Comments on: Be the CEO of Your Life: Using Resource Allocation To Become the Man You Want to Be

By: Robert

Robert — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 14:03:42 +0000

I think all this really comes down to discipline. The latest gadget or technological flavor-of-the-month is wonderful, but without personal self-discipline, it’s for naught. Prioritizing what’s most important–such as creative, spiritual, and intellectual pursuits–is more important than tight compartmentalization of time. It’s hard to make the time to do those kinds of activities because they are the cognitively most challenging ones in our day, but they offer the biggest rewards.

By: kamal

kamal — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 22:34:32 +0000

Timing is everything, Most of them are not monitoring our time. We are not using time productively and that is the cause of most of the work problems. I downloaded software from rescuetime.com, Thank you very much.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 17:29:23 +0000

Interesting article. (Also read the Momento Mori article in conjunction with this one)
I just have to say this to younger readers:
When I was in college (1986-89) we had no cable and not internet. I spent a lot of time reading and talking and drinking coffee. We spoke to each other and got to know each other,
Try to do the same thing. I have nothing against technology – but remeber it can isolate you more than you think and take up more time than it is worth.
Also – shut off the cell a few hours a day and ditch the headphones. Look around, Talk to people. Read a book that is not assigned by a teacher, take a walk, do something that does not require batteries.
You may like what happens.

By: Angel

Angel — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 20:45:41 +0000

To Teddy,

There should be a clock icon right next to your link bar (to the right of the bar), near the top right corner of your browser. It should be active on default. When you click on it, it will show you the activities.

Angel

By: Teddy

Teddy — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 12:11:31 +0000

Help! I didn’t think I was so technologically illiterate, but perhaps I am… I added the Time Tracker extension to Chrome several weeks ago. It shows that it is active. But I can’t figure out how to see my results. How do I find these?

By: Stephen

Stephen — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 17:33:49 +0000

Mint is good, but I couldn’t use it when I moved to the UK.
However, I just found a website called Money Dashboard that works just the same, for any UK readers out there!

By: Native Son

Native Son — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 14:12:45 +0000

The usual, insightful article. However, I would posit a note of caution. While resource usage information is useful, too much detail in the metrics and the physical collection, measurement and analysis of the resource use data can become counterproductive. It’s easy to get enamored of a detailed set of metrics, and then spend your time measuring and analyzing something that’s not very important to your overall resource allocation problem.

By: Jim Collins

Jim Collins — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 16:51:47 +0000

Esteemed Brett, Kate, and Readers,

First, I want to point out that I am NOT the Jim Collins referenced in this article; I have learned from his writing.

I do periodically audit my time and it is useful to me. I would however, like to present these two caveats: First, importance is not proportionate to time spent. For example, I only spend about seven minutes a day brushing and flossing my teeth; but it is VERY important for clear reasons. Its importance lies in the fact that I do it without fail. Second, I cannot claim to be able to partition what roles are served by many things I do. My work is largely creative (scientist); I can’t tell you quite what’s going on when an hour goes into gazing into my aquarium or at the curve of my wife’s back while she is sleeping. I DO know that something happens that promotes both my happiness and my creative process.

Perhaps the time audit is most effective at finding our most outrageous wastes of time. I am not proud of everything I have found in my own audits.

Sincerely,

Another Jim Collins

By: Robyn

Robyn — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 15:24:34 +0000

You don’t need to use Mint if you use your bank’s online banking system. Most banks nowadays will show you in graphs and charts how you spend your money through the accounts you have with them. Granted you may have different accounts with different institutions, but if you are leary of handing over all those numbers, your bank already has some.

By: Alex T.H.

Alex T.H. — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 21:33:09 +0000

If you have an Android device, I recommend using Time Recording-TimeSheet App. It’s free and really easy to use. In addition, you can export the result to Excel spreadsheet.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dynamicg.timerecording