Autofocus

I’m not sure I should write about this so soon. Two weeks into it, I was all full of enthusiasm for Do It Tomorrow. Bit by bit, it slowly became harder to keep current, and once I fell behind, it all became just as big a swamp as ever.  Now I’m two weeks in and all full of enthusiasm for the latest iteration of a Mark Forster system for doing everything I want to do: Autofocus.

Basically you keep a list of everything as you think of it and work your way through each page, bit by bit. You don’t have to do everything, just something on each page that’s still active. When you get to the end, you start over.

On the plus side, there’s very little overhead, which means you spend very little time tweaking. It offers you a mix of things to do, which is very appealing.

On the down side, if you throw too much into the list, you can lose sight of what’s in it. It took me eight days to get from starting the system to reaching the end of the list. In short, I can think of things to do a lot faster than I do them.

Still, even when I’m feeling overwhelmed, working through the list is remarkably fun and satisfying. I think I need to keep going and learn to trust it.

It is not helping with the writing, though. That’s another story.