Micro-update: I do have spring goals set, but not a full writeup yet—I’m leaving for vacation tomorrow, so I’ve been just barely keeping my head above water preparing for that. Writing coming when I get back! I’ve gotten back, so:
Spring goals writeup ahoy!
Winter Goals Retrospective
A qualified success!
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cleandeskhas been effective, but its rate is a bit low. I’ve just kicked it up a notch, and it’s certainly at least directionally successful. -
weekly-reviewis doing a good job with some of the issues with my GTD system, but my Next Actions depth is definitely still increasing over time, so I probably need another system to manage that more directly, control-systems style. I’m not worrying about it right now, since things are still better than they were, and I want some more time to think about potential approaches. Shape Up, the basecamp book, in particular has me thinking some about the futility of backlogs, and maybe I should by default age tasks out if they don’t happen in a month or season? Definitely more thinking to do here—but, and I can’t emphasize this enough, things are better! - We signed up for our tennis lesson! We got six; the first is next Friday. It looks like the weather is cooperating, too!
Bugs for Spring
The bugs I’m targeting this season are (phrased as identified: they’ve all seen at least a little bit of progress since deciding I was targeting them!):
- A few of my friends and I want to put together a little bit of an app, but I haven’t actually done any work for it.
- Our new house needs a ton of renovation & maintenance work before we can move it, and I don’t feel like I’m moving quickly enough on it, and there’s a hard deadline in June.
- Meditation, like yoga, is one of those “I don’t do it very frequently but every time I do I think it was really really nice” activities. My yoga practice is slightly better than my meditation practice, so I’m targeting improving my meditation practice. Yoga is probably coming in a future season if it doesn’t improve on its own.
Spring Bugs
Concretizing those bugs into improvable metrics:
- Spend time on the app. Adding a new goal, endoscreen, as a Toggl integration.
- Work through the list of issues discovered during home inspection. I’m not sure if I want to track this as a whittle-down on a to-do list, or as just time-put-in. No matter what, I need a list, so I’ve
added a TaskRatchet taskput a task on my calendar that’s due in a week to turn my big inspection-report PDF into an concise actionable list. I’ll make some sort of goal to track this, but haven’t yet. I couldn’t log into TaskRatchet; I’ll deal with that separately. The task I added reads “Complete inspection tasklist by midnight or pay $10 to someone”… I’m hoping I’ll have my TaskRatchet login sorted out by then, but if not, I can use the beeminder api to charge myself or transfer some money to my wife in our budget. - Meditate more. Added a new beenary goal, meditate.
I wanted to make this another reply, rather than an edit, but I got an error that I couldn’t make 3 consecutive replies! I’ve never seen that error before; @dreev, is it new? If you’ve recently updated the Discourse version or something? Might want to turn that off, if so—seems like a weird fit given the “updatey” nature of many threads in this forum. (Edit: I just updated my calendial thread and did not get the error there!)