Here’s what I managed to do today using FVP. The tasks are in the order in which they are written on my list rather than the order I actually did them.
- Phone upgrade
- Reading in the Hadith
- “Penguin Book of Greek Verse”
- Voicemail
- Tidy Office
- Do the Dishes
- Make Tea
- Take Pills
- Check Diary
- Prayer
- Prayer
- Blood Pressure
- Breakfast
- Computer Housekeeping
- Lunch
- Push Ups
- Paper In-Tray
- Bring Wheelie Bin In
- “Harry Potter à l’école des sorciers”
- Website Comments
- Read Blogs
- Glossika French Day 29
- Prayer
- Record Weight
- Computer Housekeeping
- “The Iliad” (in Greek)
- Glossika French Day 29
- Computer Housekeeping
- Computer Housekeeping
- Email
- “Harry Potter à l’école des sorciers”
- Computer Housekeeping
- Push Ups
- Push Ups
- Computer Housekeeping
- “Harry Potter à l’école des sorciers”
- Email Backlog
- Email
- Email Backlog
- Glossika French Day 30
- Book of Genesis (in Hebrew) - one chapter
- Wash Up
- Gospel of Matthew (in Greek) - one chapter
- Book of Genesis (in Hebrew) - one chapter
- Glossika French Day 31
- Glossika French Day 32
- Book of Genesis (in Hebrew) - one chapter
- Gospel of Matthew (in Greek) - one chapter
- Email Backlog
- “Harry Potter à l’école des sorciers”
- Reading in the Hadith
- The Plank
- Find Mislaid Timer
- Write This Blog Post
One thing I’d like to draw attention to is the effectiveness of the system in hammering home projects which require cumulative repetion over a long period. There are several examples of this in the list. I’ll mention only two. “Harry Potter à l’école des sorciers” (the first volume of the Harry Potter series in French) had four sessions and there were three sessions of push ups. Keeping projects like these - reading, language training and fitness training - going day after day with multiple sessions per day really produces results and FVP is excellent at this.
By the way, the idea with the Harry Potter book is that once I’ve finished it in French, I’ll then use the French edition as a crib for the Spanish edition, then the Spanish edition as a crib for the Italian edition, then the Italian edition for the German edition, and the German edition for… who knows which language? Maybe Dutch, maybe Modern Greek. Russian might be too much of a stretch.
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