The Examined Life

It's interesting to me how an idea can catch fire. Once it sparks something, a really good idea can run like a flame through the rest of your life.

This is what happened yesterday. Pam and I had decided that this was a 'reset' day. With all of the craziness that has been hitting us time and time again over the last several months, we have hardly had time to catch our breaths, let alone maintain any kind of sensible life.

So yesterday we sat down together and started talking about how to get our lives under control. We fell back to the Fly Lady model for keeping the house, which let us back to the Sidetracked Home Executive (SHE) system. Pam then mentioned that the whole system used to be based on an index card system. PING!

The Hipster PDA is index cards! This led to Getting Things Done using the Hipter. A couple of shopping trips later, and we have hundreds of blank and coloured index cards, boxes and tabs. We are labelling and printing like madmen (and madwomen!) and the system starts to take shape.

As part of this system, we included our routines (5 daily sets of tasks). Included in these tasks are all of the things we need to do in order to keep this train on the rails without running off. We even had a study time together this morning (it is part of the Getting Ready routine.)