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Ask HN: How do you manage your life: set goals, plan, manage time, etc.?
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Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your life: set goals, plan, manage time, etc.?
#12Recover as much loss as possible in between natural and unavoidable disasters.
Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your life: set goals, plan, manage time, etc.?
#13This may be an unpopular opinion, but I stopped making even close term plans/goals a few months ago because I was obsessively over planing. After a few months of this strategy I can say I'm better off than I was. Here's another unpopular opinion about staying motivated or productive because this question is on HN almost every day: reach out to a private practice psychiatrist on Zocdoc that has very good reviews where…
>This may be an unpopular opinion, but I stopped making even close term plans/goals a few months ago
What a coincidence I also stopped making even close term plans when I reached 36/37. I felt that I needed to drastically reduce my focus instead of trying to make plans that I had never been able to follow for more than two months.
Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your life: set goals, plan, manage time, etc.?
#14White board and pen
Pen and paper
Google sheets / docs, so my partner and I can share things
Sometimes I email myself thigns
Voice assistant scheduling "Hey google, reminder tomorrow at 3pm to take out the garbage" or such like.
That's it. Anything more complicated creates more friction than value.
Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your life: set goals, plan, manage time, etc.?
#15Throughout my personal life I use Portfolio SAFe to align strategy with execution and organize my solution development around the flow of value through one or more value streams.
Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your life: set goals, plan, manage time, etc.?
#16For the tech stack: I use nextcloud on a physical machine at home, and a MediaWiki instance as a personal knowledge base. On a goal and task management: For tasks, I have a monthly Todo page on my wiki. I use nextcloud calendar provider, with connectors for thunderbird and Android. For goal management: I learned to tackle a single "big thing" at the time. Right now, I'm dieting, and that's it. I've lost about 6.5kg s…
Mediawiki. That’s a cool idea. How do you organize organize it and how much detail do you enter? For example, if you’re learning Django do you document what you’re doing or is the wiki more for tracking what you’re doing at a higher level?
Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your life: set goals, plan, manage time, etc.?
#17White board and pen Pen and paper Google sheets / docs, so my partner and I can share things Sometimes I email myself thigns Voice assistant scheduling "Hey google, reminder tomorrow at 3pm to take out the garbage" or such like. That's it. Anything more complicated creates more friction than value.
Thank you. I still like writing stuff down too. There’s something about it that seems to work better for certain things.
Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your life: set goals, plan, manage time, etc.?
#18This may be an unpopular opinion, but I stopped making even close term plans/goals a few months ago because I was obsessively over planing. After a few months of this strategy I can say I'm better off than I was. Here's another unpopular opinion about staying motivated or productive because this question is on HN almost every day: reach out to a private practice psychiatrist on Zocdoc that has very good reviews where…
>This may be an unpopular opinion, but I stopped making even close term plans/goals a few months ago What a coincidence I also stopped making even close term plans when I reached 36/37. I felt that I needed to drastically reduce my focus instead of trying to make plans that I had never been able to follow for more than two months.
You must make some sort of plans? I’ve done some backpack traveling and would always have a rough plan that I didn’t follow very well, but I feel the plan helped. I wanted to get to Venice. What would I do when I GOT to Venice?
Meet a cool Australian guy to go out drinking all night and ridE around on these water buses to various places all day wasn’t in the plan.
So I think an outline of a plan you know will change seems to still have value.
Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your life: set goals, plan, manage time, etc.?
#19I’ve found some use in having a “vision document”, which is essentially a written explanation of the person I want to be / goal I want to accomplish. If it’s possible to add images, those help too. The more complete the vision, the better.
By reading this every day with my morning coffee, I help re-orient myself and remember the path I was on. Without it, I tend to drift.
Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your life: set goals, plan, manage time, etc.?
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
>This may be an unpopular opinion, but I stopped making even close term plans/goals a few months ago What a coincidence I also stopped making even close term plans when I reached 36/37. I felt that I needed to drastically reduce my focus instead of trying to make plans that I had never been able to follow for more than two months.
You must make some sort of plans? I’ve done some backpack traveling and would always have a rough plan that I didn’t follow very well, but I feel the plan helped. I wanted to get to Venice. What would I do when I GOT to Venice? Meet a cool Australian guy to go out drinking all night and ridE around on these water buses to various places all day wasn’t in the plan. So I think an outline of a plan you know will change…
IMHO, It is like sailing on a boat - you at least need to have a rough direction, otherwise you will get nowhere