| This is good. Especially this: > A review of your “ideal you,” your ideal future, your major goals and desires in life. One 'problem' with many task management methods is that when you slip (which most of us do) there's an aversion to opening up your Wunderlist/Excel/moleskin months later and seeing how far your current self is behind your aspirational self. Task managers are good at atomizing goals into objectives but overlook motivations and outcomes. They lack a 'remind me again what's in it for future-me?' feature. I'm currently attempting to code such a feature into my app. By way of example, take learning French as a goal: * Tasks: the usual list of todos. Go to evening classes; Watch 5 hours of TV5Monde each week. etc. * Resources: links to Youtube videos, uploaded language podcasts, communities on the web. * Inspiration: images of French cities you want to visit, scenes from a favorite French film, quotes, a mini journal-entry about that French girl or guy you met that one time. Snippets of things the French-speaking-you will appreciate. * Insights: how much time you're dedicating to the goal, hours already spent and estimated completion date based on your current rate of productivity. So your task manager serves not only as a checklist but also as a control-room (or if you like, moodboard) for that goal. Tasks, tools, motivation and a feedback loop all in one place. |
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