Managing the To-Dones for 2012
With the latter part of my 2011 being a bust, I am welcoming 2012 with open arms and with the resolve that I’m going to look back on 2012 and say that it was an awesome year.
I first had written a “to do” list: a set of New Year’s resolutions, if you will. Then I realized, this probably won’t get me where I need to be. Though a to do list can be a good productivity tool, especially in the workplace, I find having empty checkboxes to fill doesn’t really motivate me to do the tasks noted next to them. And when I see the empty checkboxes that result from my inability to meet the expectations that I have set, it gives me this sense of failure, and I am further de-motivated.
What does motivate me is seeing in retrospect things that I have done or have observed. It gives me the feeling of “Wow, I can do this…because I had been doing it before.” I have known this for some time as I have been actively tweeting for the sake of keeping an archive of all of it.
So instead of doing this only in tweets (which are open to the whole wide world), I’ve decided to formulate a way to have a way of noting all the things I do, keeping in mind my endearment for writing things out as well as using databases and technology.
In the shot:
-My MacBook Air showing Bento 4
-My 2012 Weekly Moleskine for me to recollect my feelings of the day
-TWO 2012 Daily Moleskine Diaries: one to note mundane details about my day, another for a 365 Gratitude project I’m starting
-My iPhone 4S with various apps, including Bento, My Fitness Pal, and ScatterBrain
As I utilize and tweak my “system” further, I’ll get to the decision on posting more details about how I have everything working together. Doing this visual for now, which was posted at a low resolution (and looks downright awful.)
Oh, and yes, I do keep a “To Do” List: a disposable post-it note in my Moleskine.
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