The first day of the system I described yesterday went extremely well, as I described in the update at the end of the post.
Unfortunately today (Day 2) I discovered the logical flaw in the system, which I should have spotted before I started.
The flaw is that on Day 1, the first task on the list is a random task. It might be any degree of difficulty. The one I started with yesterday was an easy task. So my first pass through the list consisted of easy tasks.
But when I started on Day 2, the first task on the list was far from easy. The reason is that the day before I’d cleared out all the easy tasks at the front of the list, so it was bound to be quite difficult. And indeed it was one I was resisting quite a bit.
That meant that when I started on my first pass through the list today I found that I was doing nearly every task on the list. So instead of the fast easy passes I did the day before, I was labouring through the entire list and by the end of the working day hadn’t even completed one pass.
Back to the drawing board!