101 postmort
Sep. 26th, 2015 08:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jazzfish1) Write up a postmortem on the previous 101 in 1001.
First off: $382.61. That is the end result of 100) Donate $10 to Planned Parenthood for each incomplete item on this list.
$382.61. Over a third of the items on the list unfinished.
Partial credit for items listed as X/Y, and I gave myself half credit for several more, so it's arguably even worse than that.
Oof.
To the left: over sixty percent of the list finished. So, yay.
What have I learned?
1) Items in the style of "Do this until the end of the 1001 days" are terrible. They give me zero sense of accomplishment and feel like an obligation hanging over my head. I've gotten rid of all of those for this round.
2) Items in the style of "Do this for a specified period of time" are frustrating. Did a thing for five months and then stumbled in the home stretch? Too bad, no checkmark for you. I've gotten rid of all of those too.
3) Items in the style of "Do this X times" work well, because there's incremental progress.
4) It's good to have a mix of things that are easy and short-term, easy and long-term, and hard in various aspects. I won't get all the hard things but I'll get some of them, which is more than I'd get otherwise.
5) Some individual notes:
First off: $382.61. That is the end result of 100) Donate $10 to Planned Parenthood for each incomplete item on this list.
$382.61. Over a third of the items on the list unfinished.
Partial credit for items listed as X/Y, and I gave myself half credit for several more, so it's arguably even worse than that.
Oof.
To the left: over sixty percent of the list finished. So, yay.
What have I learned?
1) Items in the style of "Do this until the end of the 1001 days" are terrible. They give me zero sense of accomplishment and feel like an obligation hanging over my head. I've gotten rid of all of those for this round.
2) Items in the style of "Do this for a specified period of time" are frustrating. Did a thing for five months and then stumbled in the home stretch? Too bad, no checkmark for you. I've gotten rid of all of those too.
3) Items in the style of "Do this X times" work well, because there's incremental progress.
4) It's good to have a mix of things that are easy and short-term, easy and long-term, and hard in various aspects. I won't get all the hard things but I'll get some of them, which is more than I'd get otherwise.
5) Some individual notes:
- Organizing is easy, as is money.
- People are hard, but not as hard as I'd expected.
- Writing is hard. No shock there.
- Gaming is hard. That does surprise me; a lot of factors went into it. (Also, did I really not play any video games at all? I guess not. Huh.)
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Date: 2015-09-27 02:46 pm (UTC)