{"id":5582,"date":"2012-01-01T10:43:20","date_gmt":"2012-01-01T02:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/?p=5582"},"modified":"2012-01-01T10:43:20","modified_gmt":"2012-01-01T02:43:20","slug":"how-i-spent-my-time-in-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2012\/01\/01\/how-i-spent-my-time-in-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"How I spent my time in 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week I audited how I spent my active hours (approx. 9am-7pm) in 2011.<\/p>\n

I experienced some fairly major life changes throughout the year, and the report I put together is definitely more characteristic of the last 6 months (when I had settled into a routine) rather than the entire year.<\/p>\n

Here’s a diagram illustrating my activities:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>And here are some of my observations and thoughts:<\/p>\n

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  1. Only 23% of my time is directly generating income. <\/strong>Hopefully this will change next year as ventures come to fruition.<\/li>\n
  2. Half my normal work time is non-billable.<\/strong>I spend as much time on tasks such as administration as I do on contract work.<\/li>\n
  3. My weekends and holidays are not my own!<\/strong> That 25% Personal time should be closer to 30%. (To be fair, this is probably my own fault.)<\/li>\n
  4. I spend a lot of time on Let’s Make Games Inc<\/strong>. An unsustainable amount really, but we’re becoming much more efficient.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    No real surprises I suppose. The audit was a lot more detailed (down to individual projects), but this high-level review is probably the most important.<\/p>\n

    Overall, I’m rather happy with how I spent my time. I feel like 2011 was about laying a lot of foundations to be built upon in future. Many of those foundations are relationships, and I’ll be depending on a lot of people to help take Let’s Make Games<\/a>, Hungry Sky<\/a>, and various ventures forward together with me.<\/p>\n

    It’s very fulfilling to be working with people I believe in, in pursuit of projects I’m passionate about, and I’m glad that I put in the time to get things started.<\/p>\n

    My goals for this year are to:<\/p>\n

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    1. Increase Personal time to around 34%<\/strong>. This should come naturally with the imminent arrival of my first child. \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n
    2. Reduce Let’s Make Games Inc. time to around 13%<\/strong>. We’re not setting up anymore, so this should be possible!<\/li>\n
    3. Reduce non-billable hours to around 15%<\/strong>. That’ll make it around 35% of my normal work time, rather than 50%.<\/li>\n
    4. Start making money from some of these ventures<\/strong>. This isn’t directly time related, but it will help with time justification!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      So that was 2011 in pie chart and bullet point form. I’ll be posting some photos from the year as well… which may be more interesting for most people. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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