[HappyDude]

Hey guys!

So check it out.

I've been using the GTD method for almost 4 months now and love it. Has completely turned me around.

When finding OF almost 2 months ago I saw my productivity sky rocket.

The current situation with me right now is wanting to see myself gain momentum in whatever projects I wish to take. Mainly for the past few weeks i've been thinking about seeing my productivity in terms of exercise.

In the same sense it feels great to click on that "Clean Up" button and see all the actions you've recently completed in OF, I feel that seeing I haven't been completely slacking off in terms of exercise and other projects; that would increase my productivity tenfold.

1. Running Times & Distances
2. Weight Lifting @ Gym Times & Weights
3. Reading: Times & Pages
4. Fast Food: Times & $$$ Spent
5. Internet Log Times
6. etc.

When I 1st began using OF my producitivty increased; personally I think cause I finally saw only my next actions in their appropiate context view.
But when I started seeing all those small next actions I did earlier today, yesterday and last week in OF, something clicked in my mind, something telling me that all these little action steps were simple & more importantly that I wasn't slacking off.

As David Allen said in GTD, "You gotta give yourself the win."
You gotta look back and see that you've been progressive and acknowledge you weren't just wasting away in front of the TV.

This is why I want to catalog for example my internet logged on times. I used to do nothing all day but waste time online. Then I still wasted time but scaled it down to a few hours a day, etc etc. I would love to be able to jot down how much time I wasted online on frivolous websites every day and bit by bit turn the trend around and lower my slack off times online. Also jotting down what times of the day it happens would help so that way I could be aware as these times approach.

In terms of exercise i'd like to write the times I jog and how much I jog, so that way I can increase my distances bit by bit. The same regard in terms of lifting weights at the gym.

This is all for the benefit of looking back at the progress (or lack of, i'll get to that) and get it to motivate you to strive forward.

For jotting down Fast Food purchases, I've currently being using Apple's Numbers app. However, never really being great using spreadsheets+excel, i've had ok success. But I get the feeling Numbers might be a great app to help me achieve these goals seeing as i'm sure i'd be able to add current graphs showing trends and reoccuring patterns.

I eat a lot of fast food. A lot. Used to spend close to $200 a month on just fast food. So what I did was save all the receipts of everytime i ate at a fast food joint and added them to Numbers. On average i'd spend about $120 on fast food. This was good considering that once I started saving the receipts I went to $120, from $180. The past 2 months I've spent about $30-$60 a month on fast food, but the evidence that seeing these trends help.

My Conclusion:
What I'm saying here is that i've barely touched the Numbers app, not knowing my way in dark too well (yet), but i'm sure that implementing the act of cataloging whatever you want will help me & you see these trends in our lives... only having used Numbers for a bit I'll go ahead and suggest that app...

...But I feel the power of this thread lies in the tips and suggestions you guys have regarding this idea and its potential.

[needles27]

As far as logging your computer/internet try: http://www.slifelabs.com/

Keeps track of everything you do on your computer, and you can set goals which trigger growl notifications.

[HappyDude]

Originally Posted by needles27

As far as logging your computer/internet try: http://www.slifelabs.com/

Keeps track of everything you do on your computer, and you can set goals which trigger growl notifications.

It looks interesting, I may try it out.

As for the other stuff, I may just stick w/ Numbers and see how that pans out.

[physicistjedi]

My solutions:

Running:
http://www.runkeeper.com

Exercise and food:
http://www.dailyburn.com

Body metrics:
Excel

Internet and computer habits:
http://www.rescuetime.com

Music listening:
http://www.last.fm

Looking for better ways and suggestions all the time.
pj

[HappyDude]

Originally Posted by physicistjedi

My solutions:

Running:
http://www.runkeeper.com

Exercise and food:
http://www.dailyburn.com

Body metrics:
Excel

Internet and computer habits:
http://www.rescuetime.com

Music listening:
http://www.last.fm

Looking for better ways and suggestions all the time.
pj

I'm really impressed by Daily Burn, I signed up for an account immediately.

How often do you use this site? Do you highly recommend this site?

Thanks by the way!

[physicistjedi]

It think it is the best one out there, especially with the upcoming iPhone app.

Hello,


It sounds interesting and very motivating thanks for sharing it and keep up the spirit buddy. :)



Regards,
sarah_9


Personal Training Certification

[jhein]

Hi,

for the iPhone I found an App that lets you track almost anything on a daily bases. It is called "Daily Tracker" and it is not focused on a special area, because you can define all the values you would like to track. I use it to track my daily diet and weight, weekly body measurements and blood pressure, exercises with weights and repetitions and other stuff like health problems or the way I feel every day.

The great thing is that you can track all those different values in one app, instead having to install multiple apps for different aspects of your life. It generates statistics and you can export all the data in csv format or mail it to somebody.

Regards,
Julian

[HappyDude]

You know, when I created this thread more than 3 months ago It was because I was having the most difficult time attempting to set up some sort of porject regarding eating healthier and exercising more.

With exercising, it came easier to create a "Health" folder holding all these types of projects...such as "lifting weights at the gym" "at home" "jogging" "Yoga" etc.

However 3 months later and im still having a real hard time trying to focus on my eating habits. For the life of me I just cant see how that project would look like. Having to eat daily multiple times with a snack time or two in there each day seems like a lot to keep track of, iono, i just dont know.

Julian, the app you suggested would perhaps be the closest i'm currently capable of thinking of utilizing in terms of keeping track of my eating habits... The only health apps I have on my iTouch are the "100 push-ups" program and the 200 sit-ups and 200 squats apps which i've been doing before I got the iPod Touch almost a month ago. Also enjoy using iFitness to see how to properly execute exercises but as for tracking what I do...i just dont know.

So far i've used the livestrong.com app which i just hated the interface, use and feel of it...so have switched to DailyBurn's app which is okay, but im sure you need a WiFi connection to use.

If you Julian highly recommended that app you mentioned i'll go ahead and try it out. The main thing is I need to be able to track my eating, calories (preferably without having to put them in myself) cause I just cant think of any other way to focus on my eating in a GTD+OF+Productivity manner. I need to feel some sort of control on this cause if not i'm just gonna continue eating unhealthy.

[physicistjedi]

When I don't want to track everything but focus on calories in an easy way, I prepare snacks of X calories on my kitchen scale during the weekend and eat them Y times everyday and try to keep every meal about Z calories (as I have a sense of calories after all those tracing now). This way I get 3*Z+Y*X calories everyday. Just arrange the numbers according to your needs and schedule.