Actually, though I usually forget and call them "Weekly" etc,in the app they are actually labeled Week, Month, Year.
I don't use them as either "This Week" or "Weekly" but to mean "closer to a week out from now than a month out", what I call a "running week", kind of a goal for that time horizon. I think the labels work well for any of the three. Then when I create a task that recurs, I use the date to move it out later in the year, and it comes back at it's previous goal setting. I kind of did what you were talking about, but it got out of date very fast. Instead I now use a Star to mean "consider for today". But none of these use models is required/ preferred by MLO. On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 2:37 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > -- Lisa ------------------------------ Lisa Stroyan, mailto: [email protected] <[email protected]> -- 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.
