FV and FVP Forum > Switching from FVP-Q to FFVP
A question... Do you have to look back at the previous dotted task every single time? In FVP-Q you don't, and I hate having to flip through pages and searching for the last dotted task.
March 15, 2018 at 2:17 |
james220
james220
james220:
Basically the answer is only when you find it necessary. If that's all the time, fine. If that's never, that's fine too.
Personally I find it important to be aware what is dotted earlier in the list, but not to keep looking at it unless I feel I need reminding.
Basically the answer is only when you find it necessary. If that's all the time, fine. If that's never, that's fine too.
Personally I find it important to be aware what is dotted earlier in the list, but not to keep looking at it unless I feel I need reminding.
March 15, 2018 at 8:51 |
Mark Forster
Mark Forster
james220:
I've struggled with the same problem - "having to flip through pages... searching for the last dotted task" - and I have a few suggestions.
One, make your dots stand out. You have to experiment until you find a way that works. (I have a squared grid notebook and the first column is only for dots. To mark them off I put a simple line through them so that dots continue to stand out.)
Two, if you dot an item that's far from the end of the list, immediately cross it off and rewrite it at the end of the list and dot it. Do this liberally.
Three, routinely [daily or weekly] weed the end of the list by marking the five oldest items with an X and one by one either...
1. Kill it. If you're afraid you'll lose it put it on a kill list in the back of your book.
2. Move it to the end of the list *if it's something you intend to do in the next few days*.
3. Schedule it on your calendar if it's something you know you will or must do, but NOT in the next few days.
For me, this is critical: do not let items get stranded far from the end of the list. Thinking in terms of "the next few days", and making dotted items stand out (beckoning me to do them), helps prevent stranding.
I've struggled with the same problem - "having to flip through pages... searching for the last dotted task" - and I have a few suggestions.
One, make your dots stand out. You have to experiment until you find a way that works. (I have a squared grid notebook and the first column is only for dots. To mark them off I put a simple line through them so that dots continue to stand out.)
Two, if you dot an item that's far from the end of the list, immediately cross it off and rewrite it at the end of the list and dot it. Do this liberally.
Three, routinely [daily or weekly] weed the end of the list by marking the five oldest items with an X and one by one either...
1. Kill it. If you're afraid you'll lose it put it on a kill list in the back of your book.
2. Move it to the end of the list *if it's something you intend to do in the next few days*.
3. Schedule it on your calendar if it's something you know you will or must do, but NOT in the next few days.
For me, this is critical: do not let items get stranded far from the end of the list. Thinking in terms of "the next few days", and making dotted items stand out (beckoning me to do them), helps prevent stranding.
March 15, 2018 at 18:31 |
Zane
Zane
Mark Forster:
I've been trying something out that is similar to your advice. I have only been flipping back to check when I "feel like it". This has pretty much eliminated all of my resistance to this system. Everything is going great!
I've been trying something out that is similar to your advice. I have only been flipping back to check when I "feel like it". This has pretty much eliminated all of my resistance to this system. Everything is going great!
March 16, 2018 at 1:41 |
james220
james220
Zane:
<< Two, if you dot an item that's far from the end of the list, immediately cross it off and rewrite it at the end of the list and dot it. Do this liberally. >>
If you do this you are getting very far away from the concept of FVP. There's nothing necessarily wrong with that of course. But you need to be aware that you are using an entirely different system.
<< Two, if you dot an item that's far from the end of the list, immediately cross it off and rewrite it at the end of the list and dot it. Do this liberally. >>
If you do this you are getting very far away from the concept of FVP. There's nothing necessarily wrong with that of course. But you need to be aware that you are using an entirely different system.
March 17, 2018 at 0:12 |
Mark Forster
Mark Forster
Some things I have noticed:
* I work through the list MUCH faster
* I work on the important things as well as the things that I enjoy
* I work "littler" and "oftener"