Found this article while surfing for an online clock to measure the amount of time I spend surfing each day (if anyone knows of a good one, send me the link). This got me to keep a log of when I begin and end tasks during the workday, to hopefully figure out how much time I'm wasting and how to be more productive. For instance, right now its noon and I'm blogging furing my lunch break. Ahem..
Was thinking about this because its spring break, and I've been looking forward to a quiet office with no kids around to get some work done. Yet every morning I come in and have no motivation at all to do these tedious, no real deadline tasks that have been piling up for months. I've been blaming students and others with more pressing needs, but maybe those really aren't the problem.
I still have a huge list of work to do, so, here goes. If I'm not too ashamed I'll post my day's activities.
Not sure this fits in to my ILLP that well, but whatever..
Posted by cmwillis at March 14, 2006 12:03 PM | TrackBackLooking forward to seeing how this turns out.
I do something similar with freshman students in seminar and they are always surprised about how many hours there actually are in a day.
I will be very interested in your "results."
Do you plan on doing some of the stuff in the article and then "testing" yourself again later?
Posted by: Jim at March 14, 2006 9:22 PM