Hi, John. You should Google "the Pomodoro technique" -Dwight Mlo betazoid on Android sgn2
On Oct 2, 2015, 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] ><javascript:>> >> 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] <javascript:>. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >>> <javascript:>. >>> 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/830d041a-a627-4569-9684-6e45d8d6f473%40dwightarthur.us. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
