Lately I’ve been moving around, without knowing if I made progress. I developed this new form to help keep me focused on achievement. It may look like a Scantron, but it has theory behind it.

Dealing with Challenges

My most pressing challenge was that I was feeling unfocused and didn’t know if I was getting anywhere. I had forms that were supposed to help me be focused, but I wasn’t using them. Here are the reasons why this will work better:

• Keeping Track of Details: In the past, other forms had me keep track of details, such as time and the specific task. While useful to know, it was also very tedious and generally demotivating to do. The result was I didn’t

A combination of being busy, lazy, and distracted has led me to neglect my productivity system. I need to regroup, reform, and rebuild. Do first the things that I set out to do, then I can allow myself to wander.

What’s Been Going On

I have accepted that I cannot create a perfect system in an uncertain world, so I will naturally let disorder take over if I let it. To account for my imperfections, I must understand how things have changed.

A few months ago, when I was really building steam with my productivity hobby, I was on a fairly regular schedule. I went to work early in the morning (7 AM) and came home early (3-5 PM). This allowed a good portion of my waking hours to be devoted… Continue reading

In RPGs, every action has a corresponding experience value (exp). As your experience points accumulate, you are easily able to see your progress and understand how much more you need to reach the next level. Wanting this ability for myself, I made a way to calculate experience in the real world.

How It Works

There are four categories by which I calculate real experience points for actions: excitement, ability to share with others, options you gain by doing, and… Continue reading

When searching for methods to improve the other things I do, I am alone, lacking context and definition. When I search for methods because it is what I do, then I have purpose. Realizing I am a productivity hobbyist gives meaning to what I do.

After realizing that I am a productivity hobbyist, I did a search and found an article on lifehacker, which speaks poorly of the hobby, but hear me out…

The Custom System

I started getting the notion that I am a productivity hobbyist while thinking about car hobbyists and computer hobbyists (being tangential to both worlds). If you ever enter into these worlds, you will rarely find these individuals with the same item (be it car or computer), straight from the factory, discussing how great it is… Continue reading