Yesterday’s blog post generated quite a few comments, and they have helped me to set myself the following short-term aims:
- Finish painting the Russian gun crews that have been sitting half finished on my work table. They can then be used to help form a couple more ‘formations in a box’.
- Finish play-testing my Operation Barbarossa mini-campaign. I have one large battle to fight ... and this should enable me to complete this project.
- Add the place names to the new, colour version of the Madasahatta map.
These are my current short-term aims. I hope that whilst I am working to achieve them, I will be able to formulate some more long-term ones.
.jpg)
That's a sensible sized to-do list. I need to create something similar myself!
ReplyDeleteMaudlin Jack Tar,
DeleteCheers! I decided that a short, easy to achieve set of aims was the best way to start.
All the best,
Bob
Tiny, tickable targets as they say. Great plans that will help you I’m sure.
ReplyDeleteTradgardmastare,
DeleteIt seemed to me to be the best way to start. In fact, I’ve already begun work on painting my Russian gunners ... and with luck they should be finished by the middle of the week.
All the best,
Bob
Hello BOb,
ReplyDeleteGreat to see that you have come up with a rather short list of things to attend to- these small steps will help keep production going and stop interest from flagging. Regards. KEV.
Kev Robertson (Kev),
DeleteAfter giving it some considerable thought, I decided to start with a short list, knowing that by doing so I was more likely to achieve significant results quickly.
All the best,
Bob
From my time working in the field of organisation behaviour, I agree that short term goals are best. It is the old adage about eating an elephant - you can do it but it just needs cutting into pieces first. Each goal achieved gives you the spur to move onto the next one. Faced with slow or no progress, I often find considering the following question helpful:
ReplyDelete1. Am I clear what I want to achieve?
2. Is achieving the goal important to me, and relatively more important than other goals?
3. Do I feel confident that I can achieve my goal - time, skills, right support etc?
Cheers
Simon
Simon,
DeleteThanks for the very helpful advice. It’s the sort approach that I need to adopt.
All the best,
Bob
May I suggest being a tad more adventurous Bob. Your initial list is more of an immediate to-do or shopping list. How about aims (or targets) to be achieved in 6, 12, 24 and 36 months time? The shorter timeframe goals could be stepping stones on the way to achieving large and longer term goals. Cheers Greg
ReplyDeletep.s. I still have solving world hunger on my 5 year goal list.
Delta Coy (Greg),
DeleteThe way I feel at the moment, I want to see how setting a few short-term goals works before going the whole hog.
The sort of long-term aims that I have in mind include my Eastern Front/Great Patriotic War project and a late nineteenth century imagi-nations project.
All the best,
Bob
I have found it very useful, after all these years in a professional business capacity, to resurrect using Outlook (or anything similar if you prefer)and listing my projects, ideas, tasks, to-do's etc and displaying the calendar permanently on my laptop. Cos you see, along with my mother (now deceased) I share a characteristic the grand-daughters/nieces called CRS (Can't Remember Sh*t. This gave then endless entertainment possibilities including gifts emblazened with slogans such as "Have mercy, CRS sufferer" etc. Hang in there, no epidemic around when all that started about 15 years ago, akthough CRS seems to be it's own epidemic... Arthur
ReplyDeleteArthur,
DeleteThanks for the suggestions. I used to keep a sort of list of projects in a notebook that I kept by my computer ... but at some point, it was thrown away or lost.
I’ll have a look at Outlook as a possible replacement. Either that, or buy a new notebook.
All the best,
Bob