The first step that Anna points out is “Ask ourselves what we’re trying to achieve” or in other words, know your goal. Since you have a desire to be more strategic you probably already have a goal in mind and realized that being more strategic would be an effective subgoal. From the rest of your post I think you’ve substantially worked on some of the other steps as well.
If you’re struggling fulfilling the rest of the steps Anna laid out my recommendation is to just do things which may work towards achieving your goal that are very outside your comfort zone. That will pull you out of your pre-existing habits and get you to start evaluating different strategies instead of continuing to follow the strategy you’ve already worked yourself into.
If you’re a procrastinator, start working on something that’s a long term goal immediately for at least a few hours without breaks even if you start to think it might not be effective. If you think it’s not effective that may be because of akrasia taking over once you actually start working on it.
If you are fearful of offending people go to an online or in person marketplace and start low-balling people with ridiculous offers and continually press them to make a deal favorable to you. Make the situation uncomfortable enough and you’ll realize you have the ability to deal with the social awkwardness when you’re trying to work towards your goal.
This is Anna’s step e and I encourage working on this step because from your post it seems like you’ve already put good work into everything that comes before it.
My bad if this is more of tactics rather than the strategy tips you were looking for.
If you are fearful of offending people go to an online or in person marketplace and start low-balling people...
That… is a great idea and I can see how to expand on it into other arenas.
Since I posted this question I’ve been working primarily on strategy and through that have realized improving my productivity would be a wise decision. Since they seem so intertwined (productivity is the strategic use of time and resources) I’ve split my time up into 40% strategy, 40% productivity, 20% execution of other goal-oriented tasks.
If I could go back and redo the work, how long would it take me to make the same amount of progress? Divide the time-to-redo by the original duration.
Ex. I spent 4 hours writing a draft. Looking back I could have saved 1 hour by researching more thoroughly before starting to write. Score: 75% efficient.
Tracking Method
Record what I did during the day in the evening. Score it with the above method and add a hidden confidence score. Score it again 3 days later. Track the difference for calibration. Ask why that score was selected.
Also Track:
Time spent working. Consistency of adhering to my work schedule: 5 days a week.
Strategy
Tracking Method
Rate of changes to strategy guide. (little iffy on this one). I win more than I lose. (Games, negotiating, etc.) Goals accomplished.
I’m glad you appreciate the advice. It seems to me that you’ve developed a very effective, structured way to improve your productivity and I’m going to try to emulate your strategy here with a few upcoming projects I have to work on and see how efficient I’m being.
The first step that Anna points out is “Ask ourselves what we’re trying to achieve” or in other words, know your goal. Since you have a desire to be more strategic you probably already have a goal in mind and realized that being more strategic would be an effective subgoal. From the rest of your post I think you’ve substantially worked on some of the other steps as well.
If you’re struggling fulfilling the rest of the steps Anna laid out my recommendation is to just do things which may work towards achieving your goal that are very outside your comfort zone. That will pull you out of your pre-existing habits and get you to start evaluating different strategies instead of continuing to follow the strategy you’ve already worked yourself into.
If you’re a procrastinator, start working on something that’s a long term goal immediately for at least a few hours without breaks even if you start to think it might not be effective. If you think it’s not effective that may be because of akrasia taking over once you actually start working on it.
If you are fearful of offending people go to an online or in person marketplace and start low-balling people with ridiculous offers and continually press them to make a deal favorable to you. Make the situation uncomfortable enough and you’ll realize you have the ability to deal with the social awkwardness when you’re trying to work towards your goal.
This is Anna’s step e and I encourage working on this step because from your post it seems like you’ve already put good work into everything that comes before it.
My bad if this is more of tactics rather than the strategy tips you were looking for.
That… is a great idea and I can see how to expand on it into other arenas.
Since I posted this question I’ve been working primarily on strategy and through that have realized improving my productivity would be a wise decision. Since they seem so intertwined (productivity is the strategic use of time and resources) I’ve split my time up into 40% strategy, 40% productivity, 20% execution of other goal-oriented tasks.
I’ve drafted some ways to measure progress:
Productivity
Largely derived from: Thank you notes from my future self.
If I could go back and redo the work, how long would it take me to make the same amount of progress? Divide the time-to-redo by the original duration.
Ex. I spent 4 hours writing a draft. Looking back I could have saved 1 hour by researching more thoroughly before starting to write. Score: 75% efficient.
Tracking Method
Record what I did during the day in the evening.
Score it with the above method and add a hidden confidence score.
Score it again 3 days later.
Track the difference for calibration.
Ask why that score was selected.
Also Track:
Time spent working.
Consistency of adhering to my work schedule: 5 days a week.
Strategy
Tracking Method
Rate of changes to strategy guide. (little iffy on this one).
I win more than I lose. (Games, negotiating, etc.)
Goals accomplished.
Thanks again for the advice.
I’m glad you appreciate the advice. It seems to me that you’ve developed a very effective, structured way to improve your productivity and I’m going to try to emulate your strategy here with a few upcoming projects I have to work on and see how efficient I’m being.