Event & Activity Categories
As mentioned in the Time Budgeting section, Lifeli makes you event and activity categories which work similar to financial budget categories when financial budgeting. The 10 event category budgets are as follows:
Best Practices
Work & Business
These activities generate value at work or income for your business. Discussing work over lunch, researching for a new project, and replying to emails are few examples.
Career Development
These activities help you acquire knowledge specifically for Work or/and Business. Taking a course or watching videos to learn a new skill for your job are few examples.
Personal Development
These activities enable you to learn something new not associated with Work or/and Business. Planning, learning how to bake, listening to an audiobook, personal accounting e.t.c.
Spiritual
This category is used for activities related to your religious or/and spiritual practices. Attending church or spiritual retreat, reading a religious text and meditation are few examples.
Fitness
This category is used for any exercise-related activity. Walking, running, swimming, biking, playing tennis, boxing, kayaking, e.t.c. Whatever sports you like. Aim to break a sweat.
Relationship
This category is used for activities spent with people or animals, solely for the purpose of bonding. Friends, family, significant other, kids or pets. Aim to build meaningful connections.
Self Care
This category is used as a kind of catch-all for anything in relation to relaxing, rejuvenating or just having fun. Grooming, vacations, doctor visits, spa treatment, and meals are few examples.
Sleep
This category is used for the ultimate form of recuperation. We can’t overemphasize the importance of sleep and naps when you need it. This is premium fuel for all other activities.
Errand
This category is used for tasks performed which are not related to any of the others but necessary for daily life. Cooking, cleaning, shopping, e.t.c. Work towards outsourcing these activities.
Travel
This category is used for getting from one point to another as long as it does not involve exercise. Exercise falls under Fitness. Rides in cars, ferries, trains, airplanes, scooters, e.t.c.
30 Min Increments
To get the most out of the app, we suggest that you block and track your activities in 30 min increments. By doing this, you get the benefit of optimizing all aspects of your life without the stress of macro managing yourself.
Tracking in 30 min increments means that you round up your activities to the nearest half an hour or hour (:30 or 1:00). As long as you spent 15+ min on an activity, you can track it as the 30 min segment. If you did two activities for 12 & 18mins, you track the 18mins activity as the 30 min segment.
Doing this allows you to accommodate the following:
- Lateness, which happens to the best of us for up to 15mins.
- Prep time, for example dressing up to go for a run.
- Transition time, switching from one task to another without stressing out.
- Distraction time, picking a call from a wrong number or 5 mins of Instagram.
- Break Time, a 15min break is suggested for every hour of work.
We thought about it all, 30 min increment works best. But if you ever need to track 15 min activities, the app allows you to do just that. You are Welcome 😁