Tracking what I did throughout my whole week, a half-hour at a time: results and insights

Hello! It's been a while since my last post. Life is very full and busy. 

Some quick tidbits: I did a time audit for the last week, where I tracked what I did in 30 minute increments. Though I actually got a bit more granular, as I often do a lot of little things each hour. I guess that's one of the insights that came from doing that: left to my own devices, I do lots of useful but bite-sized things. When I'm at work  (at my practicum site. It looks a lot simpler. hour chunks of seeing clients. very simple. I wonder if it might be useful to set aside larger chunks when I'm not at work, to really move forward on some bigger, important projects.

Other insight: I use my time pretty well. Not perfect, but there were only a few chunks during the week where I was clearly doing something I'd rather not be. Often times it happens from me doing good things, but just doing them for too long. I guess it's a nice pat on the back. Also it tell me I need to take more breaks in the middle of things to check in and make sure it's still a good idea to keep working on them.

So: larger chunks of single things, but also breaks in the middle, to re-align with my internal compass.

Also, some of the few time wastes occured when I was a) emotionally upset, or b) watching productivity videos. Ironic, that watching productivity video's are some of my least productive times.

This was a general issue I noticed, I didn't have many clear cut "just stop doing x" things. Almost everything was "well, that's not really a bad thing to do, just maybe not the best use of your time here." or even, "this might be a great use of your time, but it might be a very poor use of your time. You won't really know until later on when you see the fruits of your labor."

Overall, it have me a few specific insights, but also some self-confidence. I'm doing pretty good. Not terrible, for sure.

Oh, one final insight: it takes me a while to actually get to bed, from the time I stop doing stuff. A long wind-down time, I'd call it. So, I really have to stop working pretty early, like 8:30, if I want to go to bed really early. And yes, it's already about 9:15pm as I write this.

One other thing that has been really helpful, is taking a moment throughout the day, to pause, breath, get quiet, and reconnect to source, then ask what I should be doing and how I should be doing it. This really gives me the course correction I need to feel pretty good about how I spend my day.

I've got plenty more blogs to catch up on, so I'll leave it at that for now, but I just want to add that I'm continuing to love my internship/practicum. I chose a good site, a good supervisor, and I'm becoming more and more confident, a good profession for me. I'm currently taking career counseling as my final academic course, and it's making me think about my journey to here, which has been a long and winding one, and how I hope I can help some other people shortcut that journey a bit, and what a gift it is to find work that suits you.

OK, good night, and have a good week. 

First day of School, First day of work.

It is already January 12th! What to say. It's a short post because there's lots to do. Tomorrow is my first day 'at the office' so to speak, in m practicum. excited, maybe a bit nervous, not sure I'll get everything done to prepare, in time, though most of that preparation is not necessary, just the 'ol "over-prepare before the first day" kind of thing. And today was my first day of classes for this semester. Career development. I guess we'll see how good I did with my own career choice this time, over the next few months. But maybe I'll start to get a feel for it, sooner than that. I'll let you know ;o-)

Parents are in town, it's nice to see them. It's so different, having parents while in middle age, rather than having parents as a kid. Trippy to think of myself as not a kid anymore, even after all these years. I still feel young, like there is so much to do and learn and discover. Though my body is not feeling as young :D

Maybe I will leave it there, and keep it nice and quick. I've got a HIPPA training to complete and a weekly review to do some more on, and it's already 6pm! I didn't squander the day though, I've been working hard and with focus, on things that are important. Can't really ask for much more, except to be doing that with a spiritual constant-integrated-awareness and Bhagavad-Gita-style dedication of the fruits of action.