You do the work - you write on a piece of paper - you put the piece of paper in a pile. Yes, for one year, 2017, i followed every job i did.
Why did I try to track every job I did? Why on the leaves?
…To be honest, I don't know. 🤷
It's just that, somehow, I started one day, continued the next, and at the second month I thought I could go on.
Here's what my room looked like on September 21st, 2017 after I finished this challenge with the sheets laid out:
No, I certainly didn't keep leaves on the floor every day. They were packed in a metal cookie box.
At the end I put…
Hmmm…
Well, a lot of leaves.
…What's the point?
I don't know. I honestly don't know.
I didn't feel like I learned anything. I didn't feel like I realized something, discovered something, or, realistically, at least did something impressive and fun. It's just a lot of sheets with one year's work written on them...
Customer orders, home repairs, hobby projects, drafts of initial ideas for completed articles.
Even today, in early March 2021, I don't feel that this challenge of mine was very special. Just want to jot down this reminder that I was doing it, someone was there and lo and behold…
I consider this challenge a failure
I probably should have done a few things differently:
- Set a clearer goal - what do I really want from this experiment? What to discover or check?
- Make a review mid-challenge - if the result is unclear after half the duration of the challenge (here, half a year), should we really continue?
Realistically, in this experiment I asked myself "could I" when I should have been asking "should I".
I leave this as a reminder for future experiments! 😉
