Updating My Most Popular System for 2024
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- Äas pĆidĂĄn 15. 07. 2024
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 intro
00:55 what is the distraction method?
01:38 a quick note on agile
02:30 original distraction method
03:57 using the method to talk to your boss
06:43 adding personal distractions into the mix
09:01 distraction method in weekly and daily format
10:40 planning vs actual spread
12:35 the way I use it now
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not me watching this at work instead of doing my job lol
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Itâs called training on the job, you keep learning and improving!
Especially in academia. Professional development.
Legend! đ
Not you literally stealing from your employer, lol! đ Itâs just so hilarious that youâre literally stealing from your employer, isnât it? As a business owner myself, youâd be fired. Iâm not paying employees to watch CZcams videos.
Finally a video on work planners đ No one does these!
I'm so happy to see another person who splits work from personal journal. đ
The distraction method seems to be pretty ADHD friendly!!! I think I'm gonna try this, thank you for explaining how it works!!! I guess my distraction lists will be so long, cause everything that comes to my mind gets me out of what I'm doing.
Same here except im autistic! (No adhd diagnosis) and often get distracted with special interests or more or less ruminations or mental tangents.
@@ravenoctober9936 I hope this method works for you too!! It's always good to hace a place to write all those thoughts and ideas and tasks that come to our minds đ
I've also created a "squirrely thoughts" page in my planner. So when I have an intrusive thought, idea, or impulsive purchase need, I write it there to come back to later.
@@brittanybogle1953 Great!!!
I often feel like I get distracted with the limited focus time I have as a stay at home mom, so this sounds like a great way to stay accountable to myself to use my time in a more productive/intentional way.
@@merleginsbergofficial I hope you didnât mean this the way I think you did, because I have a âreal job.â I do work that I donât get paid for and itâs easily the most important job I will ever have. The inability to get my own things done in the first year was basically impossible, because I donât get âtime off,â like vacations or sick time. At least those with a âreal jobâ or as I would say, work outside the home, get break times and clock in/clock out.
I think it's a troll. The insult wasn't even original so that's how one can tell.
I use a similar system. It's called my detour list and it's a game-changer when discussing priorities. I love this update!
this is liiiiiiiiterally genius!!!!! one of my imposter syndrome things is feeling like i was never accomplishing anything, but what actually kept happening was people kept coming in with last minute things for me to solve, taking away from planned tasks!!!!!
Rachel, I'm so grateful for your insights. Our jobs (yay, academia! đđŒââïž), personalities and planning styles are so similar, it's uncanny. So I've been drinking up your wisdom and I'll definitely try this too. I'm constantly trying to push for a promotion (ugh, academia đ) and this will help me loads to explain my many hours of overtime and long waiting list of projects. Thank you, please keep up the awesome content. đ€
Hello Rachel!! Iâve just found your channel a couple of days ago and have been binge watching all of your videos in preparation for the new year. Your videos have really helped me figure out what my planning needs are and how to implement them into my new planner for 2024! Iâm using the undated daily planner by Papier ( Iâm mainly using it for its weekly spreads though!). A big need of mine was a planner that aids me in accomplishing my goals by having check-ins and trackers throughout (aka tools to keep me accountable and aware of how much progress Iâve made). Tonight I plan on doing the Sterling Ink goal matrix thing (lol) on a piece of notebook paper and cross examining what I come up with alongside a different goal setting system I like to use (an audit of âthe 7 areas of lifeâ). Anyway, sorry for the long comment, I just wanted to thank you for your videos-especially, the one about goal planning with anxiety-they have been my number one planning resource going into this next year! So, thank you for all of your hard work! I know we all really appreciate it! đ Also, correct me if Iâm wrong, but it sounds like you introduced and helped implement your distraction method to your work place for everyone to use? That is AWESOME, girl!! Great job!! đ
This is such a good idea. I'm finishing up my dissertation, a huge self-directed project, and it can be useful to keep track of distractions that take over my writing time sometimes. I'm not even talking about Netflix or cleaning the house.đ I mean there are research or teaching related tasks that sometimes get in the way of meeting my writing goals. This method can help keep me accountable and compassionate with myself. I will try in 2024. đ
This more detailed video about the distraction method made more sense to me. I got it much better. In fact, I am thinking of ways to use it for my work too. I work at a global CRO, and we use weekly timecards to track our time and can enter comments etc. It is really the task I hate the most đ
Great idea and I have been trying to figure out how to do something like this. One thing: Many years ago, my manager warned me not to mix personal and professional documentation, at the time my Franklin planner, since anything work related is basically company property and can be subpoenaed or confiscated. For this reason, I would not add social media or doom scrolling to anything related to work. Youâve given me some great ideas about how to use this distraction logging.
Wow Rachelle, this was so inspiring and helpful, thank you! I might try this as well, and also as a person who used to manage a small team, I have to say you would be a dream employee. Somebody as organized and accountable as you is an absolute dream to have in a team!
I just loved learning about this method, it seems to be so useful! I will try it for sure, thank you for the inspo :)
Yes! Some years ago, instead of planning, or on top of planning what I want todo in the future: wich i did do only 20% . So then i deceided to just log what i actually did instead for a while. And this gave me important insight in how long things take, when ihave energy and focus. So I dont set myself up for failure. What i thought of asdistraction was in fact a very important task (brainstorming because the goal wasnt clear and the steps were to big)
4:00 WOW GIRLFRIEND, you have a LOT on your plate!! My dream job was a secretary at a grade school, unfortunately life caught up with me, marriage, pregnancy, divorce , work, and held-up at work for money. I certainly enjoy seeing younger people get that job and explain what or how they do it! I am certainly proud of you!! Good luck and thanks for sharing!! from Ohiođșđž
I LOVE this method, however the amount of distractions in my job would require me to use the weeks spreads đđ that said, itâs an eye opener for me to think about just the sheer amount of distractions that happen on a daily basis and a place for me to start tackling my daily distractions. Thank you!
Hey your channel got a shout out as one of Helens favorites on the TCMC. It has been my favorite since you came on the scene over a year ago now.
Thank you for this update! I tried to watch the original video but ADHD. đ I really appreciate this more direct explanation.
I'm a homeschooling mom and am really excited to implement this for my own accountability. You've given me some great ideas on how to expand my current bujo layout to include this. Thank you!
This was super helpful. Very applicable for both adhd and software. At my work we create github issues, and triage them twice per week - frequently enough we can prioritize things as a team when they arenât genuine emergencies. This includes small things that would be âquickâ to do (we call these papercuts), which helps me resist doing those immediately when they come up, if theyâre not urgent.
Note: âquickâ is in scare quotes because thereâs a tendency towards over-optimism when estimating this.
this is so cool. Itâs great that you put it in the agile context, genuinely helpful!
Iâm thinking most of my stuff at work isnât really about distractions but we do get handled a lot of work and then are also asked to meet these yearly expectations / goals but itâs hard to track how my utilization can affect how much I can contribute to those side projects / goals or just extra stuff I get done and I end up thinking I havenât accomplished much by EOY. I might use this method to track how Iâm contributing go those stretch goals each day / month
this looks like a really interesting system â€â€
Rachelle, this is genius. Thank you so much for sharing this. The polarization between priorities and distractions is not a new concept, but the way you present it, and application in a familiar format of planner, is exactly what I needed.
I am applying it immediately.
I may have to implement parts of this for my day-job - our project is spread between the UK, US and Asia, so I don't always know what my overseas colleagues are up to and distractions can land on my plate out of nowhere đ
I'm a software engineer who is obsessed with both planners and agile/scrum â„ïž curious if you have thoughts on Kanban vs agile. I've been trying out the GTD method recently and it feels more like Kanban, vs traditional monthly/weekly/daily planning reminds me more of scrum.
Not me getting distracted while watching this video
This video made me realize my office job is more laidback than I thought đ
My old job did not leave me a single minute to note things down and wondered how we are are so busy đ
Working on my APE, flushed as soon as the weeks came out đ
Damn... doom scrolling and social media... I don't get on my phone for the 8 hours or more that I'm on shift, I would be in so much trouble if I did that. I would be fired. I do get destracted but by other random work requests which can take me down a whole rabbit hole.