This is good information for those who are task and accomplishment driven. However, don’t forget to reward yourself with a monthly report. It gives a real sense of accomplishment to summarize on a regular basis. This would be easy to implement using a journaling method. Just highlight and glean significant accomplishments throughout the pages.

Monthly reports also remind management why you are there and how much you get done - and that you take the extra step to report in on a regular basis. Twelve reports make irrefutable backup for a positive annual review - if you work for a company that’s into that sort of thing. If you’re a solo entrepreneur, then the monthly report is a report card to yourself. By periodically looking back you can track your progress and trajectory.

Here are a few things recalled from 44 years of creative project accomplishment:

1. There’s done, and there’s done/done. Projects and tasks are either: not-started, started, done, or done/done. Avoid calling it done when there are any remaining steps to completion.
2. Don’t make yourself crazy with lists and multi-tasking. Make sure you’re working on the right thing instead of the next thing. Some day you might just crave minimalism or a day off. Be patient and let some things unfold on their own schedule.
3. Put consideration for other people first. Wait - did I just put that third? Share and let others contribute. Success unshared is hollow.
4. Exercise and control what you eat.

What a great way to implement daily affirmations. This should be in the Jedi handbook.

The takeaway for me is: “There are no books that teach you how to solve a problem no one has seen before.“

That’s exactly how I summarize my 41 year career in software development: as creative problem solving. Usually, software was involved but the best program is the one you don’t have to write because you solved the problem some other way.

What a great way to teach children.

It’s Hemingway so it’s a 10/10. It would have been so exciting to have gone fishing with Hemingway and crew, off Cuba, for over two months. His writing was so clear and his adventures so inspiring.

This is a tool for your life nav toolbox. It doesn’t purport to solve more than one problem at a time. I’m going be mindful of this and see if I keep this in the toolbox or not.