Morning for being creative.
Early- to mid-afternoon for reviewing, commenting and considering/thinking.
Morning for being creative.
Early- to mid-afternoon for reviewing, commenting and considering/thinking.
It only takes a single sentence to peturb. Last night, while listening to Episode 70: Anatomy of a Project List (nestedfolderspodcast.com), one of those sentences came out of the blue and has had me thinking every since.
Rosemary Orchard at one point said something like, "That’s not a project. That’s a goal." Immediately gears started turning in my head and I realised that many of my projects are in fact goals. It explains a lot why nothing ever happens on them. My focus and attention is wrong. I’m trying to go from goal to next action (task) and it’s too big a leap.
Here’s an example project title. "Update photo library". Granted, it is one of those on-going "projects" that never ends. Under it I know I need to:
It all boils down to "work on some of that stuff when I have the inclination to"
Now I’m thinking a little differently. My role is Curator of family memories with the goal to Add metadata to all family photos. Why that goal is important to me, I’ve not yet parsed.
From there, and as I review my role and goal, I’ll come up with projects. They will be something like:
Smaller, more focussed, and more likely to provide a sense of achievement.
I’m looking forward to seeing where I end up.
During my mediation practice this morning, one of the distractions I had to deal with was considering what “meditation practice” actually means.
Is it practice to improve?
Or, practice as in something habitual or repeated?
I came to the conclusion it’s the latter simply because if the focus of your meditation practice is to get better at meditation, then I believe you’re missing the point of it all.
This evening I’ve been experimenting with Obsidian Publish to publish a few blog entries to see if I can get a workable solution. Here’s what I know so far.
I’m primarily an observational blogger. Throughout the day I’ll notice something and think, "I wonder if that’s an example of…" and I’ll use it as the prompt to share what I’ve observed.
There are three reasons for this.