The author, inspired by Annie Dillard's quote "How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives," decided to track every minute of their time for a month to understand where they were spending their time and make changes. They created eight categories: paid work, passion work, professional development, personal development, relationships, play, wellness, and support work, as well as two additional categories for distractions and maintenance. The author set up tools such as Toggl to track their time and analyzed the results after four weeks, discovering that they were spending too much time on "play" and "maintenance" and not enough time on important areas like work, development, relationships, and wellness. By tracking their time, the author gained a better understanding of where their time was going and made changes to prioritize their time more effectively, becoming more mindful of how they spent their minutes and appreciating the amount of time available in a day.