I tend to use week/month/year goals as a way of dealing with projects or tasks I don't want to assign to a specific due date, but I do want to keep on the radar appropriately. When I do my weekly and monthly reviews, I skim through the projects and tasks that have been assigned to these "event horizon" sorts of dates and see if any of them should be promoted to the next level (i.e., month goal to week goal, or year goal to month or week goal), or if I should assign a specific date, or star it/bump urgency to make sure that it actually gets attention in the next appropriate time period. If something has a specific date assigned to it and doesn't have a downgraded urgency, then I tend to think it already has a goal designation that is more specific than week/month/year. If it has downgraded urgency then it's generally more of a "nice to have" than something that needs a goal designation, anyhow. Or maybe you could think of the downgraded task or project as a member of "Stretch Goals" - i.e., the things you do if you want that high performance rating at work :P
On Tuesday, December 11, 2012 4:47:57 PM UTC-8, Lisa S wrote: > 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 I kind of did what you were talking about, but it got out of date very 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] <javascript:>>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] <javascript:> >> [mailto:[email protected] <javascript:>] 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]<javascript:> >> . >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] <javascript:>. >> 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]<javascript:> >> . >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized?hl=en. >> >> > > > -- > Lisa > > ------------------------------ > Lisa Stroyan, mailto: [email protected] <javascript:> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. 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