Soooo. First of all, thanks to everyone who answered my question yesterday about concentration and working in flow 🙏🏽
I also received some DMs about this. I was very happy about that.
Buuuuut in the process a new question has arisen.
What do you think about to-do lists? Or plans in general? So daily plans, weekly plans or even plans over years.
Helpful? Or rather not? What helps you with structuring?
#growth #growthstr #plebchain #todolists #plans 
"plans have a way of going awry". I prefer to set milestones and work systematically toward them, reacting to daily progress. Detailed planning has always translated to a waste of time for me. Predicting any edge cases is not ideal, and it limits the improvement on the run or sets enormous blind spots.
Milestones- also a beautiful term. What milestones could these be? I think it's good to leave room for surprises.
Anything that, for you, has a particular significance to deserve that label. While anything in between is made of changes, u-turns stops and acceleration. Sometimes one action calls the other, and meticulous planning might be the most substantial limit
I don't have a daily to do list but I do have a weekly accountability chart of things I do want accomplish every week. For instance I want to hit 5 days per week of working out, hitting 10k steps, praying, reading an hour in the day, only eating in a 12hr window(intermediate fasting). I have the chart on my office wall above the computer monitor to always remind me.
You formulate your weekly goals very specifically, don't you? I have read that this helps you to implement them. The goals must be written down as precisely as possible. Are you familiar with the SMART goals concept?
I find it extremely challenging planing anything beyond 1 Month into the future.
The only exceptions are Meet-Ups, Vacation and Concerts.
Therefore my personal "to-do-list" is rather a mix of calendar, reminders and overarching "Areas of Life", where I dump some tasks from time to time.
Once a week I review this stuff, if it is still relevant or done already
I guess it doesn't work very well for people with a strong urge for "inbox zero" 😛
That sounds kind of nice. A mixture of plans and memories. Do you also add photos or used tickets? Do you think something like long term goal, so for example over 5 years are unrealistic? Maybe for learning a language?
I used to have a big magnetic board with a lot of photos, tickets, trinkets and stuff. But as I grew older, I stopped caring about it.
I do have long term goals (5 to 15 years) though, but they feel more like a vision or concept what kind of person I may be then.
Not like something with a clear actionable path toward it.
Learning languages is not my strong suit… I enjoy science and practical knowledge more.
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