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We are going to tackle 2010 and our goals for 2010 head on. Quite possibly you’ve tried to achieve your goals previously. You’ve must have spent tons of time researching on the web and reading about those goals you want to achieve. In this initial step we will attack all those bits from previous failures to launch you’ve had and start assembling the information you have at hand in Evernote while applying some Getting things Done (GTD) rules.
This first post will be the shortest in my series. The purpose of this step is just to set up a trusted GTD system of collection in Evernote as well as collecting all the information you already have amassed which will assist you in achieving your goals and objectives with ease.
“A vision without a task is but a dream;
A task without a vision is drudgery;
A vision and a task is the hope of the world”
A task without a vision is drudgery;
A vision and a task is the hope of the world”
Collect everything
The GTD system that we’re going to be setting up in Evernote is a very simple system to keep track of your resources and goals. We’ll keep your list of goals in notes in Evernote, feel free to get creative with this, you can create images, put it in a note or pdf file. Do whatever you need to do to get your goal statements into Evernote and make them easy to review.
I’m a huge fan of GTD
One place to collect them all
Okay if I’m going to achieve my goals this year I’m going to need lots of information. I’m also going to need to refer to most of it fairly often. The best way to keep my goals moving forward is to spend quality time on them. In order to do this I’ve organised my information into one trusted system, Evernote. The beauty of this is that I keep all my information in one place. I can search in one place for anything I may need.
Example:
I want to finish the first draft of my novel by June 2010
In order to complete my goals I need to:
- Increase my knowledge about novel writing
- Do research for my novel
- write about 75 000 – 100 000 words
In order to move on to the last stage of my goal, the important bit, writing 75000 to 100 000 words, I need to complete the first two steps. In order to help myself achieve that, I’ll create 2 new notebooks in Evernote:
- Novel 2010 – I’ll be using this notebook for all the things pertaining to achieving and tracking my ulitmate goal of getting my first draft written
- <Novel Name> Research – I’ll be using this notebook for capturing and tracking all the information I’ve researched for my novel
I will use these two notebooks to save all the information around completing the first two steps of my goal of writing my novel.
Increase my knowledge about novel writing and do Research for my novel
Now i’m going to collect all my writing related:
- Books
- Magazines and Articles
- Courses
- Blogs and websites
Once I’ve found them all (well obviously not the blogs those are in ye old feed reader) I now have a very impressive pile which I’ll start capturing in Evernote soon.
Go ahead and start going through your desk cupboards, all dark corners that your “stuff” may be hiding. In my next post I will take you through the process for capturing everything you may find and making sure it’s search-able in Evernote so you can build a massive reference library that will not only support you in achieving your goals and getting things done but will also track your progress.
This post forms part of my series Tracking Goals and objectives in Evernote:
Part Two – Goal and Objective tracking in Evernote Pt. 2 – Capture
Check out the full Evernote GTD Series Here:
- Goal and Objective tracking in Evernote Pt. 1
- Goal and Objective tracking in Evernote Pt. 2- Capture
- Goal and objective tracking Evernote Pt. 3- Organize
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Novel writing is one of those things which just takes serious discipline. A lot of the romantic ideas attached to it just go out the window when you actually have to settle down and write the book.
Best of luck with it.
This year I’ve also set out with the intention of using technology – even if it is just Excel – to track many of the metrics within my business which were up in the air
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I tried my hand at NaNoWriMo last year and crashed and burned spectacularly enough to know exactly what you mean. I really was found wanting on the discipline side. I did learn to just sit and chunk out the words though, which is why I want a more structured approach this year.
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Hi Michael,
I still haven’t used technology to date to record my progress besides a pen and paper and the occasional Excel document. Those work for me. However, I think that if people find that these sorts of programs can help them achieve their goals, then all the power to them.
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I yet not familiar with this type of technology, I personally prefer my pocket notebook to note down my goal and what I’m doing to grab it and what wrong I done but still thing many people will find this technique useful. I just trying to follow the old, basic model.
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The one thing I like about tools are there’s no right or wrong only preference, I’m actually a big fan of paper and pen myself. This is the first time I”m undertaking such a big high tech goals project and am very excited with how well it’s going so far.
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You are very organized Michael. I wish I could be that organized. It does sound like a great program and I am sure once you set it up and get going on using it it probably works great. I’ll have to take a look at it.
Thanks!
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I am a bit annoyed by those comments about how ppl prefer pen & pencil rather than electronic tools when setting goals esp. ones that require reseach (and almost half of or everyday tasks are related to some kind of online/offline research these days). We wouldn’t like to write down numbers, web addresses, web clips on the paper nor attach photos, PDF files, word processing files to planner. That would be just too much while we could simply creat a link and copy&paste it onto the online note… anyway thank you for the great post! I’m actually a Springnote user but your post can be applied as well and aloso your writing style
makes me wanna do something! Haha thanks again!
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