Tell Your Life Story Through Various Filters

For Hack Your Life With A Private Wiki Notebook, Getting Things Done, And Other Systems.

Getting Things Done is just one of the many "systems" of Self Improvement.

I chose this seemingly-weird page-name instead of referring to Self Improvement because Story Telling is about both:

• Making Sense of your past and present; and
• designing your future (Hack Your Life) (I'm a Life Stylist!) (Fake It Til You Make It)

Here are some ways of triggering some self-examination:

• Pick a page named on the Meaningful Life Roadmap and fill it out. Do this over the course of 2-3 days, with at least one "session" of 20min to chew on it. Does this inspire you to pick another page from Meaningful Life Roadmap to create?
  • Taylor Pearson's systems (Effective Entrepreneur) have been most effective for me at moving from My Calling and My 25-Year Vision Roles to an Actionable Quarterly Review and Weekly Review process.
• Try out a Self Improvement system. We already covered Getting Things Done briefly. Some others:
  • meta: To Be Or To Do?
  • Principle Centered Living: Stephen Covey (SevenHabits) (First Things First)
    • (Purpose Driven Life is Rick Warren!)
  • Archetype Based Living (Steve Pavlina)
  • Worldview Based Living (Steve Pavlina)
  • Area Balanced Living
  • Personal Kanban
  • Michael Linenberger's Master Your Now/MYN, 1MTD, Total Workday Control http://www.michaellinenberger.com/1MTDvsMYN.html (I have his book)
  • Kevin Crenshaw's TRO/Total Relaxed Organization http://www.priacta.com/troblog/2009/08/01/training/tro-vs-total-workday-control-vs-gtd/
  • Lion Kimbro's How To Make A Complete Map Of Every Thought You Think
  • Marcus Buckingham's Truth About You, Strengths Finder
• Take a Personality Test. Just remember - they're all just Model-s, not reality.
• Add a personal-reflection piece to your Daily Review, include it in your Weekly Log page. Looks for Patterns.
• It's fine to change frameworks and goals and habits periodically, esp if you do so via a process of Reflective Thought. I call this Intervention Roulette.

Along the way:

• Don't forget to use Smashed Together Words!
• Notice Patterns And Garden Your Private Wiki Notebook