things ever since.
My time logs include all seven days of the week, so that means weekends too. If you are tracking for the first time, you may be wondering why you would track your weekend hours. Isn’t time tracking about becoming more productive? And aren’t weekends exempt from that? But I believe time tracking is about knowing where the time goes so we can use as many hours as possible for things that are meaningful and/or enjoyable. Sometimes that means working, but often it means enjoying our leisure and family time more. Knowing where the time goes lets us make choices that can bring even more pleasure to our lives.
So try to keep going. I think you’ll find it worthwhile. In the meantime, here is some of this week’s content.
Over at Best of Both Worlds, we talked about “Surprising things about our 40s” — this was a fun episode, so be sure to check it out. If you’d like to discuss topics related to Best of Both Worlds more in depth, please consider joining our Patreon community. We have such a fun time in the forum there, and in our monthly zoom meet-ups.
At Before Breakfast, I suggest one way to introduce something new: “Call it an experiment.” I suggest noting “If it can wait.” Sometimes things that keep getting bumped forward…don’t actually have to get done. For the interview episode, I was joined by the lovely Shira Gill, who is talking all things minimalism and managing life.
Over at Vanderhacks, my Substack newsletter, I write that “People are a good use of time.” I suggest we “Invite stories, not explanations” — there are good reasons not to begin many questions with the word “why.” Behind the paywall, I write that “Checklists lighten the mental load” and about “How to turn a bad mood around.”
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