Thursday
Jun252009
Autofocus 2 latest situation
Thursday, June 25, 2009 at 9:47 I’m still having to make some adjustments to the new system, so it may be a few days yet. I want it to be as good as I can make it before releasing it. It’s getting the precise rules for “dismissal” right which is causing the delay.
Reader Comments (32)
I agree with Charles: thank you very much for making this system freely available (and thanks also to the forum regulars for their ideas on how to get the best from Autofocus).
Take the time necessary for the system to be available. Thanks again for all.
I just began my new AF book and it works quiet well.
Many thanks
Dismissal tweaks ? Excellent. Now I am even more excited about the upcoming launch. With a holiday weekend coming in the US, I might even be able to take time to change over cleanly.
As far as I have gotten, you have already tweaked it in the blog comments, but it will be great to see it formalized in its own release.
You need to get more than just fame recognition for this wonderful system. Maybe it is time to make the process into an ebook. You can always send out updates to the buyers. or even an updated version of DIT with AF2 combined in.
looking forward to the new system. Thanks
What cultish requirement to follow the rules?
You may have to change quite a lot, I'm afraid. But my advice would be to keep the old one going as well because I expect some people will continue to prefer AF1.
@mbo1915, I'm not sure what you think "using your brain" involves. Perhaps you want to become acquainted with the notion of a "procedure". Alternatively, you might find it enlightening to attempt making something like Beef Wellington by "using your brain" as opposed to yielding to the "cultish requirement" of following a recipe...
What delay was that? I said I would release the details sometime this week. On the planet I live on it's still only Thursday.
If Autofocus was a book I'd buy it even though the system is published on the web. I think I'd do that to show appreciation and express the value of what you have produced.
Is there enough material on this blog relating to AF for you to produce a book or an ebook?
Thanks for taking the time to get the system just right - looking forward to it.
-Christian
Thanks Mark, and looking forward to AF2
Following the comments about releasing an ebook with details of the AF system, I wondered if you knew about Darren Rowse's new blogging book http://www.problogger.net/31dbbb-workbook/ Although this book is a compilation of information that is already available on his website, it has sold a large number of copies because people like to have a book rather than having to go on to the internet when they want to refer to it.
No harm, I say.
Mark: thanks for your time and effort - I'm really looking forward to your new version! Cheers!
Go out and buy another copy of "Do It Tomorrow ..." and give it to someone who might need it. That way more folk will get to know of Mark and he will get his royalties. Now, you do have a first copy of your own, right everyone ?
This model is similar to the musicians who leave the big labels and self publish for free on the web. Adoring, rabid fans download, listen and then go back to encourage by buying on CD. Well, some of us do - R
Once the fabricated exitement about AF2,0 has ended, the fanboys have sobered up and moved on from being "properly" (@Anon_LF) exited, there will be new great impulses and creative ideas from Mark to try out. I find the high expectations revealing: Maybe progress on one's most important tasks depends less on circumstances and systems than we like to think.
I like the idea of a real book to buy on MF site.
The web is great for getting information. But on a paper book you can show examples, have a real executive summury, have the pleasure to turn the pages, to go backward, forward. Most of all a real book can go in a library as a reference. Since over 20 years i still have the best book i ever red about negociation from MarkHCormack "all you will never learn at harvard" hope my translation is good for i have it in French. It is so annotated and highlined that sometime i need to read it carefully just to understand.
If Mark, you make a real book about AF, i hope it will be created as a practical manual may be a collect of little summury with example because your method is so great that it must be applied step by step.
I didn't at the beginning and this was my mistake. Now i stricktly apply the method and things goes well excepts about what you mentioned at the beginning of this thread.
This is the reason why this waiting for AF2 so tease me. I am sure i gona learn a lot from it and really hope to solve a big parts of the difficulties i encountered with AF(1). Chears.
All productivity systems are really just ways to "trick" one resistant part of you into physically doing things that another part of you believes is necessary to do.
No system is going to actually do the stuff for you or achieve the goals for you so I would never look to any of them, even AF 2.0, to be the ultimate answer because unless you (not meaning you personally) deal with the deeper issues of the causes of resistance first then sooner or later you'll run into that resistant part of you again...and you'll be tweaking the system looking for another "trick", or claiming that the system doesn't work.
I believe it was Seneca who said something along the lines of...there's no point going on holiday to escape your life, because you take yourself with you.
AF2 is not designed to do anything that AF doesn't do. It's just intended to do some things better. Some people may prefer AF - and that's fine by me.
Thank you again
-- I hope my English is good enough :-) --
"More to remember" = resistance to not taking on too much
"Worse at remembering" = resistance to perfect recall
;)
+ helps to remember things
+ helps to overcome inner resistance (a.k.a procrastination)
+ helps to structure my thoughts
+ helps get more clarity
Thank you, Mark!