Hello Steppers,
It's 4:30 and Seattle is in the middle of a snow storm.
A snorm? Joining the party of making up words about this. Maybe a foot total by Tuesday, which is well over a lot for us.
Went to bed a bit early due to an early start on Friday. Then at 4:00 awoke and after making certain I wouldn't fall back to sleep got up. What I'm going to work on that I'm sure will bring the drowsies is my autofocus (AF) list.
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I'm experimenting with doing this round of AF on Google sheets. After making the main list of everything on my mind & calendar from now till Taxing Day in April, I'll sort by a coding system for each particular project and that project will get its own page.
Unlike the writer of this piece, I find AF useful even for deadlines. For example, with taxes there are many sub steps. Let's say I estimate I'll need 15 1 hour sessions over the next 8 weeks. I'll make a line like:
Code DoT001 First 5 times on taxes 15 14 13 12 11
T001 means the first time I'm listing this or the first in an order. For example, dropping the forms in the mail would be T999 because that's the last step.
Each time I get to the work I strike through the rightmost number. When I've completed my first 5 sessions, I relist the work with another 5.
This has several aids for me. First, I cut my attention to when can I get to the first five times. Right now, with the snow, can I try for 1 hour a day?
The AF focus comes in by picking what I do and when I do it. If I want an hour but the work is draining, I might cut it to 45 minutes work, do something else, then 15 minutes more work. Strike a number & call it a day.
Alright, to the list.
Revu2