I realized that I had fallen off the writing wagon. I had become a non-writer.
That was really bothering me.
I sat down several times to write blog posts and wrote portions of them or huge rambling missives that went nowhere.
Soon it became clear that I needed a goal and to visualize it. It was pretty simple really. It looks like this
Two Goals Quickly Visualized
I wanted to make sure that I wrote blog posts and participated on Twitter. So I made a quick (ugly) chart over my done column on the board by my desk. It has the days of this week with two swim lanes – one for blogging and one for entering 3 tweets per day into Social Flow.
I then mark down how I felt about them when I was done. Overall, it was pretty good. No home runs there, but it was okay. (I’d make a big mouthed smiley for one I was really happy with).
What I’m doing here is quickly visualizing, rewarding, and evaluating a goal. Since they’re daily tasks, moving the stickies would be redundant and perhaps even annoying. But setting up a rapid feedback system helps immensely.
