Sources of Insight is 6 Months Old

J.D. Meier — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:52:44 GMT

Sources of Insight is 6 Months Old. It's growing up fast. I'd like to say I have the perfect plan, and everything's gone as planned, but I don't and it hasn't. Life's funny like that. What I can say is that I've made the most of it along the way, and I continue to fail forward. Onward and upward.

Sources of Insight is my blog for sharing patterns and practices for skilled living. It's how I scale myself as I help others unleash their inner awesome. You can think of it as a collection of insight and action to get results for work and life.

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The Zen of Results and Evernote

J.D. Meier — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 01:18:47 GMT

I tested Evernote with my time management system, The Zen of Results. Evernote is like ITunes for knowledge. Check out how easily The Zen of Results fit with Evernote:

It took me under 5 minutes from start to finish. It was intuitive and friction free. One of the keys to effective time management techniques is getting rid of friction, otherwise it's death by a 1000 paper cuts in the long run. I expected some learning curve or some issues, so I was pleasantly surprised. Maybe I'll be unpleasantly surprised later, but so far so good.

Results
The quick test was a success:

I found it very easy to create folders and lists – just like I do on my hard-drive and in Outlook.
I like the idea that it’s an online/offline system. It's a S+S (software plus services) application.
You can tag stuff too.
It’s nice and crisp.

Notebook Summary
Here's a summary of the notebooks I created in Evernote for The Zen of Results:

Vision / Mission / Values - my internal compass.
Outcomes - my overall big picture accomplishments.

Action

To Dos - my daily outcomes – the value I bite off for the day.
Queue - my list for each project and my backlog of pending stuff.
Weekly Outcomes - my “Monday Vision” for the week’s planned results. It sets the weekly forest from the monthly trees.

Reference

Notes - any random dumps from links to whatever.
Thoughts - my little “ah has” or ideas – it’s a thought catcher.
Sessions - my running dumps where I’ll dump my notes from stickies or notes from the day (I keep a notepad file open so I always have a place to dump my brain without wasting think time)

Checklists / Scripts

Checklists - my checklists ;)
Scripts - my step by step instructions – for anything from a routine to an “improvement script” that I cycle through to improve.

Improvement / Results

Results Log - my daily log of stuff I accomplished. I only use it if I get in stuck mode or feel like I’m thrashing or churning or just don’t feel good about accomplishment.
Monthly results - my monthly snapshot of results – a simple bulleted list of things I did. Perfect for reviews and for sending to management each month.
Lessons Learned - my distillations on projects or from other people – it’s whenever I do the exercise.

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