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I interacted in a workshop with a person who taught about personal organization, and we had a phone session. I thought that it was important to fill your plann
by jokoon 6y ago
I interacted in a workshop with a person who taught about personal organization, and we had a phone session.
I thought that it was important to fill your planning and calendar with fixed things.
Instead she advised me to just plan week by week. I'm a freelance and honestly, it sort of feel better to be part of a bigger, organized group that tells you the things that are to do.
When you're the only decider of your own planning, it feels really weird: do I just have to fill up my planning with whatever things I deem of importance?
Just like Sartre said, we are shockingly free (existentialism etc), and we still crave and aspire to be part of an organized group with goals we can adhere to, to feel safe.
- dkarl 6y agoI agree; regimenting your day is a poor substitute for short-term planning. It looks very orderly to have items like 9:00am, read email, 9:10am, Make sure Jira tickets are in correct states, 9:20am, respond to email, etc., filling your calendar from now until eternity, but it makes more sense to spend ten minutes at the end of every day planning the start of the next. Maybe you know your Jira tickets and email are in order and you can sleep an extra half hour. Maybe you have an important presentation in the afternoon and it would be best to spend 8am-9am nailing down the answer to a question you know will come up. It's very hard but very important to stop working a few minutes early at the end of the day. You want to keep coding (or whatever) right up until the minute you need to stop, but that leaves you unknowingly disoriented at the start of the next day. You will either pick right back up with the coding, forgetting about everything else, or start aimlessly and waste the first hour of the morning trying to restore your awareness of priorities.