Starting Friday, I began failing hard. Here I am on sunday night, trying to get my life back in order.
looking back on the last week:
*I tweaked my contact and calendering systems a bit. I’m using some sort of mix of google sync on my iphone, thunderbird and sunbird, with some scheduleworld sync and funambol sync thrown in there. I’m happy with contact sync in that it’s immediate and invisible. I’m unhappy with calendar sync in that i have to manually sync to scheduleworld, then manually to google from there. also, sometimes stuff just doesn’t show up on my iphone, which is no good.
*i got much better at sending 2-liner emails. good job, parker.
*i’m getting comfortable with using a folded up piece of 8.5×11 paper as my todo list. i still liked using the task manager on my old treo 650 better, but this is working okay for now. i still need to get used to pulling it out and giving it a look-over more often. maybe that’ll be the goal for next week. every time i have a free moment, pull out the list and see if there are fires to be put out, or trivial tasks that can be knocked out.
*mornings are still a MAJOR weakness. like, this is really bad. i lose so many hours for no good reason because i don’t just get myself out of bed.
*i can never seem to be on a good GTD routine and a good workout routine at the same time. I’m not going to push working out quite yet, but this is a goal for if/when i start getting more comfortable with my GTD system. This may prove particularly tough because working out significantly alters my sleep cycles. But it might ultimately improve focus. We’ll see.
that’s all i can think of for now. i’m still moving in the right direction, but i seem to have been progressively slipping since i started ~a week ago. here’s to hoping i can bring it back starting tonight/tomorrow.
sidenote: this post is sloppy, untagged, and not checked for grammar. this may become a trend… it might be necessary to lower the entry barrier created by a high standard in order for me to actually get my thoughts out there more often.
Being efficient and productive on a daily basis is a neverending struggle. I too have been logging my failures on my blog, albeit with a lamer name: Week in Review
http://charliesensei.tumblr.com/tagged/Week_In_Review
I have decided I like your name better, and stolen it.
http://charliesensei.tumblr.com/tagged/efficiency_report
If you want me to change it back, let me know.
Until then keep up the good fight. I guess, what I’ve found helps with mornings is having a set time the night before when you stop all inputs (food, alcohol, tobacco, whatever you fancy, and turn off the computer).
Peace.
On the last commnet I tried to put my name in in Japanese, but I guess that didn’t work.