Hober is a connoisseur of lifehacking, and has been Twittering about personal unit tests, so I decided to give it a try.
If you don’t know what that means, I’ll translate:
My friend Ted, like me, works from home and, like me, finds that what he wants to accomplish in a day is different from what actually gets done. The personal unit test is his new strategy for managing daily existence. It’s part accountability, part incentive, and part progress tracking/reflection fodder.
The trick to writing your goals is that it’s not about accomplishing stuff, per se, but more about daily activity. So, instead of “I want to blog more often,” the test is “Pass if I blogged yesterday.” Bam. Just like that, I plan to be flossing daily, blogging daily, and going to sleep every night without a big pile of questionably clean clothes at the foot of my bed.
Results will be posted and twittered.
I will probably recap the San Diego Mexican Food Eating Tour this week (when I run out of things to blog about), but I will say that I had been taking for granted how dark it is here, but that’s over now. Also, amazingly, we came home to a house that was 47 degrees (!) and STILL managed to smell like the Indian food we cooked two months ago. Terrifying.
Yay.