Assessment Questions for First Things First Goal
I’ve changed how I do this, inspired by the questions that @k1rsty uses after each schedule block (Beeminding Sticking to a Schedule).
Four or five times a day, I answer the first two questions below, and convert the total from a percentage to a decimal (0 to 1). With that plus the truemean aggregation method, I’m feeling confident that my daily assessment is quite accurate enough.
If I ever answer “No (0)” for the first question, I can fall back to the third question to get points if my goals and TaskRatchet tasks are under control. Basically it’s a way of letting me do whatever the heck I want if I’ve already handled all my must-do activities for the day.
Did I have written plan(s) for this period?
- (30) Yes.
- (20) No but I was working on my full task list in exact urgency order.
- (10) No but I was doing something reasonably sensible.
- ( 0) No.
How well did I keep to the plan / task focus?
- (70) More than 90% of the time.
- (40) More than half the time.
- (10) A little bit.
- ( 0) No plan / task focus.
If I had no plan:
- (80) All my goals are green and all due TaskRatchet tasks are done.
- (50) All my goals are at least blue and all due TaskRatchet tasks are done.
- (20) All my goals are at least orange and all due TaskRatchet tasks are done.