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Ask HN: What do you use to align your daily todos with your long term goals?

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Re: Ask HN: What do you use to align your daily todos with your long term goals?

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Post by stinos »

BiohaZd wrote: post #31
Joeri wrote: post #9

For my personal life I don't write down long term goals, because I want to live in the now and not in the future. Professionally, I use outlook's todos with three priority classes: some time (low, where long term goals go), soon (normal), and today (high). Each list is organized like a backlog with most important first. I also color-code them by type (coding, process improvement, personal, and delegated). I scan the…

Sound like you are scared of the future. I am the same, don't have long term goals...

Sound like you are scared of the future.

Depends on what you mean with future. I also don't have long term goals and you could say I'm actually not scared of the future because it's impossible to know what it will be (well, only death is a certainty) so to me it is illogical to be scared of it. Or you could say I am scared of a 'known future'. Like, If I'd set a goal to finish the renovations on my house in 1 year, I'd feel somewhat uneasy because I would know there is a possibility I might get bored over a year becasue there's no more renovation work to do. At the same time though I'd realize such a goal is unrealistic at best (again, impossible to predict what you'll encounter, delays due to physical problems, ...) so I wouldn't be scared about whether the goal would be reached.

Re: Ask HN: What do you use to align your daily todos with your long term goals?

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Post by onion2k »

JaviLopezG wrote: post #36

I draw on my window a dashboard with a kind of life's game. I needed 1 million of points to get a price (allow myself to startup another company). I can earn points and bonuses doing things like workout, travel, launch with my family, rock climbing, party with friends, develop small projects,... I had some additional rules. All mornings I spent a minute puting strikes near the icons of the things I did past day. Ever…

I draw on my window a dashboard with a kind of life's game. I needed 1 million of points to get a price (allow myself to startup another company).

If you've recognised a pain that you solve for people and that could turn in to a viable business, waiting until you completed an arbitrary number of other tasks seems like a pointless exercise.

On the other hand, if you don't have a solution to a pain point, this might be a brilliant way to productively put off starting something you (sub)consciously know is a bad idea.

Re: Ask HN: What do you use to align your daily todos with your long term goals?

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Post by AJRF »

I started looking at GTD and then just thought, some of these ideas are good, others I don't need, so I just made my own version of it.

So I have the following Cards in a Trello Board;

1. Inbox -> Things I can reasonably expect to complete in a day or less 2. In Progress -> Limited to 5 per day 3. Projects -> Working on an app? Put details in here 4. Reminders/Waiting -> I've sent a form in, waiting a response before next action 5. Some Day -> Things I would like to tackle some day (Good for reviewing long term goals) 6. Complete / Split into smaller tasks

Re: Ask HN: What do you use to align your daily todos with your long term goals?

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Post by sigi45 »

b6 wrote: post #40
sigi45 wrote: post #38

On one side you are apparently in full control of your life and on the other side you pray? To whom? Why? For what?

I get what you mean, but I think it's interesting to think about the seemingly simple question "do you believe in the power of prayer?" My reflex was just to say no, because I don't think anyone hears you and offers help. On the other hand, I believe strongly in the power of thinking and visualization of goals, and isn't that a lot of what prayer is?

As per definition "Prayer (from the Latin precari "to ask earnestly, beg, entreat")[1] is an invocation or act that seeks to activate a rapport with an object of worship through deliberate communication." i would say no.

If you talk to yourself/think about your life, i would call it something like 'time for self reflection' or something but not prayer.

Re: Ask HN: What do you use to align your daily todos with your long term goals?

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Post by TeMPOraL »

sigi45 wrote: post #38

On one side you are apparently in full control of your life and on the other side you pray? To whom? Why? For what?

Not OP, but as a person raised in Christianity - personal prayer is talking with God; it's not really about asking for supernatural favours, but about maintaining your personal relationship with the Almighty. Reflecting upon your own life is often a part of such a prayer.

Re: Ask HN: What do you use to align your daily todos with your long term goals?

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Post by ycombinete »

sigi45 wrote: post #38

On one side you are apparently in full control of your life and on the other side you pray? To whom? Why? For what?

I can't speak for him, but I can read his comment. The paragraph structure of his comment suggests to me that, to him, prayer involves self-reflection, not handing the wheel to Jesus.

Re: Ask HN: What do you use to align your daily todos with your long term goals?

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Post by Joeri »

BiohaZd wrote: post #31
Joeri wrote: post #9

For my personal life I don't write down long term goals, because I want to live in the now and not in the future. Professionally, I use outlook's todos with three priority classes: some time (low, where long term goals go), soon (normal), and today (high). Each list is organized like a backlog with most important first. I also color-code them by type (coding, process improvement, personal, and delegated). I scan the…

Sound like you are scared of the future. I am the same, don't have long term goals...

No, I'm not afraid of the future and I do have long term goals, but I try to avoid being so bound by them that it precludes me being present.

Re: Ask HN: What do you use to align your daily todos with your long term goals?

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Post by vvdcect »

OJFord wrote: post #30
vvdcect wrote: post #27

So I use 3 trello boards and break my goals/todos into cards. My long & short term todo boards are sorted by icebox, work in progress and done. My daily agenda is sorted into 3 lists, morning, afternoon and evening. I've been using this for almost 6 months and it's pretty simple to manage.

How does daily/afternoon/evening work? Do you archive them when they're done, rather than moving to 'done' as in the other boards?

Most of the cards are fixed. So for instance my morning list has checklist cards like: Exercise, Daily reading, To Read etc.. The only exceptions are cards based on things I need to do for that day, i.e send email to x or call y, these cards will get archived and deleted.
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