As I said in my previous post: I found myself losing time that can be avoided. And recently I found some reasons:

  • I don’t know how to continue with the story I’m working with.
  • I wander through the code for a long time to find what to do next.
  • I do things that are not very relevant.

All of them are caused by not having enough perspective of where I am, where I need to go and what steps make sense.

In the getting things done method you need to keep in mind about your goals at different levels:

  • current actions
  • current projects
  • areas of responsibility
  • 1-2 year goals
  • 3-5 year goals
  • Life

Although I had in mind the intermediate horizons until now, I’m lacking in the rest. It’s time to change that and improve on my perspective of the current actions.

edit: An example of those current actions could be the journal of week 8th May