Rocktober
This RockTober is WriteTober!
Every year, I step away from my regular day-to-day job for a month to reboot. To recommit. To readjust my coordinates. To revaluate my life.
OR
Every month, I dedicate myself to completing one important project. In theory, by the end of the year, I'd have made progress on 12 significant projects.
Read The Journey
Just as we are happiest (and productive) on our journeys, I travel from Oct 1-31 with a single destination (objective). My day-to-day work is not in question. Each day, I take another step down the trail.
As I read this reddit post, I am reminded of Jake Jabs, and how he told me he only had 1 item on his todo list each day. What if my one todo was to: Write the next chapter.
Jake is a wealthy and wise man! He enlisted others to own the various tasks that kept his multi million dollar company rolling.
This response probably could have been written by him:
"Speaking as an old, retired person, you can ruin your life and drive yourself close to the edge by constantly reminding yourself of how many things are persistently demanding your time and attention. As my dearly departed father told me once back in the last century when I was bragging up my Franklin planner and how busy and complex my work/home life was."
"If you are trying to do so much at the same time that you have to write down what you need to do either you are trying to do too much or you are doing a half-assed job at what you are accomplishing because you are trying to do too much."
When you get overwhelmed with things to do, split the list into "essentials" and "desirables," then throw the desirables pile in the trash and get to work on what you should have been doing in the first place.
Managing projects is a different matter. Included in the scope of work is task management, which would entail a specific management system to keep all the data organized and maintain progress.
Is it time for a task list revolt?