Your calendar shows your priorities

It’s the empirical record of what you truly value. 

How often does it match what you claim you value?

Let’s do two exercises. The simpler one first.

Go through your calendar over the last eight weeks. Or check out the last 100 commitments you made and fulfilled. What do they all have in common? Can you put them into buckets? Do those buckets align with your values and goals?

Whatever the first exercise reveals is what you have prioritized over the past months.

Here is the second exercise. For the next four weeks, track everything you do in 15-minute cycles and write it down. It doesn’t have to make any sense. 

Just do, observe, and record.

Even when you do nothing within a 15-minute period, write it as such. 

At the end of the fourth week, you can review the data you have collected and sort that into buckets based your recent reality versus your aspirational goals.

Check how different it may be from the first one.

We can’t change how we had spent our time in the past, but we can be conscious of how we are spending the next 15 minutes - and watch that accumulate.