5/20/2023 0 Comments Focus booster vs rescue timeSo I adjusted the goal to be 2 hours/day between Monday-Friday 6am-8pm. Since I take Saturday and Sunday off, that was messing with my average. But it turns out Rescue Time was set to average my goal of 2 hours of writing across a 24/7 schedule. Unfortunately, after my first week, I didn’t hit my goal. This is, for me, my most important thing every day. I wanted to try and have 2 hours focused just on writing itself. I feel like all the things which fall into my top 3 categories would easily be accomplished in 2 hours and then some. I changed my first goal to be 2 hours spent on writing each day. Less than 2 hours spent on all of your most-distracting activities combined.More than 2 hours spent daily on your first-listed, most productive activity.The two goals Rescue time starts you with are: Once your Rescue Time profile is created, you’ll have some default preferences set up for you. This way, when I return to my Mac after taking a lunch break, reading break, or going for a run, the Rescue Time app will prompt me to ask what I was doing while I was away. I also asked Rescue Time to prompt me for time spent away from my computer. Then I put (a) Reference & Learning, (b) Design & Composition, and (c) Business as my top three most productive activities. I put (a) Social Networking, (b) News & Opinion, and (c) Shopping as my top three most distracting activities. Rescue Time asks you what your top three most distracting activities are and what your top three most productive activities are. Once your computer is connected, you create your profile. Then you download and install the app to your Mac (they’ve a PC version as well), and then you register the app with your online account. You start by signing up on their website. It’s ideal for folks who spend most of their time working from a computer. In a nut, Rescue Time is an online service that tracks and categorizes how you spend your time. Its insight and data can help you make better decisions about what you do with your day. They say hindsight is 20/20, and the Rescue Time service is a way to see how you’re actually spending your time. In the past 8 weeks, I’ve logged more than 400 hours of my time using Rescue Time. Regarding (2) and (3): There’s an online service called Rescue Time that I think is pretty awesome. Heck, I’m building an entire course to help you be more focused and do more meaningful work (and then some). Regarding (1): There are a lot of resources available to help you improve how you spend your time. Awareness of how you tend to spend your time.Protip: There are four ways to help yourself avoid squandering time: “Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that’s the stuff life’s made of.”
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