Track What Matters, But What?

I remember attending a talk about 10 years ago where this founder said that he tracked everything, from the calories to the duration of his exercise, because he read from a book, that what you tracked, will get better results. I don’t remember the book but I will get AI to find it for me. Anyways this guy looked fit and healthy, so I believed him.

Over the years, I have expended efforts to track my works or efforts spent on my work, trying to see whether they improved my results. Mind you, this is not tracking of goals and planning which I really believe is useful, but instead the minutes or seconds spent on a task. Normally workplace nowadays requires staff to submit timesheets, so this is also required by my jobs, but my motivation still mainly lies on trying to track my time and see whether I improve or not.

I have tried a few time tracker but I find Toggl is the most useful and flexible. It however does not automatically link to what I am doing, unless I pay more and also risks the possibility of them spying on my computer. Also this doesn’t work in a work pc. I need to manually create a name for the task and log the time against it. Or I can setup some automation to trigger.

All this requires effort, which caused me in the end to think, is it worth it? Maybe I can just timeblock and focus on my work, instead of focusing on the minute details, pun intended. I haven’t have the answer to that, and I’ll ruminate and worry about it till the end of time.

Thanks for reading.