I have preset number of ‘domain’ projects. It is incredibly simple and serves the purpose of tracking time in relation to projects really well and it does it extremely fast so there is no friction between me and the software. Toggl is genuinely one of the best pieces of software that exists there for time tracking. I use three tools to track and manage my time. However the other challenge we get is how to accurately measure this time? This is a fun challenge and I am quite happy to say that I have solved it for my myself. An art that pays very high dividends if you do it right. Learning how much time to allocate and more importantly to which projects to allocate this time is an art. So the only thing I can do to allocate and manage my projects is time. There is no finish line to ‘learning’ or ‘books’ and yet they are projects of mine that I do. I can’t for example just write down these projects and not write down what time I want to spend on them because a project like ‘learning’ is endless. Writing down this time is very important as this is the most important currency that I have. And I have projects I am currently working on with how much time I want to spend on them written down beside each one. I have projects I want to build and work on separated into appropriate categories. It’s structure is fairly simple but very powerful and clear. Here is a screenshot of how my ‘projects’ mind map looks currently: For example ‘learning’ and ‘books that I want to read’ are two projects that I love doing and allocate quite a lot of my time towards but they are still projects and since they are projects, I have to manage them smartly and allocate the correct time for these projects given the context of what I want to achieve and do. Projects is the root mind map of all that I do and everything stems from it in my world. In there I outline the projects that I want to work on and complete. A mind map named projects that I can very quickly open with just a single keystroke. Since I am a big fan of mind maps, I have a personal mind map just for that. You often lack the perspective and understanding in seeing how what you are learning is used to solve some really interesting problems in the world.įor myself, I have adopted a very serious mind set switch to project based learning. In university, you are exposed to a lot of information, but very often like in high school, you lack context. You try to consume information with no goal in sight of how you will use it. I find it very inefficient, trying to learn things, ‘for the sake of learning’. And often this purpose for me is a project. The biggest and perhaps most important lesson I have learned thus far in my degree and life, is to have a purpose with whatever I am trying to do. You may learn something now but realize only a year or two from now, the domain and the problem in which you can use this knowledge you were once exposed to. There is indeed a lot of information out there and not all of what you learn is immediately actionable. The purpose is to learn with a goal of applying this knowledge in the future or ideally now. For example, the purpose of my undergraduate degree is to be exposed to a lot of material and knowledge about a subject I am interested in. One of the things I have observed, is that purpose and direction in which I am going really matters. It’s interesting to see how your thinking process evolves with time.
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