Per Wendy's recommendation, I'm reading TURNING PRO by Steven Pressfield. Okay. I get why you recommended it. Totally. Thank you. He mentions the age-old line about 10,000 hours of investment before the work becomes worthy.
Wendy has mentioned tracking hours worked, and I know many others who do the same. I've considered it before, but nothing's really handy when I sit down to work in a variety of environments.
Yesterday, I conducted a search on my iPhone App Store and found a highly rated gem called Timesheeter Free, and it looks like it will do what I want it to do.
For grins, I figured out what my time is worth per hour, based upon my income and a 24 hour clock (no overtime for me). It's a completely fictitious thing, but it may have some value at some point. I can enter a variety of projects and tasks, then, when I'm ready to begin working, I tap the app, tap the time clock icon, select the project and task (or add one), click the green arrow to start the clock, and begin working. If I take a break, I tap pause, then tap the green arrow when I begin again. Tap the red dot to stop. I'm sure I'll forget at various points, but it claims to be exportable. And, since I seem to respond to these types of self-imposed tracking systems in a generally positive way, maybe it will result in me working on more productive things than I have been to date.
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I need to get back to tracking my time, words, or pages, it's just so hard to carve out space for them. Thanks for the App idea - I'll look into it! {{hugs}}
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