I thought I was lazy, then that I'm not doing enough. Yet in the last year I made a huge progress with work and side projects.
I noticed a couple years ago that despite doing a lot of what seemed as an important work, I didn't see where my time goes. I didn't get closer to buying a car or launching successful business.
So I started from simple things: writing tasks on paper and checking them off.
But I wrote too much, it wasn't realistic.
I started writing less, I completed the tasks. But results were still random: I didn't have big plan, like in Jira where you go from big goal, to smaller tasks to subtasks.
I tried to create mood boards, but that wasn't enough.
I tried to write big ambitious goals, but it still didn't click with what I do daily -- it was too hard to make the connection between something at scale and my todo list.
Then I slowly found the rhythm I liked: wrote plans per year, then went from them to months, splitting monthly tasks between weeks (or at least focusing on what the tasks of month were) and further.
And that worked A LOT better with mood board and big dream goals! Because year achievements are much bigger and it's a lot more realistic to move closer towards the outcome you like in a year, than in a week.
This way helped me to launch 4 side projects along my freelance work, I started a blog. I finally started noticing results, even if not too big at first. But I understood I had time for what I liked. I just needed a better system.
Hobonichi planner helped a bit with this. But also an app, which had the whole system I described.
Have you tried such way of planning? Or how do you get closer to your big goals?
