Cue

Yesterday I shared a few ways to improve your thinking.

We all want to think better.

Why does the “don’t break the chain” method work when you’re building habits?

Side projects are where the passion is.

Not a goal.

Checklists are amazing.

Yep, confession time.

Our family is in Utah today and we’re going to Lagoon, a big amusement park that is here.

Seconds, minutes, hours.

Did you plan today?

When I plan my day, I write down my habits as part of my plan.

It’s rare, but sometimes half of the day will go by before I get around to planning.

A plan is what you want to do and the order you want to do it in.

Cue now has planning mode.

I’m on a getaway with my wife, Kami, at a beautiful ski resort.

Here are the instructions that will eventually be part of the first-time user experience.

Life is a game of games.

You haven’t started planning your day.

Daily planning is the foundation habit that lets you stack more habits.

A task list: Is open ended Has no limits Is unordered or prioritized Grows without limits Never ends Has many levels of abstraction Just has tasks Doesn’t model anything Encourages overcommitment Leads to self-deception A plan: Is specific Is bounded Is o…

… before it gets better.

A simple list: Spend no time planning If you forget to plan, you are planning to forget.

I am a planner nerd.

If you haven’t heard Jocko Willink’s near legendary “GOOD” video, go do that now.

I am a software developer.

Are you out of balance?

What does a real life daily plan look like?

“People who are successful keep track of their work with todo lists.”

The other day I wrote about my own strategies for getting through the waves, dips, troughs, and crests of life.

On Sunday during church, my seven year old daughter decided to make a plan for the rest of the day.

One of my email subscribers (my wife, actually) admitted to not reading every email I send out.

Let’s get real.

“Imagine your perfect day” Eight-year-old me had fun doing that.

No need for an introduction, here they are. 1.

What if there were no task inbox?

Maximum Viable Products are those that have grown and accreted so many features and so much functionality that they collapse under their own weight.

Up to now, I’ve been outlining a product vision for Cue that is fairly complete.

Humans operate in cycles: the day, the week, the month, the year, the generation or life.

The idea of a task inbox is nothing new.

Doing mode is now engaged!

Planning mode is where the heavy lifting happens.

Let’s work through the principles outlined in … for the next few days.

Right now, Cue is just a simple list app.

I just dropped my son off at scout camp, but he’s not there as an attending boy scout.

I’ve got a lot of weaknesses.

I did that today.

Ok, maybe not tyrants, but the alliteration was too good to pass up.

I’m planning every day, and I’m using a tickler.

What planning tool should I use?

I just finished reading The Brothers Karamazov yesterday, for the second time.