Woohoo, I finally woke up before 7AM to get an early start on Day 4 of my 2016 Groundhog Day Resolution Challenge! Today I’m building on the work from yesterday’s point value list, which identified “tasks that contribute to my goals”, for the design of a Groundhog Day Resolutions Tracker based on my old concrete goals tracker form. While I am getting a little antsy about not having it done yet for actual goals, I think the progress I made today is still pretty cool. Read onward for some more about how the tool might work; keep in mind this is a work in progress! (more…)

It’s Day 3 of my 2016 Groundhog Day Resolution Challenge. Still pacing myself, though I’m feeling a little antsy to really get moving. I’ve been taking the time to design a goal tracker for this year, based on my old concrete goals tracker. Today’s post picks up from yesterday, when I largely just did concept outlining (more…)

It’s Day 2 of my 2016 Groundhog Day Resolution Challenge, and I’m starting it off pretty slow. There are a number of tasks I have to handle, and so I’m taking a bit of advice from myself to “embrace slowness” rather than “pursue speediness”. I scoped the work for today as designing a “Groundhog Day Resolutions Tracker” based on my old concrete goals tracker, which is the first productivity form I ever made. There’s a lot of things I like about it, and to this day its principles guide me in all my productivity-focused decision making. (more…)