Planning and executing

Yesterday, I got on the planning horse again and attempted to ride.  All in all, I did pretty well, at least for the first day. Today, I'm doing even better.

I was on the planning horse before, recently, and wrote about the practice that I intended to follow in some blog post that I can't easily find. Or maybe I wrote it in a doc and didn't post it. Whatever. I abandoned the metaplan after a day or two. My new version of the practice is a little bit more lightweight. And I am doing a better job of keeping track of time and adding things to the plan before I do them.

The basic idea:

> Make a plan
Do what's on the plan
Don't do stuff that's not on the plan. (Add it to the plan, then do it, if you must)
Track your start and end time
Note things that you did without putting them on the plan
Review things regularly

I've now decided that whenever I log time that I will also take a moment, wake up, and put a special symbol next to the time stamp. I believe that one change will more than pay for the overhead of tracking things.

It's 1:11 right now. I will update this post at least once, at the end of the day, report how it's gone, and what I've learned.