Awareness of how I spend my time

Why is it I’m 38 and only now I have about a 20% grasp of how I spend my time?

I guess it began with a disjointed attention and environment that didnt allow me time to think. Or allow me to think of how I spend my time. Regardless of the reasons why I started that way, I’m slowly moving to being aware of how I spend 80% of my time.

Lessons Learned

Writing is the Gateway to Monitoring What I do. (as discussed in many other posts).
Tasks Failures are my greatest barrier right now. What happens is while I DO Plan, It has so many failures i’m having a negative feedback loop of planning. To manage and power through the failure – I need to be efficient and testing, experimenting, and keeping track of what works and what doesnt.
It also helps that I’m doing a lot of Studies: Project Management and Business Analysis.
The lesson is that To Plan requires SO MUCH Processing power I am overwhelmed. I dont have time to think through most of the Ideas and Prioritize. It takes TIME and continuous Practice for the skill of planning to be an Easy skill – falling into an established pattern where I have a conditioned Response – to how to approach the failure and the challenges.
Detail/Data Management. this is a skill that I acquire through writing, that when I flush my memory of current issues with Writing I am able to manage the Value of the Information and THoughts. Inside my Head I cannot grasp the Value of Information – on Paper using Analysis tools I am able to see the Distraction from the Important Information.
Writing > Detail Management. Detail Management is a set of Conditioned Responses to Data Overload.
Why Forecasting is a Secret Methodology: Because ever company is unique – because of the unique mix of individuals that created it and make it Their Method of Analysis, Validation, Problem Solving, and Adaptation comes from the Arbitrary Nature of Experience. Take this lesson and apply it to how we come up with our own Problem Solving system – the One that is Published is NOT CUTTING EDGE, but its better than MOST and is the foundation by which the BEST Problem Solving Systems evolved from.
That every Data Analysis system is FRONT LOADED in work. If you dont start to understand and analyze, or attempt to use your Data Analysis system then you can begin the awesome processes of Optimizing and Improving it. From GANTT charts on health, Using Spreadsheets to Track Expenses, Groceries, and Habits, etc… ALL THIS BEGINS WITH TRYING – then adapting to better methods.
That Cognitive LEAP is so huge – I think, even the smartest people cannot predict how their systems will evolve.

PREMORTEM Skill

From post Mortem, the PREMORTEM skill is used to examine how failure happened by Imagining the senario we failed or succeeded. Its one of those tools storytelling and our own statisticall biases come together to make a “Believable Story” of how something came about.

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