I tracked every minute of my time in January, here’s what I learned

After going through Bruno’s Time Mastery course, I realized that I didn’t know my 4 quadrants as well as I thought. (check it out here if you haven’t gone through it yet. It’s worth it!)

So in January I decided to take it a little more seriously. I used google calendar to track every single thing I did. Color coding each of the 5 categories made it super helpful to visualize. They were:

Health (exercise/sleeping)
Relationships (family/friends)
Growth/Business time
Chores
9-5

Before I reveal the % breakout for each, the reason why I wanted to do this was because I had AN IDEA of the time I was spending in all the areas, but I wanted to ACTUALLY know. Knowledge is power

It also helped me stay accountable by blocking ‘growth work’ and family time in advance so I could plan around those and stick to a schedule the best I could.

I try to keep my days as similar as possible with the only changes coming on the weekends when my family time replaces the 9-5 time. Same wake up every day, same bedtime everyday (unless I get sleepy lol).

Since I’m a numbers nerd, here is the breakdown of each of the categories by percentage for January:

Health 36%
Relationships 25%
Growth/Business 14%
Chores 5%
9-5 20%

How do you think yours would shake out?

It makes sense to me that Health and Relationships is over half, I feel like I’m good there.

The Growth/Business is frustrating looking at it from this perspective, but it still comes out to about 25 hours/week. I don’t think I can physically do more right now without disrupting the Health or Relationships.

I don’t want to say the growth/business is the most important, but that’s the push I’ve been making recently. So I’m in a stage of finding better uses for this time, rather than more of it

I’d love to ‘offload’ the chores and 9-5 lol. The chores would probably free up more family time and the 9-5 would definitely free up more Growth/Business time.

These trades sound easy to make, but there would be other challenges that come with it. Bigger, newer challenges that I’m not ready to solve yet. But we can’t be ready for every challenge that comes our way.

That’s why it’s great to have communities like this in our back pocket so we can chat through the tough stuff to create the good times.

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