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Today's tip is that as you are starting to track your time, figure out what you want to learn from your time tracking.

If you identify a few numbers that you particularly want to see, you can track in a way that makes sure you get them.

So lots of folks are tracking their time with me here in January. you can track in a way that makes sure you get them.

So lots of folks are tracking their time with me here in January as part of my annual

time tracking challenge.

I think it can be helpful in general to see where the 168 hours of the week go.

When we know where the time goes, we can make choices about what we would like to change

or celebrate. But it is even more useful to track time. If you have particular questions,

you want answered. People track in more or less detail in different categories. And so

knowing what you want to know will allow you to focus

more on these aspects. For instance, many people want the answers to big picture questions.

How many hours per week do you spend working? How much time do you spend with your kids? But within

these categories, you might also want to get more

granular. For instance, within the category of work, you might want to know how much time you spend on

email, or in meetings, versus other things. Perhaps at home you want to know how much one-on-one time

you have with each kid, or how much time you spend on caregiving tasks,

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