3/22/2023 0 Comments Golden hour time management![]() “With this method, you’ll go about your day and activities as normal, and simply write down what time you change tasks and start something new,” explains Anderberg. Set a timer for every 15 minutes (at first, at least it can be longer as you’ve gotten into it), and take a quick second to jot down what you’ve been doing.” If you go this route, “you’ll write down your activity for a set chunk of time, say 9–9:15 am. The first tracking is using the time of day. Jeremy Anderberg writes that there are two necessary frameworks for tracking your time. Here’s the moment you’ve been waiting for, actually tracking your time. Some of the best available are RescueTime, Clockify, Toggl, or ATracker - and of course, Calendar. If you prefer to go digital, you may want to try out time tracking tools. Other options would be creating a spreadsheet (or this one from Chris Baily) or premade worksheets like the 168 Hours Timesheet. You could also use a notebook or index cards. You can honestly stay old school and use a pen and paper for this activity. The longer you follow your time, the more accurate of a picture you’ll have. Some suggest that you can get away with just tracking your time for a week. The first step you need to take is to determine when you want to start tracking your time and for how long. For example, instead of scheduling a meeting on Monday mornings, you do that on Friday afternoons when most of us aren’t as productive.īut what if you want to find out when you’re most productive? Well, here is a simple process that can help you figure this out. ![]() Hopefully, the data from Priceconomics can be of use. Priceconmics suspects that it “maybe because the early year is typically for setting goals, not completing them - and as we near year’s end, we’re struggling to get everything done.” You have to learn how to work smarter - not harder. “We only complete 7.2 percent of our yearly tasks in January,” The reason? “We complete far more tasks in the latter months - September (8.8 percent), October (9.5 percent), and November (9 percent) - than in the earlier months,” notes the post. “Tuesday (20.2%) is just behind - and after that task completion perfectly tapers off as the days progress toward the weekend.” Fridays are “nearly 20% less productive than Monday.” “The highest percentage of tasks (20.4%) are completed on everyone’s favorite day of the week: Monday,” Priceonomics reveals. ![]() However, the “percentage of tasks completed (9.7%) peaks at 11 am - just before the typical person takes lunch.” The data has shown that productivity takes a hit between 11 am and 1 pm, “and after 1 pm, productivity never quite returns to its peak.” The study shows that after 5 pm (typical finish time), work quickly tapers.” That timeframe is extremely specific, but they also found “that most people don’t really get going until 7 am (a typical start time). However, after analyzing 1.8 million projects and 28 million tasks gathered from Priceonomics customer Redbooth, says that the most productive time of year is at 11 am on a Monday in October. But, I also have also worked with people who are night owls, and forcing themselves to wake-up as early as I do would be counterproductive. Because of this, I’m more alert in the A.M. For example, I’m a morning person, and wake-up at 5:15 am every day. You likely already know when your most productive time is. The most productive hour, day, week, and month of the year. But, before we get there, we first need to identify when you’re actually the most productive. Instead, we should spend them on our most important and challenging tasks. ![]() Whether you call them your golden hours or peak productive work time, or biological prime times, these are when we have the most concentration and energy. ![]()
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