Daily check-in thread for September 21, 2007

ZTD habit 2: check! I'm also going to give myself a bonus point because I cleared out my entire gmail inbox. (I'm not quite sure what bonus point actually is, but rest assured that it is good).

Makes me: 3/3 with 1 bonus point

Did it! :)

Failed to get out and walk last night, was motivated but defeated by allergies :(

I come into this dat at {18 of 20 for September}

Promise:

#1 Fitness: Hip Opening Basics - I am pressed for time and will do a short routine. I need to preview more inflexible-people routines before adding in a different one.

#2 Get out: I am going to my sisters to tidy up her Vista Home Premium setup and also do some errands together.

#3 Organization: Today is computer tune-up day. I will do routine cleanups of RSS feeds and edit web pages as part of my project, 0.59beta phase step 1. The time will be spread out.

I need to do "time boxing," putting all of my promises and other commitments on my day-timer pages so that there is a place for them to happen, and then do it, adjusting for interruptions and unexpected items as I go. I have been fallng down on this. Steve's post on yesterday's challenges reminded me how important that is.

Got to bed on time last night so that's a success for me. good luck all over the weekend.

Had a good solid day working on my "living space simplification" project today -
7 concentrated work hours. I listed another 15 unused items for sale on
Craigslist, and sold 6 of them right away. It's going to take a bit
of a push this weekend to finish my Sept challenge project by Sunday night,
but that's still my goal. Then I'll have a week to lay around and take it
easy (ha! not likely). Going into Sat Sept 22 I'm {17:21}.

I used "time boxing" to rotate between different mundane organizing
tasks today for the first time, and really like that way of busting into
'stuck' progress areas - will definitely be using that more going forward. By limiting
the time allow yourself to work on each task (before switching onto another
one), you eliminate the dread of working on just about anything. I was using
:15 minute bursts on 7 tasks today, rotating between them. Highly recommended
if you haven't tried it (give it a go, orcmid!).

dstalcup, i think the reward for a clean GMail inbox is a in-person "Black Belt" knighting from
Master David Allen himself, ceremony at your home of course:) You are probably in the .00001%
percentile band as far as email management - not too many people can get it to zero and
keep there. I couldn't keep mine there until i switched to GMail, imho it's a godsend.

-steve

I come into this dat at {18 of 20 for September}

Promise:

#1 Fitness: Hip Opening Basics - I am pressed for time and will do a short routine. I need to preview more inflexible-people routines before adding in a different one.

#2 Get out: I am going to my sisters to tidy up her Vista Home Premium setup and also do some errands together.

#3 Organization: Today is computer tune-up day. I will do routine cleanups of RSS feeds and edit web pages as part of my project, 0.59beta phase step 1. The time will be spread out.

I need to do "time boxing," putting all of my promises and other commitments on my day-timer pages so that there is a place for them to happen, and then do it, adjusting for interruptions and unexpected items as I go. I have been fallng down on this. Steve's post on yesterday's challenges reminded me how important that is.

-"orcmid"

Well, that was dismal.

#2 is complete and was great.

I didn't do #1 at all and #3 was lame.

I did not have timeboxing and I am learning that expecting to catch up in the evenings doesn't work. I need to rest and recreation after about 8pm these days and the best place for committed effort is before 6pm daily. I will take that into consideration for future promises.

I am now at {18 of 21 for September}

did not complete my goal