0917 Articles on Reminders, chose a new English name
🖱️ Renamed the photos I made these days
💭 The boss said he’s going to the Expo, so I guess he won’t come to the office today.
📙 I’ll spend the day reading and start my second book on HTML5🚫.
✍️ I realized that my English writing has improved a lot compared to last month, but it’s still not good enough. I can’t use difficult words yet.
🔍 10:20 Researching how to use Reminders well
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📚 Further reading — How I Use the iPad’s Files App to Manage My Life (Yes, My Whole Life)
📖 10:45 Continued reading Getting Things Done
Notes:
Someday/Maybe List: projects I might want to do, but not now . . . but I’d like to be reminded of them regularly.
The item you’ll probably review most frequently is your calendar, which will remind you about the “hard landscape” for the day—that is, what things truly have to be handled that day.
After checking your calendar, you’ll most often turn to your Next Action lists. These hold the inventory of predefined actions that you can take if you have any discretionary time during the day.
Projects, Waiting For, and Someday/Maybe lists need to be reviewed only as often as you think they have to be in order to stop you from wondering about them.Critical Success Factor: The Weekly Review
Everything that might require action must be reviewed on a frequent enough basis to keep your mind from taking back the job of remembering and reminding.The Weekly Review is the time to:
- Gather and process all your stuff.
- Review your system.
- Update your lists.
- Get clean, clear, current, and complete.
Every decision to act is an intuitive one. The challenge is to migrate from hoping it’s the right choice to trusting it’s the right choice.
The Four-Criteria Model for Choosing Actions in the Moment: (in this order) context, time available, energy available, and priority.
The Threefold Model for Identifying Daily Work:
- Doing predefined work
- Doing work as it shows up
- Defining your work
The Six-Level Model for Reviewing Your Own Work:
- Horizon 5: Purpose and principles
- Horizon 4: Vision
- Horizon 3: Goals
- Horizon 2: Areas of focus and accountabilities
- Horizon 1: Current projects
- Ground: Current actions
Your mind goes through five steps to accomplish virtually any task:
- Defining purpose and principles
- Outcome visioning
- Brainstorming
- Organizing
- Identifying next actions
How much of this planning model do you really need to flesh out, and to what degree of detail? The simple answer is, as much as you need to get the project off your mind.
In general, the reason things are on your mind is that the outcome and action step(s) have not been appropriately defined, and/or reminders of them have not been put in places where you can be trusted to look for them appropriately. Additionally, you may not have developed the details, perspectives, and solutions sufficiently to trust the efficacy of your blueprint.
📘 14:20 Finished reading Part 1
📖 15:30 Continued reading The Attention Merchants
Notes:
In retrospect, the first wave of bloggers and their fellow travelers can be likened to a first wave of visitors to some desert island, who erect crude, charming hostels and serve whatever customers come their way, and marvel at the paradise they’ve discovered. As in nature, so, too, on the web: the tourist traps high and low are soon to follow; commercial exploitation is on its way. Such, unfortunately, is the nature of things.
🖥️ 16:45 I used what I’ve learned these past few days to make a recruiting page demo.
💡 I can use Calibre to organize my ebooks.
I decided on Ray as my new English name.
Why I chose Ray as my English name?
- The English name of the fish エイ is ray.
- The initial of Ray is the same as the first letter of my Chinese name.
- The spelling is simple and easy to remember.
- It’s a gender-neutral name.