Discussion Forum > Dismissal - An opportunity to grow?
Well for one I've never followed that rule for DWM, I only dismiss and never delete unactioned items more than a month old. Each of the pages older than one month I have a diagonal line from lower left to upper right to indicate that it is a dismissed page. I also have an item in my DWM that says "Review dismissed" to re-introduce dismissed items into DWM if needed be as new tasks.
However, I am happy to report that I have no unactioned items older than 20 days, and I have no dismissed items since I started DWM2 more than a month ago. Remelsbach for tasks more than a week old really gets those pesky old items real good.
However, I am happy to report that I have no unactioned items older than 20 days, and I have no dismissed items since I started DWM2 more than a month ago. Remelsbach for tasks more than a week old really gets those pesky old items real good.
June 17, 2014 at 17:12 |
nuntym
nuntym
Hi Nuntym
<< Well for one I've never followed that rule for DWM, >>
Hm, I find that rule is (psychologically) key... for me anyway.
Anybody else?
<< Well for one I've never followed that rule for DWM, >>
Hm, I find that rule is (psychologically) key... for me anyway.
Anybody else?
June 17, 2014 at 17:18 |
avrum
avrum
This happens to me a lot, although I don't formally dismiss things if I know I'll get back to them when the current crunch is over. Grabbing all the ones I remember doing before and getting them all going at once doesn't work.
After the current crunch and then vacation, I'm going to try a variation of Spinning Plates to get things going again.
After the current crunch and then vacation, I'm going to try a variation of Spinning Plates to get things going again.
June 17, 2014 at 18:07 |
Cricket
Cricket
Since my current MoT system –
http://markforster.squarespace.com/forum/post/2316266
– works in the spirit of SMEMA –
http://markforster.squarespace.com/blog/2013/3/7/the-simplest-and-most-effective-method-of-all.html
– I don't really have any formal dismissal. But I do maintain physical and virtual tickler files –
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tickler_file
– and find that it's a great way to defer a task or project or idea to consider that, while perhaps important, isn't urgent. Rather than maintaining a bunch of items on a list that you aren't actioning, just "mail them to yourself " so that each will arrive at some future date for reconsideration. There are probably many other clever ways to do this, for those who don't use a tickler file. The essential thing is to get them off your list and out of your conscious mind for now.
http://markforster.squarespace.com/forum/post/2316266
– works in the spirit of SMEMA –
http://markforster.squarespace.com/blog/2013/3/7/the-simplest-and-most-effective-method-of-all.html
– I don't really have any formal dismissal. But I do maintain physical and virtual tickler files –
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tickler_file
– and find that it's a great way to defer a task or project or idea to consider that, while perhaps important, isn't urgent. Rather than maintaining a bunch of items on a list that you aren't actioning, just "mail them to yourself " so that each will arrive at some future date for reconsideration. There are probably many other clever ways to do this, for those who don't use a tickler file. The essential thing is to get them off your list and out of your conscious mind for now.
June 17, 2014 at 18:11 |
ubi
ubi
ubi et al.
It's all these tasks that one puts on one's todo list which one never gets round to which are stifling your productivity.
As I've said before, the DWM system was based on BBC iPlayer - unfortunately unobtainable outside the United Kingdom as far as I know - in which the programs can be downloaded onto your PC or Smartphone etc for 30 days, but once you start watching a program you only have 7 days before it's deleted automatically.
Once the program's gone - it's gone. There's no way of getting it back - ever!
It's all these tasks that one puts on one's todo list which one never gets round to which are stifling your productivity.
As I've said before, the DWM system was based on BBC iPlayer - unfortunately unobtainable outside the United Kingdom as far as I know - in which the programs can be downloaded onto your PC or Smartphone etc for 30 days, but once you start watching a program you only have 7 days before it's deleted automatically.
Once the program's gone - it's gone. There's no way of getting it back - ever!
June 21, 2014 at 1:08 |
Mark Forster
Mark Forster
Mark:
<<the DWM system was based on BBC iPlayer>>
Renting movies from iTunes works in a similar way.
I love how you were able to extrapolate the assembly line idea from the BBC to DWM. Great stuff.
<<the DWM system was based on BBC iPlayer>>
Renting movies from iTunes works in a similar way.
I love how you were able to extrapolate the assembly line idea from the BBC to DWM. Great stuff.
June 21, 2014 at 16:30 |
avrum
avrum
<<All tasks which are on pages earlier than today’s date have expired. They are dead, done for, dismissed, deceased.>>
But I think there's an opportunity to learn/grow from dismissal. Sometimes tasks expire because they are no longer relevant. But often times it's good ol' resistance i.e. the tasks/projects that are most important to us are the one's we avoid (Pressfield, Sher, etc).
Also, DWM doesn't address how to reintroduce dismissed tasks - at least in an official way. I'd be curious to know how people handle this.