Protecting Your Time

Tracking your time is absolutely necessary if you are someone who likes to do too many things. If you like to read books over the weekend, spend time with family, watch a movie, catch up with friends, and still get in a decent workout, then you need to learn how to allocate your time. This may sound like a bit of an overstretch, but it isn’t. A single phone call spanning an hour can disrupt the entire chain of events for you. A casual message can pull you back into work, taking away a couple of hours from your day. If this happens a few times, you lose track of the project you were working on, which eventually leads to frustration over the things that pulled you away from your schedule. When it happens too frequently, you begin to understand why productivity gurus recommend putting everything on a calendar. The point isn’t just to know when to start, but also when to stop. When you allocate a dedicated block of time to each activity, you don’t have to worry about pushing other things…