A-Team Time Log Exercise - Instructions
A-Team Time Log Exercise - Instructions
This simple 3-day exercise will help you regain your control of time to maximize efficiency and live your best life.
1. Look at your calendar to find 3 consecutive days that seem to reflect what your daily life is like.
2. On day 1 in those 3 days, begin tracking each task, including phone sessions, breakfast, getting ready in the morning, YouTube binging, study sessions, etc. - anything that seems significant
Note: Be sure to track when you start and when you end *as they happen* to prevent forgetting/inaccuracies
3. For each task, note on a scale of 1-5 (5 being the best) how focused you felt you were. Add how you felt and any additional notes you think will be useful. For example, during the task "study", you can note that you kept daydreaming and that this took up about 1/5 of your time
4. At the end of the day, reflect on how efficient you felt on a scale of 1-5 (5 being the best) and other areas.
5. Repeat for days 2 and 3
6. After tracking day 3, answer the questions in the Takeaways tab!
7. To become more efficient, start applying one new tip at a time. My BEST time-management and efficient studying tips are linked in green below!
Tip 1: Share this worksheet with your accountability partners to do the 3-day tracking together!
Tip 2: Use a digital planner where tasks link to your classes + automated reminders: https://wamy.ck.page/products/planner
Feel free to print out these worksheets as well! Just remember that before doing so, clear the cells in column D that currently show 0:00:00
Note: You do not need to track every little thing like taking 1 minute to respond to a text message - you understand your life/goals most so do what's most helpful for you!
By default, there are 20 rows for your tasks. If you need more, just insert additional rows by right-clicking a row number on the left side and "Insert row"
My time-management tips: YouTube video: TIME-management: the SECRET to 4.0 GPA w/ 8 hr of sleep and a LIFE | Ft. my digital planner
How to study EFFICIENTLY: EFFICIENT studying: How to ACE everything in a FRACTION of the time
Link to blank copy of this time tracker to repeat and improve this exercise: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oRL1XHjgUenNPkRZ2Ud99gcf2_Q8nA5ClOuR0x3crCI/edit?usp=sharing
P.S. I hope that if you didn't know how to use spreadsheets, tracking with this tool was a bonus for you! Spreadsheets are super handy and I use them for many things!