"From the last three lines of your post, I'm assuming you are applying the "better safe than sorry" mentality to life-rights over all of time. This addresses points 3) and 5) of my post on Wed 5/15, but does not address points 1),…"
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Hello dear Reader!
I must say that I think that you are rather awesome for reading this! (You probably tell to yourself that you are awesome all the time; but then remember this - you are extra awesome now!) Therefore I think I would do something nice for you.. I will actually share useful information that you can put in use after you read this. I often times don't take the time too write things like this, and when I do it used to end with just a few posts. I think my record is 3 posts in the same place. If I beat that then well heck! I have surpassed my own expectations of this. But I digress.
I want to share with you, something that literally rescued my time! You see, to be able to make credible goals about what you should spend your day doing, a great thing is data about exactly how you spend your time in front of the computer. And RescueTime let's you monitor in REAL time what you are doing. The great thing is also that it lets you grade different tasks from how distracting they are (like facebook, youtube etc.) or how productive they are. And I can only talk for myself, but it have been truly useful for me. I have ever purchased a year subscription, to get more detailed data, even if there is a great free version as well.
For me this has made me more aware of what I spend time doing, and of how much time I spend doing things. This way it gives me an edge to put up strategies to changes my habits and behaviors, in such a way that it ends up saving a lot of time for me. I hope this have been helpful; and if you think it have please let me know! Feedback of all different kinds is appreciated! I need your support too make more useful posts then what I ever have!
EDIT: A question that seam to be poping up is, how do I get the free version of the service? Just go to this page and choose RescueTime Lite, this option is free forever!
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Comment by Nathan Dewar on August 16, 2012 at 12:11am -
You sir are some kind of angel sent from above. I am in the process of getting my shit together and this will help nicely.
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Comment by Zacharie on August 16, 2012 at 12:33am -
Dear Nathan! Thank you for your feedback! It means alot! Make sure to tell me how it goes! Things like this use to have higher success rate, if you expect to talk about it with others later. Why not make a blogpost right now, pinning down the things you want support with.
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Comment by SparTom007 - Tom on August 16, 2012 at 1:43am -
I'mma check this RescueTime thing out and let you know what I think :D Thanks and welcome back I think :P
I like the sound of this thing, gonna need to be careful with time once I move lol, need to get a new part time job and I'm taking a bunch of online courses that are like 12-16 hours a week and also keep up with ipower my own website shit and also find time for fun and on top of all that keeping the gf happy when shes home from uni during weekends xD
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Comment by Zacharie on August 16, 2012 at 2:06am
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Dear Tom! Thank you for remembering me, it is nice to be back. And thanks for the feedback! Again this means alot, as it is very motivating and it shows that it is in fact time well spent. And yeah let me know how it goes, I am very curious! :-)
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Comment by The Shiznit on August 16, 2012 at 3:20am -
Some free alternatives can be found here:
http://alternativeto.net/software/rescuetime/
and here:
http://download.cnet.com/windows/project-management-software/
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Comment by Zacharie on August 16, 2012 at 3:23am
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Dear The Shiznit: Again just register at the site, it is actually free forever! No need to go to secondary sources to download, the client would be useless as the service itself is web-based. ;-)
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