Catalyst Castle

A week ago I posted about a project I am undertaking to log how I spend my hours throughout the week and make adjustments to be sure I'm leading a balanced life. The project continues. This past week I logged my time again, and here are some of the highlights of my results.

Here are the rankings for top activities:

1. Sleeping
2. RPG Preparation
3. Work
4. Movies/Shows
5. All Theocratic Activities Combined

Sleeping was still my biggest activity. No surprise there. I didn't work as much last week as the week before, so work slipped down to third place. What's most appalling is that my theocratic activities combined slipped down to fifth place, which is unacceptable.

Time spent on RPG prep shot up from 6 hours to 14 hours. A big reason for this is that I started a new RPG campaign with Gareth. Preparing for a new campaign always takes extra time. In future, however, I would like to spend no more time preparing for RPGs than I do playing them. We'll see how that goes.

Time spent on Movies/Shows rose from 8 hours to 12. I don't see that it's getting out of hand yet, but I do need to keep an eye on it, especially since it beat out theocratic activities.

Reading, on the other hand, dropped from 12 hours to 3. I didn't intentionally cut back on reading, I just fell behind.

Those, of course, are just highlight. I also spent quite a few hours on miscellaneous stuff. I still had 43.5 hours unaccounted for, which is only slightly less than last week. That tells me I could still manage my time better to be more productive.

I think my final observations for last weeks log are these: I need to increase my theocratic activities by spending more time on personal study, field service, and meeting preparation. I also need to be more efficient in my RPG prep, so that I spend less time preparing for games.