Hahaha I do almost the exact things you mention because I have the same problem. So by definition I’m not the person to give advice!
But I will share my approach: 1. I use the review feature to ensure I don’t monkey with task parameters too often. 2. I do allocate blocks of time to everything: 5m, 10m, 15m, 30m, 1 hour. (actually more) 3. I agree that you can’t block time. I’ve experimented with blocking off time, but a. It gets to unwieldy, and b. My fav book “Total Workday Control” (from memory), which someone in this group recommended, pointed out that when you block of chunks of time you don’t usually stick to it, and that blocks should be reserved for time that MUST be blocked off. 4. To limit my big changes, any changes I want to make in the technology (like create a new profile) gets scheduled into my organizer, at a certain rate, so that I’m not constantly tinkering. 5. If I want to tinker with a task, I often use flags to label it for later, when I review it. For example, if I want to do something daily instead of every two days, I’ll use a flag that I’ve called “do more often”. That way I don’t have to take the time to edit the task, I can just keep moving through my list. (I realize there’s the wisdom that if something takes a minute or less you should do it right now; hence, there’s no perfect answer). 6. For timers, check out the apps SequiTimer, Meditation Helper, or Talking Clock, and Stopwatch Pro, all for Android. I use them all from time to time. From: mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com [mailto:mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of J Smith Sent: Friday, October 2, 2015 12:14 To: MyLifeOrganized Subject: [MLO] How do I stop my bad habit of "ploughing too deeply" (i.e. too perfectionist)? 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 mylifeorganized+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com. 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/0eb3500e-b85f-4125-824f-6f87bf607c49%40googlegroups.com <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/0eb3500e-b85f-4125-824f-6f87bf607c49%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 mylifeorganized+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com. 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/014b01d101d6%245fdfb2e0%241f9f18a0%24%40yahoo.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
