July 20th, 2007 in Productivity
Habit List Vs ToDo List
Mark Shead at Productivity501 has separated his regular todo’s from his ‘actual’ todo list. He’s talking about your day to day items that might obscure what you’re trying to achieve with your todo list.
“Habit” tasks tend to obscure the most important tasks that have to be done. The value of a habit, is measured over time–not just a particular day. Regular todo lists don’t allow for this. When your todo list is full of “habits” it is easy to get discouraged when you have a particularly busy day because the focus is on that day instead of your overall lifestyle.
Mark has also created a good looking chart for monitoring and scheduling your ‘habit tasks’. Well worth the look.
Habit List - [Productivity501]
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Rick L says on July 20th, 2007 at 10:13 am
In the past I’ve done something similar to this in my planner with great success. I recommend it. I would put letters in predefined spots at the bottom of each day’s page to indicate what habits I achieved that day. For example, ExPrVgFlReCf would mean that I Exercised, ate sufficient Protein and Vegetables, I Flossed, I Read, and I Called a friend.
Ben Franklin also had a nice variation on this for building habits of his 13 virtues.
franchise opportunity says on July 20th, 2007 at 8:38 pm
Interesting idea, but I think it really could work for a lot of people. I’m going to give it a try myself.
Philly Sheezteak says on July 22nd, 2007 at 11:18 pm
is that a program?
Event Calendar says on July 23rd, 2007 at 3:38 am
I’ve never really thought about actually defining some of my tasks as “habit” tasks, but I think this may actually help me prioritize some things. The other thing is that I usually write my tasks on paper still, does anyone else still use pen and paper?
billyk says on July 23rd, 2007 at 8:08 am
Hi
Lifehack was good a few months ago when you could click on your google feed and go straight to the article in lifehack.
The extra click now to go to the article seems to go against the ‘hack’ principles, and I can’t really be bothered.
bill
Leon says on July 23rd, 2007 at 11:44 am
@billyk: Do you mean you need a extra click to go to the actual resource? You are right – because the article is an external resource, but not our own article. However I believe the feed has the full post so you could click on the resource link directly.