Comments on: The “As-Soon-As-Possible” List http://wageslaverebel.com/the-as-soon-as-possible-list/ Lessons in Dismantling the Status Quo Wed, 29 Jun 2011 00:13:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Steve http://wageslaverebel.com/the-as-soon-as-possible-list/comment-page-1/#comment-2433 Steve Thu, 27 May 2010 19:34:44 +0000 http://wageslaverebel.com/?p=655#comment-2433 <p>You make some good points here. I have known many people that can't even do new years resolutions let alone bucket lists. It really does come down to procrastination. If you think that you have decades to finish your goals, you are going to put them off. This is especially true if those goals require a lot of energy in planning and effort to accomplish.</p> <p>.-= Steve´s last blog ..<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DoSomethingCool/~3/LUUk_Rwt28Q/six-ways-travel-endlessly" rel="nofollow">Six Ways to Travel Endlessly</a> =-.</p> You make some good points here. I have known many people that can’t even do new years resolutions let alone bucket lists. It really does come down to procrastination. If you think that you have decades to finish your goals, you are going to put them off. This is especially true if those goals require a lot of energy in planning and effort to accomplish.

.-= Steve´s last blog ..Six Ways to Travel Endlessly =-.

]]> By: Elke Gunst http://wageslaverebel.com/the-as-soon-as-possible-list/comment-page-1/#comment-1277 Elke Gunst Sun, 14 Feb 2010 21:02:25 +0000 http://wageslaverebel.com/?p=655#comment-1277 <p>My list is somewhere in between. Not short term. Not long term It is a 101things in 1001days list. To keep the pressure on I select one or more items each month that I want to check off the list (or at least, start working on) .-= Elke Gunst´s last blog ..<a href="http://www.inmyhands.net/2010/02/in-kader-van-themed-reizen/" rel="nofollow">in kader van themed-reizen</a> =-.</p> My list is somewhere in between. Not short term. Not long term It is a 101things in 1001days list. To keep the pressure on I select one or more items each month that I want to check off the list (or at least, start working on) .-= Elke Gunst´s last blog ..in kader van themed-reizen =-.

]]> By: Jeremy http://wageslaverebel.com/the-as-soon-as-possible-list/comment-page-1/#comment-1017 Jeremy Fri, 22 Jan 2010 19:07:22 +0000 http://wageslaverebel.com/?p=655#comment-1017 <p>Hey JD I agree, it's a good idea to have a to-list that focus on short term stuff. In fact I would say the todo list should only be stuff that you can do right now. But I think its still probably a good idea to have a list of long term goals and targets. Some things just take longer than a month to accomplish; like getting a degree or something.</p> <p>So what I have found works for me is have a list of long term goals, like your things you want to do before you die type of list, then create your "as-soon-as-possible" list based upon what is the next actionable step I can do right now to bring this goal to fruition.</p> <p>I do this weekly, as part of a weekly review, so I come up with a bunch of tasks I think I can fit into the week, based upon the what I want to do before I die list. And then at the end of each day, I actually block out time to work on each of these actions in my calendar for the next day. Which forces me to take action on these things.</p> <p>So It's like starting of with the high level goals and then chiseling them down into bite sized actionable pieces. The basic idea here is actually based upon Agile Software Development, or more specifically SCRUM.</p> <p>Having developed software for a long time, it seemed natural to me that Agile would be a great fit for lifestyle design so I started following the above process (just a couple of weeks ago, in fact) and so far the results have been quite exciting.</p> <p>The next tweak I'll be looking at is to try to determine the optimum number of projects to work on at once. Obviously we can't work on all 50 of our lifetime goals every week right? But can we do 10, or would 3 or 4 be a more productive number? I'm sure the answer lies somewhere in the trade off between the mental cost of task-switching versus the attention span / average productive on-task duration of an individual. I hope to find out for sure in a couple of weeks time, after testing on myself.</p> <p>By the way great blog. :)</p> Hey JD I agree, it’s a good idea to have a to-list that focus on short term stuff. In fact I would say the todo list should only be stuff that you can do right now. But I think its still probably a good idea to have a list of long term goals and targets. Some things just take longer than a month to accomplish; like getting a degree or something.

So what I have found works for me is have a list of long term goals, like your things you want to do before you die type of list, then create your “as-soon-as-possible” list based upon what is the next actionable step I can do right now to bring this goal to fruition.

I do this weekly, as part of a weekly review, so I come up with a bunch of tasks I think I can fit into the week, based upon the what I want to do before I die list. And then at the end of each day, I actually block out time to work on each of these actions in my calendar for the next day. Which forces me to take action on these things.

So It’s like starting of with the high level goals and then chiseling them down into bite sized actionable pieces. The basic idea here is actually based upon Agile Software Development, or more specifically SCRUM.

Having developed software for a long time, it seemed natural to me that Agile would be a great fit for lifestyle design so I started following the above process (just a couple of weeks ago, in fact) and so far the results have been quite exciting.

The next tweak I’ll be looking at is to try to determine the optimum number of projects to work on at once. Obviously we can’t work on all 50 of our lifetime goals every week right? But can we do 10, or would 3 or 4 be a more productive number? I’m sure the answer lies somewhere in the trade off between the mental cost of task-switching versus the attention span / average productive on-task duration of an individual. I hope to find out for sure in a couple of weeks time, after testing on myself.

By the way great blog. :)

]]> By: Traveling The Blogosphere December 2009 | Taking off Travel blog http://wageslaverebel.com/the-as-soon-as-possible-list/comment-page-1/#comment-953 Traveling The Blogosphere December 2009 | Taking off Travel blog Thu, 24 Dec 2009 10:02:49 +0000 http://wageslaverebel.com/?p=655#comment-953 <p>[...] Rebel provides a new take on the ‘bucket list’ made famous by the recent film. The As-Soon-As-Possible List urges us all to get off our butts and start doing some of those things on the list. JD says: A [...]</p> [...] Rebel provides a new take on the ‘bucket list’ made famous by the recent film. The As-Soon-As-Possible List urges us all to get off our butts and start doing some of those things on the list. JD says: A [...]

]]> By: J. D. Bentley http://wageslaverebel.com/the-as-soon-as-possible-list/comment-page-1/#comment-949 J. D. Bentley Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:11:50 +0000 http://wageslaverebel.com/?p=655#comment-949 <p>Dude, this is what I was looking for. Things seem so vague until you say "21 days, 30 minutes a day." Who can't do something for 30 minutes? It seems like so little, just 30 minutes per day. It really makes it all sound less overwhelming. I LOVE that. I'm rolling with it, starting today. Thanks, man!</p> Dude, this is what I was looking for. Things seem so vague until you say “21 days, 30 minutes a day.” Who can’t do something for 30 minutes? It seems like so little, just 30 minutes per day. It really makes it all sound less overwhelming. I LOVE that. I’m rolling with it, starting today. Thanks, man!

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