I truly started keeping track of certain data at the beginning of January, 2018. I'd had a few little odds and ends prior to that. Some journals, a few scattered workout plans on phone apps, data in my calendar, a Samsung GearFit that had lost the ability to hold any battery and had been abandoned long ago. At the beginning of the year, I decided to start, in earnest, collecting data about my life. I chose, to start, a few broad categories that I wanted to focus on: daily time tracking, sleep, and steps. This is the narrative version of that data collection:





January, 2018 (Month 1)





I used aTimeLogger(Android) to log my time. In January of 2018, I have recorded 32 meals eaten. I’m bad at this point in time about remembering to record when I get food on the go or take a quick break at work to eat lunch. More accurate statistics are that I have worked out twice, done housework 39 times, read a book 14 times, gone grocery shopping 5 times, played video games 20 times, taken a shower 12 times and a bath 4 times. I have made 21 cups of tea, socialized with people other than my immediate family 6 times, pumped gas 4 times, and taken care of my animals 27 times.















In terms of time spent on certain activities:







I spent 136:49 on some kind of paid work. I expect that number to increase for February because I was on vacation the first week of the year.





I spent 43:57 traveling from one place to another. Most of that time was spent driving for work but it also included a 3 1/2 hour plane ride at the beginning of the year coming back from vacation.





I spent right around 39 hours watching Netflix or Hulu. I didn’t watch anything on Amazon Prime this month.





I played 29:42 playing video games, mostly on PC or Xbox One. I also spent 47:59 relaxing, which is basically my catch-all time keeping category for when I’m sitting around, not really doing anything specific, maybe playing on my phone, maybe the TV’s on in the background, but nothing’s really going on.





I spent 14 hours reading and around 35 hours listening to Audible (mostly while traveling) and completed 7 books so far this year.





I’ve averaged right around 7 hours of sleep a night, with 9 hours and 6 minutes on January 21st being the longest and 3 hours and 8 minutes on January 29th being the shortest.





I averaged 5,719 steps a day for the 27 days of the month that I recorded my steps. My highest number of steps was on January 9th with 9,967 steps.





I also spent around 8 hours studying for a social work licensure exam I have in February, and 3:30 listening to podcasts, most of those social work related.





Out of the whole month, only 11 hours and 26 minutes were not tracked.



Above is the data collected from the Android app aTimeLogger. My data is a little skewed this month because I included the category "With Ashlee" to note time that I spent with my wife, and included any time that we were together, even if we were just passively sitting and watching TV or even sleeping together. I won't be including that next month because it's not super informative when I'm interested in actual interaction and not just existing in the same space.

Also, my sleep data is very inaccurate. I was originally going back and inputting my sleep data into my app but I thought that was redundant since my Fitbit app already tracks my sleep for me. So, next month, I won't be including any sleep in my time tracking. I will, however, continue tracking the time that I spend in bed because, as an insomniac, sleep time and "in bed" time don't always match up well.





Goals for February







