Accountability Report September 2014

As of August, I have embarked on developing habits. My motivation is to live the life I want and love. In this I follow a plan developed by Leo Babauta in his blog Zen Habits and in his Sea Change program.

I've been following Leo's blog for many years and I finally decided to really start working systematically on my habits. In August, I started with a beginner's program, whereby each day I would just write down one Most Important Task for the day. This worked out quite nicely.

In September I was working on 3 habits simultaneously: early rising, meditation and diary writing. This also went quite fine. As a form of accountability, I was reporting my progress daily in my accountability group (all Russian speakers!) and on Facebook.

It’s time to make up a detailed summary. I can do this now, because my diary habit consisted of, among other things, logging how much time I was spending on various activities. So here we go:

Wake-up time (average): 05:24 hours
So on the average I was waking up between 5 and 5:30, which is good. For the next month, I’ll try to get the average below 5:15

Diary: 16:25 hours
On average this amounts to a bit more than 30 minutes per day. It looks like I spent one whole day (waking hours) on logging my activities and writing diary entries.

Meditation: 10:50
So, I meditated 20 minutes per day on average. My meditations consist of longer body scans (some 30 min) and shorter sitting meditations (5 to 20 minutes)

Some other stats:

Work (net time): 156:15
Family: 65:50
Sport: 25:47
- Biking: 281 km, 14 hours
- Running: 41 km, 5 hours
- Circuit training: 02:30
- Soccer: 7 hours
Transportation: 24:53
Social media: 21:08
Reading: 14:35
Friends: 12:55

It would be interesting to compare October’s results to those of September!