Checklist day - Getting things done at home, on Hive and with my writing!

1 day ago

Yesterday I posted about creating the opportunities instead of waiting for them to happen.

Today I make a plan and then I DO the plan.

Many people are good at dreaming about their goals and creating even extensive plans on what they will do and all the things that will come with it. It is good to create a strategy of how you will tackle a project.

I have run many projects at work as well as projects for recreational interests and one thing that I am certain about is that the plan generally needs to be changed, altered or adapted to suit the reality of what you find when you actually get things started.

But you build a plan anyway, because you need to have something that designs a structure that you can follow that will help you to judge what comes next.

Overplanning

I have seen people become paralyzed with this concept of overplanning, where they need to get so much detail and try to fathom every little thing without actually getting started.

The longer they plan, the less time there is to actually execute the plan and in the real world this can lead to having a shortage of time. You need to be flexible in mind and be able to respond to changes in the plan with Dexterity!

The key to avoid overplanning is to allow for extra time and then move onwards.

Creating a day checklist

I can probably write an entire article just about job/project planning but I will refrain from doing so right now.

Right now I want to focus on the Checklist aspect alone.

There are two kinds of Checklist:

The Diary Planner and the Objective Counter.

The Diary Planner Checklist is the sort of structure to a day that involved appointments, meetings and actions that require your skill and attention at specific times.

It means that when a task needs to be slotted into your day and you need to be in a certain location at a specific time that you will be able to see if you have the time to do this task before or only after the times events and meetings that you have already arranged.

The Objective Counter Checklist is a list of things "To do", thus it can be called a "To do list". And this is merely when you have a list of objectives to accomplish and you get them done and then tick off those items from your list.

Sometimes you will have so many items on this list that you cannot complete them all in a single day or session. But it shows progress that something got done and then you can move those leftover items to a new checklist for a future day.

It is also important to know how to rate the priority of items on your checklist! If you only complete trivial items you may find that your time was not being used for things that are more important to get done!

Hybridization and my own Checklist of the day.

Usually, if you find it natural to use both planning systems, you may find yourself starting to use aspects of both. This gives you a list of things to do with finite or suggestive times to get them done in.

Some of the items that I have on my list I could dedicate 100 hours to and it will not be COMPLETE but there will be PROGRESS should I spend an hour on it today. It becomes important not to slip into stagnation and to take responsibility and an active stance to getting things done!

This post and my engagement on Hive was on my list. Therefore, when I hit Publish on this post, I have completed an item and I can check it off and cross it out.

I like having something on my list that I can cross out early. The concept of having made the first cut, the first break and winning the first success means that there is already some merit to the day. I have already accomplished something and the day was not a waste no matter what happens.

On my list is three main things:

Hive
Household
Writing

I want to see progress in my Hive posts and engagement. So I need to spend time on that.
I want to fix and clean things around the house, so I have added tasks for myself on the checklist.
I want to see progress with my fiction writing. So I have set aside time to do this.

Now... I need to hit Publish and go on to the next item on my list!

Wish me luck!

Cheers!
@zakludick