A few months ago I shared some of the paper Emergent Task Timer forms I used before I wrote BubbleTimer. These were printed from David Seah's PDF and had been tailored a bit with scissors and a copy machine to better fit my needs.

In that post I promised to share what BubbleTimer looked like in the early days. Here is installment #1 of that promise. The earliest recorded history of BubbleTimer (source control checkin) is from April 20th, 2008. At this point I was already using BubbleTimer on a daily basis, as limited as it was:

Here are some of the things that occur to me when I look at the old version:

• Like David's paper forms, you couldn't mark a full 24 hours.
• At this point the system supported just 1 user and there was no login.
• I couldn't yet page between days (I had to edit the web address manually).
• I couldn't yet add, change, or delete activities and goals (I had to edit the database manually).
• A lot of functionality was missing: printing, exporting, sharing, charts, the chime, range clicking, multi-tasking, planning bubbles.
• No penciled in bubbles (not even the idea for them yet actually).
• "Exercise" was spelled right (BubbleTimer launched with a default activity called "Excercise").
• Not enough Carolina Blue!

Yet despite all of it's limitations, BubbleTimer helped me build BubbleTimer. I set a goal to spend time on it every day, and little by little, BubbleTimer was built.

I hope seeing some of BubbleTimer's history is interesting, but more than that, I hope it inspires you to keep making time for your goals. No matter how modest or gand they may be, they'll never get achieved unless you invest some of your time into them.

15 minutes? An hour? How much time doesn't matter. What does matter is that you carve a little time from all the other activities in your life that don't matter as much as your goals and dreams. When you look back in a few months on what you were able to accomplish with just a little time each day, you'll be amazed. I guarantee it.