Patrick Mosher tracks "Productive Quality Output" (PQO) hours—work that directly advances his main goals—aiming for 30 per week. He also monitors health habits like daily protein intake (80g target) and Tai Chi, using a color-coded scorecard to spot where he's overcommitted or falling short.
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Tracking the day. So, um, again, on my planner, um, I track the day. Now, um, Imre, Paul, you know, in Accenture we had to track our time to get paid. Um, I left Accenture and the first 3 months I didn't do that. And then I started realizing, um, maybe, maybe it was a withdrawal symptom, I don't know, but I was just like, I, I I need to track my time. And I felt like it was going through the floorboards. So I started tracking my time again. And so I literally track my time on my planner and say what times I do stuff. At the end of the day, I put it, I pull it over to the, I don't know, I should show it to you. I pull it over to the other side, the other side. And over here I add up my, what Brendan Burchard calls productive quality output, PQO time. And the P/QO time is not infrastructure time, but it's time productive towards my, my main goal or something like that. And my goal, and I track this on my habits, is to have at least 30 hours of P/QO time a week. And so that helps me go like, okay. And sometimes, you know, some of the meetings we have, it's not P/QO time, folks. It's like an administrative thing. So I don't get to count. Time with my team as P/QO time. So I don't count the time with my planning, my review time. Those don't count as P/QO time. P/QO time is when I'm actually putting productive time towards an offer or campaign in my terms. In your terms, it'd be like, you know, Amber, in your terms, it's like, did we move a deliverable forward in this meeting or am I doing a progress meeting with my team? Those are two different kinds of meetings. And that's really helpful for me because then you start realizing where that admin burden is. You start going like, that didn't count. It's like, I need to have more of the ones that count and less of the ones that don't count. Is this making sense? So that's one thing. Who does the PTO? Who does that? Brendan Burchard. He talks about PTO time. Is that in a book that he's written that I could give to Paul quick. I can't think of anything. Look up— look, Brendan Burchard, B-U-R-C-H-A-R-D. And then I might look up productive quality output and PQO. He might have a video on that. Okay, got it. So good. Yeah. Um, cool. Uh, so that's tracking— that's tracking time. But tracking the day is also tracking habits. So I also track the habits that I have every day. So there's things right now that I just picked up this year is tracking the protein, protein I eat. How many grams of protein do I eat every day? I have a little box on my planner. This is how much protein. And my personal trainer is like, you need 80 grams a day. And I'm like, I'm really short of that. So, but I track Tai Chi, if I do that in the morning, the exercise I do, I have little tick marks and then I'm really nerdy, but I have a spreadsheet that tracks all that stuff. You don't have to do all that, but I have all of that. I've been doing that for since 2005, tracking my habits. But tracking time and tracking habits I think is important for rhythm to get your rhythm going. And I, I'm, I'm a scorecard guy, so I like red, yellow, greens. And so every year at the end of the year, I look at that and, and my scorecard and go like, That was a lot of red there. Is the red because I didn't do it? Is the red because I, I put the stretch too hard for myself and I need to back off? So, so those are some of the things I do there. Other things you guys do for tracking the day?
