I put on my list to time track five times and I thought it might be interesting to do one of those weeks while we are in Noosa. We are away, but not on holiday as such, so there is still some normal rhythm to our days. Once again I used my trusty spreadsheet to produce some nifty pie charts so I can compare with my last foray into time tracking. This was last week 13th – 19th July. Our daughter was staying with us until Saturday and then E and K came and stayed.
This week I slept more and I was more sedentary. I had some naps last week and I went to bed earlier on Sunday because I got a migraine after dinner. We also did a lot more socialising around the table and puzzling. The apartment comes with a weekly clean as well so I have fewer household chores and no gardening.
Compared with last time I had more paid work because I have some special projects I’m working on, although I did work less last week than I have been doing because of our daughter staying with us. I had a miniscule amount of ministry time which would have been nil, if not for a report we had to put together for the quarterly ministry lead meeting. As expected I had less time on household chores and more personal time available.
Next is the breakdown of my active time. I’m not sure why there was more personal care time, possible due to needing more showers because I did exercise most mornings and we did go out one day for lunch so I blow dried my hair and put on makeup. I had a big increase in running, from 4% to 21%. I was sick for part of the week last time so I only did 1.6 hours of running and this week I am also a fair way into my marathon training and had 6 hours of running. There was obviously no walking of Riley, but most of that time was taken up with the active transport category. Strength training is similar and mobility is a bit less which is disappointing because I do want to get that up a bit, although I must admit I haven’t been making a massive effort to do so.
The biggest change was the social category 33%, up from 10% last time. This was largely due to having the kids staying with us, plus we had my parents over for dinner one night before they left for home and I rang my sister and had a long chat on Sunday. I count eating together, puzzling together and also walking to and from social outings in my social category. Prayer/church was down because I’m away from church. Running is up, while writing was down, I guess something needs to give.
Finally the reading category was heavily weighted to fiction. I had a loan that was going to end on Sunday night and it was a substantial read so I spent a lot of time reading the fiction and neglected my non-fiction. The reading adjacent category was me getting the highlights on a side-loaded library book synced to my Readwise account. I also had less online reading, sorry to my fellow bloggers out there. This explains why I now have 139 unread posts in my Reader. I might need to take the nuclear option soon and hit read all.
And one final extra breakdown of my time into indoor and outdoor time. For this I included my hours sleeping. 11% works out to 2.64 hours outside each day so exceeding my target of an average of 2 hours outside everyday. Although more is always better.
Are your weeks generally the same or do you does your focus necessarily fluctuate between different areas of life?
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