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Define Your Work Anonymous 12/21/14 (Sun) 12:04:01 No.174

Pocket recommended this article to me:

https://zapier.com/blog/scale-yourself-scott-hanselman/

I got one really good thing out of it:

>Defining Work - You sit down and think about what work you need to be doing

>"How often have you actually put on your calendar one-hour of time to say, 'I'm going to sit down and think about what work I need to be doing.'" he says. "No, we panic and we look at our (to-do list) and we sort it. Then we just kind of freak out for a while and then the (to-do list) gets larger."

>Instead of this haphazard approach, take time to define your work. Allen says it'll take an average of one hour per day for the typical professional.

This is good shit. I used to take time every morning to map out on paper what I wanted to do that day and it made the days much more satisfying... but then I got overconfident and started relying too much on technology and stopped using pen and ink. I fell into the trap of the overwhelming, ever-growing to-do list.

Time to start planning and defining my work for every day again.

Anonymous 12/21/14 (Sun) 12:05:33 No.175

>>174
>pen and ink
*I meant pen and paper

Anonymous 12/22/14 (Mon) 03:40:51 No.176

>>174
That was a good read m8, thanks.

I used to do the to-do list thing too but like the article said "being busy is a form of laziness - lazy thinking and indiscriminate action".

Anonymous 12/22/14 (Mon) 18:09:37 No.177

I started thinking about what you said, OP:

>I used to take time every morning to map out on paper what I wanted to do that day and it made the days much more satisfying... but then I got overconfident and started relying too much on technology and stopped using pen and ink.

I do think it's so much better if you sit down every day and decide what's going to make it a satisfying day. Sometimes you "know what you have to do today", and it might even be the right thing, but deciding this per-day can make the end of that day satisfying if you got whatever portion of the work that you planned for the day finished. I use GTD and it's good for having a bunch of tasks ready for when you find yourself with some odd lot of time, but I appreciated the Franklin method for setting a daily list, as I mention in another thread.

I have found someone making a decent GTD Android application which is still in development; maybe I can slip some funds his way in exchange for this sort of feature.

Anonymous 12/22/14 (Mon) 18:12:15 No.178

>>174

The other thing that struck me is:

>Allen says it'll take an average of one hour per day for the typical professional.

I don't really spend that long. Maybe twenty minutes? This makes me wonder if:

>I'm not spending enough time doing this.

or

>I'm not that much of a professional...yet.

I guess not really knowing the answer to that is an opportunity to reflect on it, though. I read the book about six and a half years ago, so maybe it would be helpful to flip through it again.