Re: Re[6]: OT sidetracked sisters

Hey Again Brenda,

I just came across this post on the AF list.  I thought I'd share it with
you as it kind of captures the typical feeling of people who just took a
breath and jumped into the system.  (The subject of the thread is "What
tweaks have you made to AF?")

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I have now completed two hard backed notebooks worth of tasks since starting
AF in December. That's well over 1500 tasks completed. My confidence has
soared. I am relaxed and on top of things despite doubling my workload in my
business and taking on extra projects in my spare time.

And I have carefully stuck to Mark's original instructions. Every
modification I tried killed the productivity.

The only 'tweak' I have is this:

If I have a task I really want to do now, I harness that motivation to
'power thru' my list as follows.

I enter the task at the end of the list as normal. Resisting the temptation
to just do it now.

I go back to my current location and power thru the pages doing just one
item from each page - the minimum allowed by Mark's instructions. If I can't
find one item on the page then I dismiss the page without thinking too much
about it. That rarely happens.

Mostly I pick an item that has a quick turn round. Do it. Cross it off. Move
to the next page and keep going. Soon I have reached my last page
legitimately and can do my happy task with a clear conscience. It feels
great.

It's like doing the AF on speed. Its amazing how stuff I've been resisting
gets done just because its the quickest way to get to the juicy task I
really want to do. I love it.

So I am just bending one of Mark's steps; the one where I check if there is
another task on the current page that is ready to be done after I have
crossed off the first one.

Otherwise I am sticking to the original process on paper. I am so afraid to
mess with the voodoo magic that works so well but I don't know why.

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I don't get that excited about my list ;-)  but I've seen so many people who
do!  LOL ;-)

Just for fun, some of the people on the Mark's forum have been posting
pictures to Flickr ... gad, people do love their Moleskines!  I've tried and
tried, but I can't see a $15 bound book for a To Do list!  LOL ;-)  Anyway,
you can see books and software and all kinds of tweaks with lines, boxes
filled in, tracking metrics and tags ... oh, just about anything imaginable
;-)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sarahmichelef/3404249811/in/photostream/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jonaz/3304749058/in/pool-autofocustimesystem/



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Cheers,
Mike


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