In Getting Things Done, David Allen discusses context around certain tasks. Use Labels and Reminders aggressively to provide context This lowers the barrier to entry and reduces the number of “excuse vectors” - the number of different ways you could make excuses for not achieving your goal.
It’s already in your task management app, ready for you. It keeps me honed into the goal’s original purpose and focused on the week ahead.īy having this all planned out in advance you will never say “Oh no, I forgot to pack my gym back so I can’t go to the gym” or “I’ve had to get McDonald’s today because I hadn’t made lunch!”. This could be in the form of a journal or a comment I put against the task. Incorporating some Getting Things Done principles, I’ve created a recurring task to review the progress of this goal. I’ve also made sure to have a task that can be chalked off every day to make sure I’m always chipping away at my goal. Notice I have taken full advantage of recurring tasks by creating individual work out tasks. For example, here is how I set up the “Gym” project. Using Todoists powerful recurring task functionality you can now create small tasks within each of these goal projects that is set to recur. In Todoist, you can create nested projects so I created a parent project of “Goals” and then child-projects for each goal I had. The first separate is to create a new project to separate your goal based tasks. Other apps you could do this with are Omnifocus, Notion, Things, Any.do and Microsoft Todo (formerly Wunderlist). Although this article is geared around Todoist, most task management/productivity type apps will have this. Now I’m going to dig into the specifics of how you can set your task manager up to work with your goals. Additionally, tasks have completion dates so you can set each of those segments against a date to check in with the goal you are attempting to achieve. Rather than go to the gym, I create tasks to go to the gym on certain days. This really aided me as it helped me apply the age-old advice of being specific and actionable with my goals. The idea of “task management” may begin to make your goal seem more like a chore but, on the other hand, it makes you think of the goal in more segmented achievable chunks. Whilst I’m sure that all those goal management apps have some useful feature, you might be interested to see how you could use Todoist (or indeed any task management app) to keep track of your goals. Instead, it would be right front and center. After all, it’s one of my most used applications so there is less likelihood of me forgetting about it on the back page of a folder.
But you know what, I don’t want an app! I began to consider using Todoist, my task management app for doing this. “There is always an app for that” is a phrase I heard repeatedly when I was looking at something to keep tabs on my goals, both short and long-term.
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