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Mar 21, 2019, 10:59 AM
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Member Since: Aug 2013
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Ah, warmup, living as a series of questions and answers. First upon awakening: what's urgent to do today? When will I get to it?
I get up... do I dress now or later? Etc. Poke about a little, look into the morning light at the view.
And so on. One key Q: when does this workday start? Today I set it for 9, some days it's way earlier, others later or not at all. Starting the workday means my personal meanderings stop and I attend to stuff involving clients or other people. I won't response or even read too deeply into email until after I've begun something meaningful for the workday stuff.
When working for clients I need to keep track of my time. The lawyer/novelist Scott Turow has an interesting piece on billable hours. He doesn't like them but also doesn't suggest what might replace them.
I got interested myself when considering the ethics of how much, or whether at all, to bill any of the hours a project haunts my life. A quarter hour of a walk mulling issues and possible next moves. Ten minutes sprinkled throughout a day as I do other stuff reflecting on the best way to make slides about the status and next steps in the work.
I'd used Clockify, a freemium time tracker until yesterday. To actually send an invoice on stationary required downloading its data in a spreadsheet and about 10 minutes of shifting columns, resorting the dates, and patching the result into my word doc as a table & changing date formats. I'm returning to directly putting my daily time totals in an open invoice. With two clients, 10 minutes a month each, I'm reclaiming 2 hours a year. Two days a month I can linger till 9:10 before ...
getting to work,
Revu2
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