Yesterday, I went through my current “Holler Happenings” notebook, and I wrote down a list of unfinished tasks — things I’d planned to do throughout the month but hadn’t yet accomplished. Sadly, it’s quite a long list, but I’m hoping that something I found in Jill Winger’s book, “Old-fashioned On Purpose: A Homesteading Manifesto” will help me turn all of the afore-mentioned tasks into completed ones.
“That something” is what she calls “The Result Road Map”, and it’s an exercise that’s designed to “break giant undertakings into small, bite-size steps”. That’s exactly what I think I need since I’m often overwhelmed by the sheer enormity of some of the “giant undertakings” I’ve been trying to accomplish!
Hmmm… I just realized that “The Result Road Map” five-step process reminds me A LOT of what I did as a special education teacher. When working with my students, I would create goals for my students that we’d work on together throughout the year. These annual goals would be broken down into “short-term objectives”, which are the equivalent to the “small, bite-size steps” mentioned in “The Result Road Map”. Don’t know why I didn’t think of breaking down my annual goals into the “short-term objectives” objectives like I did while I was teaching. Anyway…
“The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything up close.”