What should you do now ? Part 2

I have still been facing this question for a long time now, even after the first post I wrote.

I have new insights to this problem.

First of all lets be clear that its not really cool to not have a good answer to this question.

Why?

Because if you're not clear about what you should do next, you're left in an environment that wants you to be its puppet, small requests from people around, a notification on your phone, everything is made to take your time and to make you work for helping it grow. 

When you say yes to a small request, then yes to the email that just popped in or that notification from social media, you are saying no to your dreams. You are saying no to working on your goals and helping yourself.


Without a plan for your time - other things take it all.


Ok so what is the solution?

To help me stay aware and track what I spend my time on,  I have built a telegram bot that helps me keep track of my time. It talks to my ManicTime server, (a time tracking and timesheeting App), and uses the notifications to help me stay focused on my goals instead of other notifications winning the competion for my time.

Everyday I look back at what I spent my time on, I check what top activities took most of my time and what went well and what did not go so well that day.

I then add the answers to my lists that I keep handy at all times.

Then when I catch myself asking myself what should I do now? I read my lists 

- I try to repeat the good things that happened.

- And I try to fix the issues of thinsg that did not go so well in the past, I try to make systems or adustments to prevent bad stuff from happening again.



So I advise you to do the same, if you are also looking to improve your time investments.

Whenever you catch yourself asking yourself    "what should I do now?"

Go over your past and try to repeat what went well 

and try to make systems or adjustments to fix what did not go so well.


- Until next time.

Lakshay ;)

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