With a new year just having started, it is high season for goal setting. I myself had no intention before the turn of the year to make any specific effort to set or revise goals. However, ever since the date switched over to 1/1/2021, it is like some dark gravity pulls me towards wanting to … Continue reading Some Thoughts on Goals
Category: productivity
The Merits of Slack
There are two meanings we generally assign to the word slack. First, we can understand it as a form of laziness or being negligent. If we say a company has slack safety procedures, we express that these are insufficient and that not enough attention and effort is dedicated to these. There are few merits in … Continue reading The Merits of Slack
Habit Tracking February
This post is to document the tracking of my habits for the month of February 2020 according to my habit tracking system. Here the overview of how I tracked against the habits I aimed to follow this month: Exercise and Stretching: Similarly to January, I was again able to exercise quite regularly. This included both … Continue reading Habit Tracking February
Habit Tracking January
I found the system for habit tracking I adopted in July last year overall quite insightful and useful for keeping me on track for simple habits. I thus decided to continue following this system in the new year. Due to travel around Christmas and New Years it took me a while to get back into … Continue reading Habit Tracking January
Habit Tracking November: Getting There
After having done very poorly on keeping to my habits in October, things have greatly improved in November. Here the overview for November: Habit Tracking November Some things to note: Exercise: While in October, I was only able to do exercise twice due to being injured, I exercised eleven times in November. For some time, … Continue reading Habit Tracking November: Getting There
Habit Tracking October: Injured and Distracted
Following my new system for tracking habits I have again kept track of various habits I try to follow. Here the overview for October. Habit Tracking October Overall, I didn't do very well, just like in September. Here my notes on the individual habits: Exercise and Stretching: Since I injured my rib at the end … Continue reading Habit Tracking October: Injured and Distracted
Habit Tracking September: Technological Enhancement
As written before, I have adopted a new system for tracking my habits. This primarily involves keeping track of whether or not I am getting to do certain activities in a day or not and recording this in a simple table. I have already reported my success in tracking my habits for July and August. … Continue reading Habit Tracking September: Technological Enhancement
Habit Tracking August: A Complete Failure
I have previously posted about a new system I have adopted for tracking my habits. In the month of July, I think I did reasonably well in sticking to the habits I have set out to adopt. My system is designed to make it easy to enter data (simply use a marker pen) and to … Continue reading Habit Tracking August: A Complete Failure
Simple Habit Tracking System
I have long been looking for a system that helps me stick to good habits. I used a time tracking application on my iPhone and also created various spreadsheets. Unfortunately the solutions I found so far turned out to be too cumbersome to enter data (spreadsheets) or too difficult to run reports on (time tracking … Continue reading Simple Habit Tracking System