Thanks Dwight, I have heard a bit about GTD, and about other planning methodologies the one that has worked a great deal for me is RPM.
I have watched the video and it has great ideas, I like the the outline part, it really resonated . I guess the word scheduling might have many negative connotations to some. and might bring to mind a rigid and inflexible framework, which I guess it could be, but the way I use it to program minigoals of major goals of my different life areas, it helps me to make sure each week I take a few steps towards, what I ultimately want in my life. My "next actions" are what I place in the day, I used some of your suggestions and I have combined them with the current setup I am using. On Monday, August 22, 2016 at 10:25:05 PM UTC-5, Dwight Arthur wrote: > > Emilio: I want to talk with you about (1) moderation of your forum posts, > (2) scheduling versus planning, (3) more than a to do list, (4) > alternatives to context-per-day > > *Moderation of forum posts* > Forum posts by new users are held for review, in order to weed out spam. > After you post a few times successfully, you will usually find that > moderation has been turned off. > > > *Scheduling versus Planning*At least three of us have encouraged you to > avoid falling into the trap of scheduling your tasks. You continue to > resist this advice, so we should consider the possibility that maybe > scheduling is your most effective way of managing tasks. It might be true. > In my experience maybe 10% to 20% of people actually do better with > scheduling than without. Usually these are people who have to face a client > who proposes some major undertaking and then demands an estimated > completion date, or who need to tell a client or manager exactly how many > more deliverables they can add to their already over-committed lives. You > have not mentioned any external pressures like this, but still, you could > be the exception. But seriously, have you looked at the Getting Things Done > methodology or any of the other popular planning methodologies? Even if you > think that you are the exceptional person who works best with schedules, > you really cannot know that for sure if you have not even considered a > different way of doing it. Let me suggest once more that you read a copy of > the book "Getting Things Done, the art of stress-free productivity" by > David Allen. He does a good job of showing an excellent way of > accomplishing what you need to get done, I'm not going to bother trying to > summarize it for you. If you don't have time to look at the book, at least > invest 13 minutes in this video: https://youtu.be/kOSFxKaqOm4 > > > *More than a to do list*You said "I need more than a to do list." I > agree. You also need more than a schedule, you need a plan. A plan is more > than a schedule. Read the book. > > > *Alternatives to context-per-day*OK, let's assume that you should be > assigning dates to tasks and see whether you are doing it the best that you > can. First, if you are going to have a context per day you could consider > setting open and closed hours per context. For example, you could have a > context #Monday that is open every week from midnight to midnight, and > closed the rest of the week. Or, you could open up your Monday tasks for > preparation Sunday nioght and leave them open for followup Tuesday morning, > by setting #Monday's open hours from 5PM Sunday through 10am Tuesday. > > If I wanted to manage my tasks this way, I would be skeptical about my > ability to accurately predict Friday's must-do tasks on the prior Sunday > night. I would probably assign some tasks to be done today (Monday) and > some to be done tomorrow (Tuesday) and some to be done before the end of > the week. I would use the star to mark tasks to be done today, the blue > flag for tasks to be done tomorrow, and set "the task is a goal for [week]" > for the rest of the week's tasks. I would then use contexts for other > important purposes like activity type (>Calls, >Online) or location > (@HardwareStore, @Library) or contact/client, etc. I would then use the > Active Starred by Context view to show me the tasks I should be working on > today, grouped by context to make it easier to pick the next one. Monday > night, I would look a the starred tasks that did not get completed and > determine what went wrong and what I should try to do about it; I would > review the blue flag list to see if I still think that all of these tasks > should get done Tuesday (especially in view of whatever Monday tasks are > sliding to Tuesday) and I would then put stars onto all of the blue flag > tasks (except for any that I have decided I cannot get to on Tuesday. I > would finish my Monday night review by looking through the Goal:Week list > and adding blue flags to anything I think I should attempt on Wednesday. > -Dwight > > On Monday, August 22, 2016 at 5:19:33 AM UTC-4, Emilio Jimenez wrote: >> >> >> Hi Dwight >> >> Don't really know why my posts don't appear right away, but I hope you >> get to see this one. >> >> A lot of people tell me that scheduling is a trap, but I really can't >> understand why. Maybe I don't explain myself correctly, I don't mean day >> and time 3 months from now. >> >> I just mean Sunday night / Monday Morn, see my different projects both >> business and personal and assign a day of the week for them. And each day >> try to get the musts done, then high priority. To me an important part of >> task management is scheduling, I know we all work differently, I just don't >> do well with a bunch of tasks on my list of all areas and just get done >> what I feel like, the way I do it allows me to get a bit of all areas and >> projects into my week and make progress, since I focus on the 80/20 of the >> day, progress is there even if I don't finish all. >> >> I might be using contexts and a view context view. What do you think? >> >> thanks! >> >> -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/3742300d-c686-46f5-a45d-1435cb703ab4%40googlegroups.com. 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