Tasks and tiredness
Tired, today.
As in, ask Kendra if I can have 10 minutes to have a nap at 4:10 pm type of tired. (It's amazing how refreshing/inspiring that can be.)
Still, tomorrow at 4:45 am I'll be up to start a 2-day trip to Vancouver to help facilitate a design sprint. Which means tonight, I don't have a lot of energy or time for #CreatingDaily. And still, I will.
Here's what I want to share.
I recently created a system on my wall for sorting through tasks. But it's not the system I want to tell you about, it's three shifts in my thinking about tasks.
There's a category I have called "How long will it take?" I use it to help estimate the time needed for any given job. After the standard intervals (2 mins, 30 mins, 1 hour, 1 hour+) comes a new post-it, with these options:
A day, a week, a month
A year
Many years
A career's time
A lifetime
A generation
An age
It's my reminder that some things are worth pursuing even if they can't fit into a workslot.
Next, there's an area called "What type of work?," which is…
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