How often do your days go exactly according to plan?
🔥 Every day?
👍 Once a week?
🤞 Once a month?
🚫 …Never?
My answer is close to “Never”—but I still get important work done.
How is that possible?
🔥 Every day?
👍 Once a week?
🤞 Once a month?
🚫 …Never?
My answer is close to “Never”—but I still get important work done.
How is that possible?
🩸 An Agenda is not a Blood Oath 🩸
My daily workflow has two parts: Agenda & Log.
Agenda = “What do I want to do?”
Log = “What am I doing?”
Those are two different questions, and it’s perfectly okay if the answers are different, too.
My daily workflow has two parts: Agenda & Log.
Agenda = “What do I want to do?”
Log = “What am I doing?”
Those are two different questions, and it’s perfectly okay if the answers are different, too.
Every day brings interruptions. Every day brings new work you didn’t see coming—and some of it is time-sensitive.
So what if your Agenda doesn’t account for it?
👉 Your Log will!
Why is that helpful?
So what if your Agenda doesn’t account for it?
👉 Your Log will!
Why is that helpful?
We take our productivity personally. When we don’t complete our Agenda, we see it as a personal failure.
And worse, because we don’t LIKE to fail…
🚨 Sometimes we won’t plan at all! 🚨
After all—we reason, poorly—what’s the point of planning if it’s only going to change?
And worse, because we don’t LIKE to fail…
🚨 Sometimes we won’t plan at all! 🚨
After all—we reason, poorly—what’s the point of planning if it’s only going to change?
When we plan our Agenda, we set our future self up for success. We confirm the direction we want to go.
When we track in our Log, we acknowledge that our past self can’t foresee everything. We give permission to work on what needs attention now, under new circumstances.
When we track in our Log, we acknowledge that our past self can’t foresee everything. We give permission to work on what needs attention now, under new circumstances.
And when we complete work (that is tracked in our Log), we can return to our Agenda and decide where to pick up. The plan may adapt, but it still guides and directs us.
Planning is essential. Adapting is essential.
An Agenda and a Log gives you tools to do both.
Planning is essential. Adapting is essential.
An Agenda and a Log gives you tools to do both.
If you’d like to learn more about how I implement an Agenda and a Log in @RoamResearch, check out my course AP Productivity:
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