Time Management Through Quantifying Self With Technology

Most folks are quite alarmed at being tracked, followed, and everything about their life being recorded. Their cell phones track them, their computers track them, and companies, governments, and even hackers collect the data. Indeed, they know more about people than those individuals know about themselves. Personal Privacy is thus, a myth. And yet, all this data that they have about people is perhaps much more useful to the person themselves.

In fact, a print out of your own data, such as what you ate, how much you slept, where you traveled too, is very important. What could you do with this information? Well, you could trim some pounds, save money, and save a lot of time. It's all about efficiency of motion and action. Okay so, let's discuss how some folks are already doing this, and how they are optimizing their lives in the process, thus, giving them the advantage over all of us.

There was an interesting blog post on The Technium Update on June 26, 2011 titled; "The Quntifiable Self" which was very interesting, and the article stated;

"400 people interested in serious self-tracking meet for the inaugural Quantified Self conference in May this year. Self-tracking means monitoring quantities like your weight, sleep, location, messages, genes, body chemistry, performance, productivity, or any other of a thousand metrics. Self-trackers arrived from all over the world to share and explore the 'whys and hows' of self-tracking. Self knowledge through numbers we call it."

Now then, this might be bothersome to you, but consider this; all this data is already available, you are already being tracked, and so why wouldn't you simply find out how you can harness all this information so you can become more efficient in your life? What I am saying to you is that all the tools now exist. So, if you could optimize your sleep exactly, you might be able to save 3 hours per week, and you wouldn't be more tired, just have more hours.

If you optimized your diet, you'd have more energy, and less extra weight to lug around, reduced stress and, fatigue, and you'd be healthier so you wouldn't get sick, saving more time, more productivity, and perhaps making more money and enjoying life more in the process. And just consider the new SmartGrid home energy usage systems - it can help you optimize your energy use, saving energy, and saving you money. Well, it's kind of like that, only this is all about you. See that point?