Last week, I focused on building a daily drawing habit. Working well!

Blog posts

• Weekly review: Week ending October 4, 2013
• Gardening review: 2013
• Thinking out loud about how to help other sketchnoters go professional and how to help people get their ideas sketched
• Cheat uncertainty by sweetening the potential outcomes
• Test what you know by sharing
• Drawing practice: Daily drawing
• Monthly review: September 2013

Quick notes

• Last weekend cooking: Saturday – carrot soup; Sunday – shepherd’s pie, black bean tofu, quiche
• The trick to non-overflowing quiche: cook your solid ingredients, then mix the eggs and cream depending on the volume you have left
• This weekend: vegetable stew, pumpkin pie, egg tarts
• See sketches.sachachua.com for recent public sketches. Eventually I’ll fold them into the weekly review process as well…

Link round-up

• Cheaper and Healthier Than Store-Bought: 10 Great Freeze-Ahead Burrito Recipes – We mostly use rice in our home-made frozen meals, but burritos might be interesting for variety.
• Start Small: Why Tinkerers Get Things Done – Non-intimidating way to get started (Hat-tip: Lifehacker)
• Simple can be difficult – This links to a text editor limited to the most common words in English. Interesting challenge. I wonder if someone’s written an Emacs mode to do that…
• Working More Slowly: Patching Leaky Motivation – David Seah’s adventures continue. Me, I’m experimenting with daily drawing and a weekly focus. That seems to be working out. I did a similar analysis of
  
  , too. Good to know what energizes you and what drains you, and what the activation thresholds are.
• Latin LOLCat: Writing – Crescit scribendo scribendi studium. – “A zeal for writing grows by writing.” So true!
• Trackthisforme Tracks Anything You Want – Ooh, pretty graphs.
• How Big is your Circle of Control? – I keep my circle of concern pretty small. Not much point in griping about things I can’t affect, like the weather. I’m working on expanding my circle of control, focusing on what I can do.

Focus areas and time review

This week, I’m going to focus on tidying. I want to clear more space in the house and organize things better so that I can more efficiently store and find things.

• Business (46.9h – 27%)
  • Earn (22.1h – 47% of Business)
    • [X] Earn: Consulting – E1 – Monday half-day
    • [X] Earn: Consulting – E1 – Thursday
    • [X] Earn: Consulting – E1 – Tuesday
    • [X] Earn: Consulting – E1 – Wednesday half-day
    • [ ] Earn: Consulting – E1 – Thursday
    • [ ] Earn: Consulting – E1 – Tuesday
    • [ ] Earn: Consulting – E1 – Wednesday half-day
  • Build (20.5h – 43% of Business)
    • Quantified Awesome (0.0h)
      • [ ] Fix token authentication and quantified.el – Vedat
    • Drawing (13.6h)
      • [X] Break ten sketchnotes down into components and file them
      • [ ] Break another ten sketchnotes down into components and file them
    • Paperwork (6.2h)
      • [ ] Pick up paper T2 from Enterprise Toronto in City Hall
  • Connect (4.3h – 9% of Business)
• Relationships (5.6h – 3%)
  • [ ] Celebrate Thanksgiving with W-‘s family
  • [ ] Check on passport
  • [ ] Talk to Young Urban Farmers regarding garden
• Discretionary – Productive (6.8h – 4%)
  • [X] Bring my ledger up to date with regard to equities
  • [ ] Rescan black sketchbook
  • Writing (3.2h)
• Discretionary – Play (9.8h – 5%)
• Personal routines (20.2h – 12%)
• Unpaid work (17.2h – 10%)
• Sleep (62.5h – 37% – average of 8.9 per day)