Clarity comments on Goal setting journal (November) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Clarity 20 November 2015 08:03:26AM *  0 points [-]
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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 20 November 2015 02:24:25PM 8 points [-]

I suggest just choosing one or two goals, probably from the easier and more specific goals, and then doing them.

I was surprised to find for myself that having a really fast moving imagination can be a problem.

Comment author: Viliam 22 November 2015 08:40:08PM 4 points [-]

I was surprised to find for myself that having a really fast moving imagination can be a problem.

Same here. One problem with accomplishing my goals is that I am too good at inventing new ones. So it's difficult to stay focused on one goal as long as is necessary to complete it. It's rare to have a goal that feels so important that even weeks later it is still a priority #1.

Comment author: Elo 22 November 2015 10:22:23AM 2 points [-]

Can you predict how many hours each of these tasks will take you to complete? (probably easier to edit and add on estimates like "5hrs", "30mins" etc.)

Comment author: Clarity 23 November 2015 06:25:55AM *  0 points [-]

The effort taken to formaly estimate that would exceed the time to complete some of these tasks

Comment author: Elo 23 November 2015 10:00:42AM 0 points [-]

have you tried ordering your to-do list by the length of time it takes to complete things?

Comment author: Clarity 24 November 2015 03:22:43AM 0 points [-]

nope, can't be bothered. Seems unnecessary

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 25 November 2015 01:35:27PM 0 points [-]

A rough ordering by amount of time needed is actually very important. I'm not saying you need to be accurate within 10%, but having some idea of what's likely to take minutes, an hour, a lot of hours, weeks, or months is the only way you can tell whether you're likely to achieve a goal-- or make progress toward it--- in a given chunk of time.

Comment author: Clarity 28 November 2015 02:33:08AM *  1 point [-]

I'll give it a try. I have updated my original post.

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