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What is Your System?

Discussion in 'Tilted Life and Sexuality' started by genuinemommy, May 9, 2013.

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  1. cynthetiq

    cynthetiq Administrator Staff Member Donor

    Location:
    New York City
    My system is simple:

    I plan.
    I look as far ahead of schedule as possible. I try to put things together that make sense to do together and bundle together. I look at risks and figure out how to mitigate those risks. Sometimes I can mitigate them all, other times I cannot and have to plan to change my plans. Many people do not plan at all.

    I prepare.
    I get things ready. I think of it as "mis en place." Watch a cooking show to understand what this means. Everything is ready and in place so that when you need to use it, it's there and you don't think about it, you just use it. I get the tools ready, books, programs, money, resources, whatever it is. Many people are not ever prepared. If they are it's very little preparation.

    I execute.
    I then follow my plan and grab what was prepared to help with the execution.

    Post Mortem.
    After it's over, I look to see if there is something that could have been done better or even prepared better for next time.
     
    cynthetiq, May 13, 2013
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  2. Tully Mars

    Tully Mars Very Tilted

    Location:
    Yucatan, Mexico
    I can no longer do the booze section but I'm hopeful that's temporary. But the lack of a system and coffee are my system as well. I usually wake up around 0430 or 0500 and drink a couple large cups of very dark roast while deciding what if anything to tackle later on in the day.
     
    Tully Mars, May 13, 2013
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  3. grumpyolddude

    grumpyolddude Very Tilted

    Location:
    Metro Detroit, Michigan, USA
    I never intended to give the impression that I thought that of you. Everyone has to approach life on their own terms. I just know that I have to keep things a little more casual or I will become uptight and won't even notice that there even are roses, let alone take time to smell them.
     
    grumpyolddude, May 13, 2013
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  4. Raghnar

    Raghnar Getting Tilted

    I was not mocking your way of systemize things. I was simply saying that I like my life more random. I don t have even a standard wake up hour, yesterday I wake up at 6, today at 8.30, tomorrow I don't have the fainteist idea. I like my life that way for now. No work or workout schedule or system, just a plan and a flow.

    The only systems I have are for very exoteric staff about my work or activities: how I read a paper, how I program some code, how I plot data...etc... how I set up a sport picture...but I would not call that system, sometimes is simply skill.

    Moreover, Regarding food, I'm Italian, I'm good in two things making love and making food. Systemize my food gestures to do something in between or do it faster, seems to me like systemize my bed life for the same purpose! :p But that's MY system and my culture, that is obvious doesn't work for anyone.
     
    Last edited: May 14, 2013
    Raghnar, May 14, 2013
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  5. genuinemommy

    genuinemommy Moderator Staff Member

    genuinemommy, May 14, 2013
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  6. Split Brain Blues

    Split Brain Blues Vertical

    Location:
    True North Strong And Free
    I have found Seinfeld's 'don't break the chain' method to be helpful in terms of creative output. Basically, if you do a little bit on any given day, you put an X on the calendar. The more you do it, the more you get used to putting X's on the calendar. After awhile, it becomes about not breaking the chain of X's and the project is the byproduct.

    Simple but it seems to do the trick for me.
     
    Split Brain Blues, May 31, 2013
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  7. genuinemommy

    genuinemommy Moderator Staff Member

    Oh yes!!!
    The satisfaction of putting an "X" on the calendar every day really helped me get through my first year of grad school. Maybe I should pick that up again for my last year. I like that. Thank you for reminding me of an awesome system!
     
    genuinemommy, May 31, 2013
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  8. Split Brain Blues

    Split Brain Blues Vertical

    Location:
    True North Strong And Free
    No problem. It was the 'lifehacker' site that introduced me to it. Lots of useful information there.
     
    Split Brain Blues, Jun 1, 2013
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  9. absorbentishe

    absorbentishe Vertical

    Location:
    T O L E D O
    Personally, I can only front load my morning the night before. Shower, lay clothes out then bed. No matter how hard I try, I can't seem to get out of bed any sooner than I have to!

    Now that we have a baby in the house, I thought planning would improve, but to no avail. When I take the kids to the gym is really the only daily plan we have. Other than that, it's sort of whichever way the wind blows. Things I'd like to do, but it never materializes.
     
    absorbentishe, Aug 3, 2013
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  10. curiousbear

    curiousbear Terse & Bizarre

    At work : everything is planned, tracked , organised. Tell me any date/time in past 10 years I can tell what I was working on. Yes I am serious. What needs to be done in next 3 months by me and my team members is all laid out. Table is clean. Files arranged.

    Home: table full of junk. Anything I need I have to search and find. I slip due date for utilities etc at least once in. 3 months.

    Yes I am hypocrite

    :(
     
    curiousbear, Oct 10, 2013
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