Actually, I think the quotes from General George Patton really does touch directly on the issues that you're dealing with. Many times procrastination arises out of the desire to want to get everything perfect.
I myself I'm guilty of that. I refuse to move forward because I worry that I have not thoroughly covered every single base.. But what I have found is that it is often the case that I am just deluding myself. And what stands in the way is simply an uncomfortable feeling That you're missing something. If you look back and reflect, as you have already done, you see that your perfectionism is causing you to dwell too long on a particular project. So the quote from Patton is simply telling us that you reach a certain point where things are in pretty good shape and that it's time to move on to something else. Don't worry, you can always come back to it later on. Patent is not saying now now now, he is saying proceed if you have a good plan now. I use an app called forest Which works along the same lines as Pomodoro, except that it has a more compelling approach to punishing you if you get off track. On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 10:00 AM, J Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hmmm.... I'm not so sure. > > "Now! Now! Now!" sounds more like a recipe for stress than a recipe for > success. > > > > > On Friday, 2 October 2015 17:26:09 UTC+1, Majorbillion wrote: >> >> J: >> >> I have this quote on my monitor: >> >> Patton: “A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan >> executed at some indefinite time in the future.” >> >> Eddie >> >> On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 9:23 AM, J Smith <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> P.S. >>> To get clear you can add a Start Date and/or a Due Date easily enough >>> for a task, but I don't think you can do anything similar for a Context... >>> >>> >>> >>> On Friday, 2 October 2015 17:14:20 UTC+1, J Smith wrote: >>>> >>>> Hello >>>> >>>> I am working at home a lot and I have a problem with the way I am using >>>> MLO which is that I keep "ploughing too deeply". i.e. I am spending too >>>> long on tasks and being too perfectionist about things. Part of the problem >>>> is that I am also not jumping into different Contexts often enough. (In >>>> fact I often do not bother to add a context for things that must be done at >>>> the computer screen and this may not help) >>>> >>>> I rather feel that I should allocate block of time for each context. >>>> However I can see no obvious way to put this sort of thing into MLO. >>>> >>>> Do you have any hints / tricks that you use? >>>> >>>> e.g. I am toying with using a kitchen timer for this sort of thing... >>>> i.e. only allow a certain amount of time in one sitting for each context. >>>> >>>> J >>>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/500e516d-e7f8-4f9e-85c8-af4fce663cc3%40googlegroups.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/500e516d-e7f8-4f9e-85c8-af4fce663cc3%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MyLifeOrganized" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/784b468d-fddb-4d5f-852b-7b4148fe26a4%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/784b468d-fddb-4d5f-852b-7b4148fe26a4%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/CALBn8KoMh7wTsMrOPSZbR669w8p6zZ3BBm30E69NVsHUQRFn1Q%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
