For those who know social media, the hashtag symbol (#) frequently appears before terms made by creators. We can find information on social media through hashtags such as #StreetFood and a list of corresponding treasure of information appears.
Since there is awareness with the hashtag symbol (#) then I use it to help my scheduling and goal setting. I maintain a collection of information that are guides to my goal setting. In a prior blog post, recall that I claim (rightly or wrongly) many aspects of modern day life are available with guides (on the world-wide web). It makes learning and planning a lot easier with simple guidelines. There are still cases for human interpretation and discovery for people who do innovation.
Alright. The point of this blog post is to show how easy it can be to come up with objectives and a few simple tweaks to a set of instructions can aid the way to scheduling.
As the picture above indicates, there is a set of instructions within a table. The document need not be a spreadsheet. It might be an even better idea if you use a table within a word processing document to avoid the words being spread apart on many different rows.
Add four columns to the table with the headings: Reliance, Effort Estimation, Budget, and Steps.
Reliance
This column is to maintain a source of contacts or resources that any part of the instructions require to function properly. The resource can be ready-made or self-made so remember to save some money where possible.
Effort Estimation
The effort estimation in this column indicate the hours of work required to complete the step. No need to be too fancy, a simple guess will be sufficient.
Budget
The budget column indicates the money required in each area of the guidelines.
Steps
One of the most important parts to deciphering a set of guidelines is to prioritize and list out the path that I want to pursue in my project. Sometimes there will be more information to choose from and other times I may need to come up with research to fulfill the project. Simply list out the number of steps beside the set of guidelines.
Consider this a source document for your goal setting. It may be simple but the essential aspects are there to use for scheduling this goal.
Maintain a collection of these source documents in folders to neatly organize your progress and objectives. It will keep the course upon learning and aid with controlling too many distractions on the road to acquiring a skill.
Don’t forget to keep a corresponding entry on the CARE tracker for this objective competency.
Summary of procedure to make the hashtag source document:
- Open a word processing document and create a table with 5 columns
- List the corresponding headings (Reliance, Effort Estimation, Budget) across the first 3 columns
- Paste your guidelines in the 4th column
- Use the heading of Steps in the 5th column
- Complete the table as needed
Summary of procedure to apply upon basic schedule form:
- Fill in the #Topic with the intended objective (for example, #Widgets)
- Put in the first step as the goal on initial day, and use the Effort Estimation to determine if it can be completed
- Schedule the rest of the steps as goals on other days if they cannot be completed the same day
- Make a note of reliance upon external factors and schedule those accordingly
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