| Work: * have occasional roadmap meetings with decision-makers from the department/greater org * * discuss growth target/expectations for 1-2 years out * assuming the growth, identify what will prevent us from hitting it * * systems+processes that can't scale * * long-term migration plans * use these as long-term goals * every quarter, look at the goals and identify something we can achieve in 3 months to get closer * * write it down with deliverables * * work out who is available to do the work * do sprints/agile/etc. until the end of quarter * review Home: * come up with the 1-2 year goals * * remember them (or write them down) * make Trello tickets in a Some Day list for things you can do right now that get you closer to your goals * * rank them by importance/deadline (do this whenever you feel like it) * take one from the top and put them into a Today list * do them * * if something stops you, put them in a Waiting… list with a deadline & indication of who you're waiting on * * * e.g. Open a Stock Trading Account [waiting for response] [due 3 weeks] "sent off the paperwork to trader & waiting for account details" * move them to a Done in 2017-03 list when they're done * * archive the list at the end of the period |
edit: also not allocating time for a task to be done: tasks take as long as they need to, there's no "I will have updated my IRA investment preferences by 2017-03-14" because you'll miss those dates and then train yourself not to be worried about them (and ignore them), OR have an introspective fugue on where exactly you went wrong as a person who can't even complete a simple task that other people could do in 5 minutes what is wrong with you