Lenten Challenge 2023
Friday, February 17, 2023 at 12:35 This year’s Lenten Challenge starts on Wednesday 22nd February and ends on Thursday 6th April, both dates inclusive.
The challenge is to keep to the same time management system for the whole period. You can enter the challenge by nominating which system you are going to follow in the Comments below. The system does not have to be one of mine. You can change your entry up until the start date (your local time).
This is not intended to imply, include or exclude any religious belief whatever.
Entries:
Mark Forster: Halving
Caibre 65: Simple New System
Ian S: Dreams/No List
eiron: Prioritised Shuffling
Alan Banjeu: LAPS
Seraphim: Randomizer Execute/Explore Variant
Pablo: Simple Scanning
Kohl: AF4+3T
Brenda: Timed Bursts with Rotating List
Jacqueline: Simple New System
Aaron Hsu: Frog and Chain
Colin: Make Time (Knapp + Zeratsky) + Resistance Zero
Margaret 1: Serial No List
David: Dreams
Eric SP: DIT
Mike Brown: Ultra Simple Guide to Time Management
Paul MacNeil: Simple Scanning
Ryan Freckleton: Resistance Zero
Tobba: Random RAF
vegheadjones: Persona Kanban feeding into 3T
Ville: DIT
Will Ross: FVP (late entry 28 Feb)
Fintan: DIT (late entry 1 Mar)
Ed Z: Elastic AF (late entry 4 Mar)
Reader Comments (36)
Please put me down for AF2ND.
IanS
I have had a little go with it and made some tweaks, but I will try to use it in its current form for the duration of the challenge unless I can see that there is a clear bug causing it not to prioritise the right things at the right times.
It’s a short-list system (not a long list, nor a no-list) with some planning elements in it. I may discuss more in the forum.
This is based on Randomizer but with pages grouped for "execute"-type tasks (simple tasks, recurring tasks, things with deadlines) and "explore"-type tasks (reading, open-ended projects, ideas, and "execute"-type things that need to be unstuck).
It's kind of fluid at the moment, and not much else to say yet, but I intend to stick with it for awhile and see where it goes.
http://markforster.squarespace.com/blog/2014/1/22/random-time-management.html
I intend to do the challenge in emacs org-mode using the 3 tasks method fed by an autofocus 4 list as elucidated here:
http://markforster.squarespace.com/blog/2010/11/7/the-rules-by-which-i-ran-the-demo.html
So: AF4+3T.
Wishing everyone a clarifying and productive challenge.
Could you alter my choice to Austin’s “Simple new system “
Thank you.
I've been doing an Unstructured AF1 in a weekly page Hobonichi for several years now. Look forward to something new for a change.
For my own entry, I think I'm going to try a new approach I'm building around Eat the Frog. I think I like calling it the Frog and Chain system. I just started it, so I think I'll try to see if I can use it through Lent as a test of its "staying power".
Only just caught this in time!
<< I enjoy watching Mark's choice shift from day to day. :) >>
Trying them on for size!
I'm going with (Seraphim's) Serial No List, possibly using 3T (3 Tasks system) to process it.
For the first three weeks of the challenge I'll be in my normal environment with a lot of discretionary time, but for the second three weeks I'll be in a much more pressurised environment with less discretionary time. If I had six weeks in my normal environment I would have been more adventurous and happy to experiment with something different, such as AF4/3T, which I didn't try out first time round, but during the second three weeks I need a system with minimal overhead and very little compulsion to follow set processing algorithms. (This is not a criticism of any system - usually I love the gamification of following algorithms - but I know from my experience so far that in pressurised periods I don't have the bandwidth).
Good luck to everyone.
Mark, please sign me up for 'Dreams', possibly with a side-order of SoPP/no-list…
[Any hints from experienced Dreamers will be gratefully received.]
Random Halving?
I'll go with Gerry's PDF instructions. The instructions allow for a 'hot list' of tasks, which could be satisfied by No-list with a rough sketch of the day ahead.
<< Random Halving? >>
I assume that's a question, rather than an entry. If I'm wrong, please let me know.
It refers to http://markforster.squarespace.com/blog/2021/8/24/a-new-random-method.html
I changed my entry to non-random Halving just before the clock struck midnight!
http://markforster.squarespace.com/forum/post/2690952
Personal Kanban feeding into 3T
Yes, a question.
Thank you for the answer.
<< But is it too late to take part? >>
I've put your entry on the list. It's a personal challenge not a competition, so no umpires!
It's that time of year again.
FWIW I'll be a relaxed FVP paper and pen (which means I won't be too concerned when I go off list) for the rest of Lent.
Nice to see people are still engaged.
Good luck, everyone!
Been developing a system I thought of since December last year I call Elastic AF, and finalized it more or less on February but then I got sick and hospitalized. Now I'm out and raring to use this method, it's pretty dope IMHO.
I would be interested to hear details about this, if you don‘t mind.
Sorry for the late reply, I have been meaning to answer back. However, I get tired easily lately because of my condition, and combined with my inability to think of a way to make it work on paper and pen (it is a strictly electronic system for now, on Obsidian) I kept on delaying my post.
With that I decided to just make a post of it in the General Forum titled "ElasticAF: a strictly electronic system" or some such in a day of two.
Moving back to Remember the Milk for my online task tracking, while still using pen and paper to scratch out a rough hourly schedule and no-list for each day. I was using this hybrid method before the Lenten Challenge to stay on top of stuff flying at me, while having some direction for the day. I liked it a lot.
Not sure what I'll do with all those pages. Perhaps they'll go into a notebook or perhaps I'll trash them and start fresh.