E96 - Breaking the Cycle: Identifying Personal Time-Wasting Patterns

The very first step in breaking any cycle is awareness. You cannot fix what you cannot see, and most of us are genuinely blind to where our time is going. That is where the time log comes in. A time log is exactly what it sounds like — a written record of how you spend every hour of your day. Not a guess. Not a rough estimate. An actual record. And when most people start keeping one for the first time, they are shocked by what they find.

Here is how to do it. For the next seven da...