I was reading an article by Mark Bennington at Wall Street Journal HERE. It got me wanting to post this because I would love to state this opinion of mine a long time ago. Anyways, in a nutshell, this article summarized that by tracking on how you spent your time by keeping a time log and being honest with it, you would be able to understand if you are real that busy enough and what are you exactly spending time with. In a way, it stated also that we are not as busy as we expected to be due to most of the time we pay interest to our habits or hobbies that flew pass the time so fast instead of boring routine job.
I do agree with her that we are not as busy as we could think of, but hey, I oppose on what she thinks that a time log can solve this problem in spotting what do we really spend buying on. You know I always believe the quote ” Effective is doing the Right Things, Efficiency is doing the Things Right”. I think on that itself we will know on how effectiveness and efficiency gain us more time by doing things fast instead of clocking on how many hours we spend on a certain thing.
This goes to my argue, How are we certain on what are we spending our time on? This concept may apply decades ago, but the decade today is about the Internet. And yes most youths spend our time in front of the internet, and when information gets centralized, we do things simultaneously. You could be Facebooking, or assignment, or also doing your hobby on searching cooking classes, or chatting with your long distance friends, or doing your work! My point is simply the time management today simply does not fall into the category of personal or work time anymore.
It has become some kind of fusion. Thus the argue of today of healthy work and living lifestyle is not about restricting your staff’s private communication during working time and also doing their personal thing such as banking and other things during lunch hour that might take up extra time, but on the other hand, work has become from home, internet work, which has overlap family time at home too.
My take is that, to really know how we spend time, is to identify if what we are doing is directing to what we want to see, generally. “How you spend your time determine what you are” As long in the long run on reflecting on the values or thoughts we have when we spend our time, i think that could mean much better rather than clocking on how I spend the time, I think I would be spending more time trying to segment on how I spent my time in the end but not figuring how.
It’s just too vague for a time log at this decade of IT and also social media applications, somehow.
