I just told myself for the fifth time this year that I will never again allow myself to put off entering hours until the day before pre bill. Yet here I am not putting my hours in today because I'm so tired from putting 30 days worth in last night

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Start by entering it every weekend. Baby steps.

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Genuinely curious: how do you remember what you did? Do you write it down somewhere and then enter it at the end of the month or go entirely from a memory? I can’t even remember what I did last week!

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I just go through my emails, calendar, download history, and phone log for each day. Very rare that I do some task without any record at all of it

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We should be friends because... same.

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