A dad's advice to himself and his kids.

First of all, Larry, Serge, way to be a gangster.  You’ve got way more info about me than the IRS does, and for that I applaud you.   Across your servers pass my dreams and hopes, and god love it if I don’t know enough about your privacy.  Second of all, this will be reworked for BHB or Lenderama soon.

Still, I trust you for the most part, for the time being, and so I am giving you even more information about me.

All your life life is about metrics:  how many days, how many shots of adrenaline, how many kisses, how much breath, how many thrills, how many tears and how you felt about it all.   And anytime you want to hit a goal, most of the time you can measure it with metrics.

How much weight do you want to lose?  ~Calories Burned + Calories In = Weight (YMMV).

How much business do you want to do: (attempts–>marketing touches–>responses—>conversion %)

Anyway, the gorgeous thing about Gdocs is that the ‘fill out a form,’ function is stupid simple.  And what I want to do (create a kickass bourse for small projects and elite freelancers) is easily measured.   How many projects did I get, how many ppl. did I pitch, how many blog posts did I make?

So again, since the ‘fill in a form’ function makes things easy, and since I know, more or less what I want to do.  Now, I’m not going back into Mike Ferry-douchebag land.  That land is for some people, and I appreciate the standard of excellence, but I’m not making the commitment to lifestyle, and overhead and materialism that that stuff does.

Since I’m creating my life, I can choose, right?  SO I’ll put together a doc that has:

1. Time I woke up (I’m not consistent–I don’t really care what time I get up, but I care what I do when I get up.  scratch that.  I want to be up by 7am, but I don’t need to get up at the BCD anymore)
2. Writing done/measured
   
   1. Morning pages  [discrete yes/no, should be 75% or better, averages s700 words]
      
   2. Subprime (a novel, yes, a novel…want to write ~650 words a day.)
      
   3. FT (next and nifty project…want to finish 2 essays a day)
      1. This will require some serious sales/promotion time in about 3 weeks.  Kick
         
   4. GCB:  I like to have something ready for semi-public consumption once a day.
      
   5. FT Blog Post
      
   6. Other Blog Posts:  I blog at a number of places and I want to blog 3x weekly around.  (I used to wish to blog 4x weekly).
      
   7. OPB:  (I am a ghost blogger, and I must write for them in the morning or the snakes get out from my desk and run loose)
3. RRN marketing tasks (I am passionate about processes.  always have had an operations bias.   RRN gives me the chance to address that:
   1. First sales call made by:
   2. Leads generated
   3. RRN Blog post written
   4. RRN promotion done
      1. (this needs some love)
         
   5. Projects Quoted
   6. Projects Accepted
   7. Projects Completed:
      
   8. $$ Collected
4. Exercise:
   1. calories in
   2. Calories out
   3. Weight (yes virginia, I gotta post)
      
   4. Cardio
   5. resistance)
   6. Reading Done (pages).

Now:  Because GDocs can be a damn simple form, I can do this really quickly.   docs.google.com fill in a form.    I create 180-200 columns and have the end sum them up.  Each time I fill in a new form it appends a column, so what I’d be able todo this pretty easily; if I got my exercise done, it’d append to one, etc.   The forms can all live on a PWD protected WP page that can be my “dashboard,” and I can make a public dashboard so I can be held accountable for my progress.

Since my blog is a thesis blog, I can put the code in the top right-hand sidebar and have it look semi attractive.

Next thing:  I make them all add to a column with 60 or so days.  I column sum it/divide it by days.   I can see what %% I’m done, etc, pretty easily.  This can be a kicking way to do numbers analysis and Opt Out of the meltdown.
The next thing that I need to add is some sort of ‘days past’ mechanism so I can know what pace I’m on.

So i’ll see:

Sub prime words:  700  goal 21,000:  pace :  24000: % etc.

Not hard.