Personal Growth — Reflection about Habits [For Learning How to Learn]

In this short essay I am reasoning about one good habit and one bad habit. On the good front, it’s about months that I am able to write down the activities that I do during the week, using a calendar view — the annotations goes inside the meeting buckets. This approach helps me out in two scenarios:

• Assessing what was done
• Indexing (summing up) value for task items that repeat

This seemed to take lot of effort at the beginning — the effort to stop and annotate everything I do such as the annotations regarding reading a section of a book, the annotations after a study session, and indexing all of them against indexes (goals). However, over time, it became easier. And knowing how all activities relates to main project activities is helping me to have a quick access to the “whole week” macro view and to strategically look at how I am using my time.

On the bad side, I have a habit of inventing something new to work — out of the sudden. Or, to pick a task in a sort of “whatever I want to do next” or random approach. It seems to be too random, lazy, or maybe some of these activities could be related to procrastination. If I could be more focused in working in the prior-and-necessary parts that would strategically contribute to other important projects, things would sum up better.