organize my projects

Last saturday, no internet! I did floors and books. Monday, a frenzy of cleaning (my priest came over to bless my home). Today, about 10 projects on my list from organizing my sock drawer to throwing out receipts from 10 years ago. Now lets see if I get any of them done next saturday.

This was supposed to be about simple home projects: Clean the junk out of the corners. Clean cabinets. Organize books. Maybe build a bookshelf (or buy one). Clean carpets. Like that. The problem: Mornings I spend on the internet “organizing”. Then there are breakfast and my noon nap. Waking up from my nap, taking a bath, fixing lunch. Basically, I have from 2 til 4 (30 minutes charting what I’ve done). And today, I looked for ACTIVITIES (hobbies): Urban explorer, paranormal investigator, anchorite (a hobby?). Maybe I was procrastinating. So I thought about “getting things done” (starting a program to build a schedule to organize projects so I can FINALLY get something done). This seems the wrong direction (more time organizing and less time getting things done). At best, I watched news and currents on TV (an activity, at least). I’m hoping that by knowing I have activities planned for Saturdays, I’ll start planning through the week (eg. NEXT Saturday I’ll clean the junk out of the corner in my room). Anyway, this was my first planned activity day. The attitude was different from my weekly schedule. I spent less time online. And I took a vacation from my weekly schedule. I slept better at noon! I think this will work but today wasn’t a total success.

I had a similar goal last year Make A List of Unfinished Projects . This is a good micro goal, but I like this one organize my projects . Aside from listing them, I will have to prioritize them. Then I will have a way figuring out if, when, and how I can get them done. The last part of this goal is also a 43things goal, finish my projects .

I got hold of David Allen’s Getting Things Done many years ago, it was quite OK in the sense of helping me much to better organize myself and my projects, but I guess everyone needs to find his/her own solution at the end, that he/she can really live with.

• I did a big David Allen (GTD) style brain-dump (into OmniOutliner) and created an organized Project List in OmniOutliner
• I then move those projects and related reference material into my own Confluence server. The global access makes up for the extra clicks (hence transfer from capture in OO to Confluence)
• I’ve moved completely to Subversion for checked in code. Everything gets checked in (svn+ssh and SSH keys makes things work well)
• I use JIRA for task/effort tracking (I wrote a GreaseMonkey script to assist in automatically tracking time spent)

At some point (on the todo list) I’ll create a better integrated task system as there’s still a bit of friction between what I put in my OO Action List and what I put in JIRA.

Find the common purpose that connects everything you want to do and work on that using whatever skills and resources you have right around you. Let the dross go. We can be the change we wish to see in the world. Know thyself. Take the red pill. Connect with others who share your passion and change the world TODAY. oh yeah, most importantly, have fun doing it. Play alot inside and Play alot outside. We were children once playing with toys. Use the fork Luke :-)

I have invested the last couple of days sorting, consolidated, releasing and integrating a good 2 or 3 dozen folders from numerous projects into one folder and project. During this process I realized that many of the projects I had been tracking are actually related to each other in various ways. By working with them as integrated parts of a whole I hope to increase my focus and energy flow. I also hope to be able to spend less time while increasing my output yield. I think another benefit may be that it will be easier to recognize where new information needs to go. I can already see a shift in my thought process as far as weeding out distractive non-essential stuff from the synchronistic gems that provide quantum bursts.

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I got off my ass, entered stuff into Basecamp. I now feel much better.

I am going to try an experiment where I start adding my goals from projects that I am currently working on to my 43 Things goals and then create a link to Basecamp for project tracking and communication so that other community member who have shared goals can collaborrate more easily.

Poner en orden mis ideas, anotarlas para que no se me olviden y llevar a cabo el maximo de proyectos. Porque siempre se me ocurre uno nuevo y se me olvida el anterior!