• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Rocking Your Path with Kat Sturtz

Building a Life and Solo Business You Love

  • Home
  • About
    • Contact
  • Blog
  • Meet With Kat
  • Fast Action Fridays
  • Community
  • MEMBERS
You are here: Home / Archives for time tracking

time tracking

No Fooling the Clock: Making It Over the Hump – Part 2

By Kat Sturtz 2 Comments

No Fooling Clock Part 2 post image

Missed Part 1? Click here to read it.

So, as I alluded to in Part 1, Monday and Tuesday (days 1 and 2) were meh in terms of rocking this 5 day I Dare You to Track challenge. No light bulb moments. No down and dirty despair. Not much of anything except bit of annoyance at having to give focused activity a useful name and remembering to start and and stop the dang timer … which I admit I sometimes forgot to do or just ignored doing for certain activities.

Then Came Wednesday full of surprise and discoveries

On Wednesday I decided if I was going to get any benefit from this challenge — and, frankly, why would I bother continuing if there wasn’t? — something needed to change. Early in the day I decided to check out more fully a different online time tracking app called Clockify that many of my fellow challengers, including host Kelly McCausey, were extolling the virtues of.

There is a robust free version forever version I had actually signed up for earlier in the week but only played with the browser version a few times, which I liked a whole lot better than Toggl but still triggered my time-tracking annoyance level.

The Game Changing Moment

Then I discovered Clockify’s desktop version. Holy cow! Suddenly I’m falling in love with this free little bundle of time-management app. I found it so intuitively easy to use that my prior annoyance at starting and stopping for each focused activity became … dare I say it? … fun!

More importantly, what I started noticing were behaviors about my use of time, plus ways to better estimate how long certain tasks took me to do. And where I actually was … and wasn’t … spending focused time on. Ouch!

[Read more…] about No Fooling the Clock: Making It Over the Hump – Part 2

2 Comments

No Fooling the Clock: What Happened When I Took on the I Dare You To Track Challenge – Part 1

By Kat Sturtz 8 Comments

Blog post image for No Fooling the Clock

It all started when challenge master Kelly McCausey, from Love People & Make Money, invited us to read Gay Hendricks’ book, The Big Leap, which is all about how we often settle for living our lives in zones other than our Zone of Genius. In other words, how we limit ourselves, sometimes unconsciously, sometimes not.

Then we were to track how we were using our time for a minimum of five straight work days. What would we discover about our habits? Did we really know what we did in a day? How long certain tasks took to complete? How long we spent hanging out on social media sites like Facebook?

Were we consciously spending time engaged in our Zone of Genius activities? More importantly, if we weren’t, why not?

I got this. Piece of Cake.

Now I had already read The Big Leap numerous times. In fact, borrowed it from the library so often that I finally bought my own copy. I frequently recommend and even refer to that book in many of my workshops.

[Read more…] about No Fooling the Clock: What Happened When I Took on the I Dare You To Track Challenge – Part 1

8 Comments

Primary Sidebar

Let’s Connect

Follow Us on FacebookFollow Us on TwitterFollow Us on LinkedInFollow Us on PinterestFollow Us on InstagramFollow Us on YouTubeFollow Us on RSS

Recent Posts

  • Building Your Digital Team to Maximize Your Skillset with guest Brook Borup
  • How to Grow Your Business and Self-Confidence with What You Wear with guest Scarlett De Bease
  • How to Create and Launch Your First Course Fast with guest Melody Johnson
  • The Holy Trinity of Website Design Success with guest Kurt Scholle
  • Finding Your Divine Rhythm with guest Dori Staehle

Legal Stuff

Privacy   |  Disclaimer  | Credits  | Contact

Kat Sturtz 56 Vibes Services
PO Box 147 |  Pigeon MI 48755 USA
Office: 989.545.5351

Music on Fast Action Fridays recordings by JewelBeat. Used with permission.

  • Home
  • About
  • Blog
  • Meet With Kat
  • Fast Action Fridays
  • Community
  • MEMBERS

Copyright © 2007–2022 • 56 Vibes Services • | All Rights Reserved