This touches on something I've been grappling with. How does one measure/quantify effort? From personal experience, keeping track of hours spent on a project isn't ideal as it encourages inefficiency.<p>One of the things with limited success is writing down a tally every time I push myself.<p>Do an extra set of crunches? Tally.
Read through two extra research papers? Tally.<p>Does anybody else have suggestions for quantifying effort?