10 February 2008
Wow time flies
Still going quite well here. I had my first weekend
and right before I got there I realized that I hadn't
thought about if I was going to do a plan of attack
for weekends or not. I didn't do one even though I
sat and thought about it before hand. My decision was
based on the idea that the weekend is more full with
family time. I didn't want a plan of attack or more
importantly I didn't want a list of 3 things to do on
the weekend.
As it turns out I was quite productive this weekend. More cleaning and purging of things I should have gotten rid of years ago. It made me think that I should do a plan of attack for the weekend because I do frequently have a project or 2 to do then. I will definitely give that more thought.
Although I did plan out my day every night last week I did come up against some obstacles. One was that on Thursday night while planning for Friday I only listed 2 things on my list. My goal was to list 3 things. This wasn't too big of a deal and I know what led me to that result. As the week went on and I accomplished my 3 tasks a day I had left some less concrete items on my master todo list. Besides those items the rest were items that were a little harder to accomplish. With the easy stuff out of the way I procrastinated putting the final item on my plan of attack for Friday thinking that I would fill it in that day. I think I might have done more than 3 things that day but I never got around to listing that 3rd item. So from now on out I am going to make sure to list it.
Now that I can see the nice results the simple plan with 3 things a day works, I will make sure to use it every day during the normal work week. This is approaching the harder phase of habit building. The section where the excitement and initial motivation fade and you have to get through on more willpower. Like I said, the positive results should help me get through this part.
As it turns out I was quite productive this weekend. More cleaning and purging of things I should have gotten rid of years ago. It made me think that I should do a plan of attack for the weekend because I do frequently have a project or 2 to do then. I will definitely give that more thought.
Although I did plan out my day every night last week I did come up against some obstacles. One was that on Thursday night while planning for Friday I only listed 2 things on my list. My goal was to list 3 things. This wasn't too big of a deal and I know what led me to that result. As the week went on and I accomplished my 3 tasks a day I had left some less concrete items on my master todo list. Besides those items the rest were items that were a little harder to accomplish. With the easy stuff out of the way I procrastinated putting the final item on my plan of attack for Friday thinking that I would fill it in that day. I think I might have done more than 3 things that day but I never got around to listing that 3rd item. So from now on out I am going to make sure to list it.
Now that I can see the nice results the simple plan with 3 things a day works, I will make sure to use it every day during the normal work week. This is approaching the harder phase of habit building. The section where the excitement and initial motivation fade and you have to get through on more willpower. Like I said, the positive results should help me get through this part.
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