To conquer stress, track your time
Many of us suffer from a sense that we cannot get everything done in a day. We just don't have enough time, we think. The truth is, many of us have plenty of time, more spare hours than professionals had in previous decades. Why do we feel so stressed, then? We're not aware the time we have, argues Celeste Headlee. When it comes to time and stress, knowledge is power. When we track our hours, we can then take better control over how we spend our days. And that sense of control can help us feel less overwhelmed, Headlee writes.
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After I’ve read a few books by Laura Vanderkam, I did exactly that. I got ATracker app and tracked all of my time, up to 5 min intervals, for about two months. I’ve discovered that most of my time went to sleep and work. The other areas of possibility were family and social time, commute as well as social media. I’ve cut my social media time to less than an hour a week (obviously I’m not cutting my family time). Also, this exercise made me realize that I work too much, so the next step was figuring out how to work smarter and not harder. I was successful there too. Since it’s pandemic and I’m working from home, commute is not an issue. Now I have more time to dedicate to what matters to me - self development, creating my online course and helping others