A Day with FVP
Wednesday, May 27, 2015 at 23:45 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
- “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 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.
Reader Comments (15)
- Completed a key request for funding document.
- Delegated and explained a task to a staff member. (Inventory analysis)
- Started reviewing the balance sheet
- Reviewed and followed up items waiting for from other people
- Delegated and explained another task to a different staff member (sales analysis)
- Released and authorize expenses. Approved various items requiring my approval
- Cleared emails marked as flagged for follow up
- Responded to my friend about my take on the movie "Birdman"
- Responded to blogs
That's awesome that you're reading the Bible in the original languages! I studied koine greek & hebrew at seminary but still struggle to read fluently.
Maybe put a task item of "refresh languages" on my FVP list!
http://www.youtube.com/user/bibledex/videos
He has lots of other interesting channels, one of the most famous being Numberphile.
http://www.bradyharan.com
<< That's awesome that you're reading the Bible in the original languages! I studied koine greek & hebrew at seminary but still struggle to read fluently. >>
Not so awesome. I read with an English crib for both languages. But I taught myself a lot just by doing that.
<< You might find Brady Haran's Bibledex video channel interesting >>
Thanks for that - very interesting. I liked the description of Judith as a James Bond girl!
I have tried out your new FVP system for a couple of days and so far it has been effective. The psychological ease of implementing the system and getting things done is astounding. Thank you for your work in this.
<< I did not realize you were a polyglot, Mark. That is great. >>
"Polyglot" would be two strong a word I think. The only language I have a good reading and speaking ability in is French. I could probably get by in Spanish or German if I had to, but that is all. The others are really just dabbling (though I take dabbling quite seriously).
<< I found it interesting that studying time management or productivity is not listed as a task. >>
The whole list is a study in time management and productivity.
Regarding projects like reading, do you find that approaching a task like reading the NT in Greek, it is better to define a task by length/material as opposed to time? For example, "read one chapter" as opposed to "read for 30 minutes."
Forgive the frivolous question as I am still an apprentice compared to others on this forum.
<< Regarding projects like reading, do you find that approaching a task like reading the NT in Greek, it is better to define a task by length/material as opposed to time? For example, "read one chapter" as opposed to "read for 30 minutes." >>
Normally I don't bother to define the length of a task like this when using FVP. I just do it for as long as I feel like doing it.
However in the specific case of the OT and NT I do it chapter by chapter for the simple reason that I am actually using audio files and they are each one chapter long.
Feel free to add more like this, please - suitably anonymised if necessary. I find it very inspiring! I'd be interested to see the results from your trialling of the "exciting" question.
<< I'd be interested to see the results from your trialling of the "exciting" question. >>
Don't expect any exciting answers!
For some examples of what I consider to be exciting see:
http://markforster.squarespace.com/fv-forum/post/2508019#post2508441