Luc: I use goals a lot, but not in the way they were apparently intended. Most of my new tasks start out in my inbox. Some get typed in there directly, others come via RTE, MLO-by-email, or drag from Outlook. As they are landing in my inbox, I make a first-level cut at priority, and assign everything that really needs to be addressed promptly to be a weekly goal, which gets it that very noticeable red exclamation point. In my quarterly reviews, I look at uncompleted goal tasks. Some were not as important as I thought at first and I take away the goal status. Others remain important but not quite important enough for me to commit resources to right today. They move to monthly goals. Remaining uncompleted weekly goal tasks represent something that really needs to get done and I try to do them right away.
Inside of the daily process I am using Urgency, Importance, and dates to get the right tasks to the top of the to-do list each day. The Goals thing is kind of a safety net to keep things that matter from getting lost. So I really don't care how you rename the goals so long as there are at least two levels, and it does not use up too much developer time to do whatever you need. -Dwight -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Luc Poitras Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 4:00 PM To: My Life Organized Subject: [MLO] A simple idea about goals! You tell me! For me, weekly, monthly and yearly (goals) does not resonate. Would it be more appropriate to categorize goals within these? This week, This month, or This year! And I know we had discussions about goals before in this forum, but here I go anyways! Example: "Plan the Christmas Holiday". I decided that "Plan the Christmas Holiday" is no more a project of mine, but is instead a goal. The reason I changed it to a goal is because there is a lot of projects underneath it: -Put lights in trees ouside; - buy and decorate christmas tree; - Decorate the center of dining table; Buy gifts; - prepare christmas food, etc. So! Every single project here is grouped under "Plan the Christmas Holiday" NOW, on this december 11th, if I had to choose between "This week; This month; This year", this goal would go, at this date, in "This month". ...and when we get to, let's say, the 19th of december, I will switch it to "This week"...And on december the 26th, it will go in "This year" goal... So, in other words here, "Plan the Christmas Holiday" is more of a "This month" goal, than a "monthly" goal, wouldn't you say? You tell me if I'm in the "You say tomato, I say tomato" stuff here...I've had more than my share of "Getting too much into details" before! Thanks! Luc And by the way, Happy Holidays! Envoyé de mon iPhone -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized?hl=en.
