I’m thinking of making myself a set of daily check-in cards so I can ensure that some of my hard-earned lessons stay top of mind.

For example, I’d like to remember that I can focus on working on things instead of on getting them done.

My mind loves the idea of being done with something, of being able to drop it from my mental radar.

It loves the idea so much that if I can’t actually finish a task in the time I have to work on it today, it wants me to put the task aside until I can finish it in one go.

The problem, of course, is that most projects don’t work like that.

Part of the solution is to break my projects down more clearly in the first place but that’s not always possible AND doing part of a project doesn’t free me from the unconscious decision that I have to get the whole thing done.

So, I have had to keep learning the lesson that working on stuff means it gets done.

I wonder if having check-in cards that say something like ‘Have you tried working on it?’ would make the turn around time between lessons shorter?