Dwight Interesting...
1. > My daily to-do list includes any active task with a star, > any task with a weekly goal whose date of last > modification is more than 7 days old... So do you have a special view set up to just show stars and weekly goes less than 7 days old etc? 2. Also how do you allocate Projects to Goals? 3. > Tasks can only stay uncategorized for at most two or > three days, so it will get a context, probably Someday. Are you using context tags to control both actual context and actionable status (Someday, Waiting, etc) Cheers J On Friday, December 2, 2016 at 6:44:46 AM UTC, Dwight wrote: > > I I use MLO's Goals field in a different way because I find it helpful - > I'll share it in case it helps you find a new perspective but I am not > necessarily suggesting that this approach is better than any other or that > it will work for anyone besides me. > > One of my highest objectives in task management is to spend less time > doing it (and more time on task execution). One of the most effective steps > in achieving this objective is to avoid scheduling tasks that don't need to > be scheduled, thereby taking back all of the time that I used to spend on > rescheduling tasks that remained open after they were scheduled to be > completed. But task management often involves taling an open task and > saying "not now, come back later" to it. The challenge is to do so without > ending up inadvertently scheduling the task. I use the "Goals" field to > make this happen. > > My purpose in using goals is to control when and whether a task shows up > on my daily to-do list. If something is a weekly goal, that means that I > have a goal to get this thing done in no more that approximately a week. If > something is a monthly goal, that means that I have a goal to get this > thing done in no more that approximately a month. I use the star to mean > "daily goal". And I don't have any yearly goals, so I use the Yearly Goal > value to actually mean Quarterly. > > My daily to-do list includes any active task with a star, any task with a > weekly goal whose date of last modification is more than 7 days old, any > task with a monthly goal whose date of last modification is more than 30 > days old, or any task with a yearly (i.e. quarterly) goal whose date of > last modification is more than 90 days old. If a goal task pops up in my > daily to-do list it means that this task is not getting done in the time I > set for it. Ideally, I will get the task done when it shows up. If I cannot > allocate the time to get it dome then I must have been mistaken in thinking > that it needed to be finished in a day/week/month/quarter. In that case I > should lower the goal, for example by changing a starred task to one that > has a weekly goal. If something has a quarterly goal and has to be lowered > it goes to "someday" with an annual review. Once in a while I am not ready > to postpone a task so seriously but I also cannot get to it today. In this > case I make some tiny edit to the task, usually adding or deleting a space > from the caption or note, which resets the modification date and gives me > another week/month/quarter. If I find myself doing this a second time to a > task I try to have the discipline to drop the goal level at that time. > > So, what do I do about visions, principles, objectives and all of that? > The first thing, in line with the need to spend less time managing tasks, > is that if I find myself spending actual time debating with myself as to > how to categorize something I will try to change my process to make the > question moot. So I reject any process that calls for me to treat an > objective differently from a goal or a vision. I don't track stuff like "be > a good father" or "save for retirement" because they are not actionable and > there is no danger that I will forget to do them. If a thought crosses my > mind like "hey, it would be cool if I could speak the Twi language" I will > create an uncategorized task called "learn Twi". Tasks can only stay > uncategorized for at most two or three days, so it will get a context, > probably Someday. In my next quarterly review I will see whether I can > identify a next step, like chose classroom versus online training, which > will probably get defined as a project with no subtasks, or maybe there > will be a few subtasks for getting started like a task with >Online context > to find and evaluate Twi classes. There may be sub projects within this > project. If I find myself taking Twi classes and having Twi-speaking > friends over for dinner and conversation I will probably check the parent > "learn Twi" task as completed, which does *not* mean that I speak the > language perfectly but does mean that it's not something I need to track > any more. > > -- 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/63d593af-c218-41e6-9086-382ecbd69856%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
