Review week 51; goals, blog and GTD

On Sundays I’m looking back on the past week. How did I perform towards my goals? How did my blog do? And how am I keeping up with my Getting Things Done system and Zen to Done habits?

Blog performance

Yet another week without a lot of posts. I’m slowly getting back in the blogging routine, but it didn’t show last week. My day job demanded a lot of attention, because it was the last week of the year and there’s a lot of work to do in those weeks. 

There’s yet another rise in subscribers. Welcome to all of you! I’m not really closing in on my goal of 2500 but I love that you joined the growing group of Originals. I have been working on some activities to get more subscribers, but they are most likely not going to take place this year anymore. The deadline will probably pass without having the goal accomplished, but I’ll leave the 2500 mark up there and see how fast I can get there.

Progress towards goals

I decided that I only want one goal for every different state. That would still leave me with five goals at the same time and that’s enough. So I’m keeping the goals I think are most important for every state. I dropped the passive income goal, because it’s correlated with the subscriber goal. A bigger subscriber count gives more appeal to advertisers. And finishing the second floor is more important anyway. That goal needs to be finished to give me a home office from which I can operate my own business. The Emotional State is without goals at the moment, I’m thinking that one over before I decide what goal I’m going to put there.

You can see in the table below the ones that are accomplished, the ones that have been dropped and the ones that are left as goals. And with those remaining goals, there wasn’t a lot of progress. But I have vacation now until January 2, so I have time to work on goals!

Zen to Done / Getting Things Done - weekly review

I have been looking at a new system to manage my GTD. Since my PDA was stolen, I have been pondering whether I should buy a new one. I’ve decided against it and I’m looking for alternative solutions for managing my calender, managing my next actions and projects and managing my contacts. I’m inclined to go back to paper for the calender and the next actions, but I like the software solutions for contacts better.

The downside to going back to paper was shown in the home invasion too. My wife’s organizer was stolen too, and it really cost quite some time and effort to rebuild it. What surprised me was that she really writes her head empty. She couldn’t even recall what appointments she had for the first day of work. None of them! Now that’s trusting your system!

And a little productivity thing I’m testing with this post: I composed and published this post using Ecto. So far, I’m loving it. Another week of testing before I decide to buy it (you get 21 days of full functional trial).