Are You Getting Closer to Attaining Your Dream?

Would you know if you were?

Niall Leah
4 min readFeb 2, 2022
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I asked two questions already, and the article hasn’t even begun! Okay, let me save the questions till the end.

My weekly ritual.

There was something on my mind yesterday as I completed the same ritual, I complete every Monday.

I opened the notebook on my phone and moved the hours I’ve logged doing various activities such as writing, reading, exercising, or working on Coursera into a longer-term Excel sheet named “Studio hour log.”

The numbers are logged under weekly dates that stretch from almost two years ago and onwards into the distant future.

I then sat ruminating as I do every week, either in pride or frustration, depending on what the numbers say to me.

Why on earth do I do this? I’ll tell you.

Almost two years ago, I read a book called The Effective Executive. In the book, the well-known Peter Drucker emphasizes the importance of time management in being an effective person.

One piece of advice that really resonated with me was to actively track your time.

So that’s exactly what I started to do.

Collecting hours.

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Niall Leah

An ex-pat from the UK living in Chengdu, China. I satisfy my endless curiosity about the incredible journey of humanity by reading, traveling, and writing.