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What is the proper way to enter time, money or mileage into 1DayLater?

If you are using 1DayLater.com to track your business activities, you might have noticed that values can be entered as either: positive (+ve) or negative (-ve).

Although our positive and negative conventions will seem straightforward to accountants and bookkeepers, I thought an informative blog would be useful for everyone else!

Logging Time

• (+ve) - used for everyday time activities
• (-ve) - used for amendments

Logging Mileage

• (+ve) - used for everyday mileage entries
• (-ve) - used for amendments

Logging Money

• (+ve) - used for income
• (-ve) - used for expenses

If you’re still confused or would like to give us feedback on this or any of our other features, please get in touch using our online feedback form!

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Time Management Tips - no. 6 - are you working towards your goals?

You can work as hard as you want, and as efficiently, but if it’s not bringing you any closer to your goals then it’s time to take stock.

“If you’re going nowhere, you’re guaranteed to get there”

Effective time tracking can help you to understand if your working habits are congruent with your goals. Here is a simple method you can use to make sure you’re working ‘clever’ rather than just working hard.

Step 1-Record your daily activities

Using 1DayLater, record your daily activities over a week - or better still; over a month.

Step 2-Rank your activities in decending order

Rank your activities in descending order, with the most time-hungry tasks at the top of the list.

Step 3-Compare with your ideal case

Write our a separate list of projects and tasks in the order they should be in. Compare this to the real case; showing what you actually spent time on. Is the weight of each task mirrored by your actual ‘real life’ activities. If the ‘actual’ and the ‘ideal’ don’t mesh, then why not? Are you spending too much time on low priority tasks?

Try to look of your ‘bigger picture’ and see which tasks will benefit you in the long term. If these are being neglected it’s likely you’re getting sidetracked by low importance, urgent tasks (see our earlier article on this).

Improve

Now, armed with your newfound knowledge you can start improving the way that you work on a daily basis…

Thinking about ‘Time’ rather than ‘Money’ influences your happiness!

Hello chaps, I came across a recent study carried out by ‘The Association for Psychological Science’ and wanted to share it with our lovely 1DayLater users.

Researchers at TAPS have discovered something interesting; if we actively think in terms of our time, rather than in terms of money - we are motivated to change our habits and spend more time socialising with friends and family - behaviours that are associated with greater happiness!

^ take this cup of coffee for example, he’s already doing it!

This idea might seem really simple, but I think it’s pretty profound. By shifting our perceptions from money-focus to time-focus we can actually make ourselves happier!

I know my friends at HappiestHQ will enjoy this notion. If you get the chance, sign up to their Beta list and keep an eye out for their happyness app this year - http://happie.st/

So yes; there’s never been a better reason to start tracking your time and improving that all-important work-life balance. And before you go, take one last look at the Happy Coffee Cup; you know you want to :)