Some things that are worth knowing about Delores:

Sometimes it’s useful to follow the page step by step, but a lot of the time 90% of the value is found by writing it out once so that you spot those times you are lying to yourself.

Engage with Delores

  • Accept - Delores is a tool for finding out what you don’t want to do.
  • Delores is also a tool for finding out why you don’t want to do it.

If you are halfway through some interesting bit of code and can easily get back to flow

  • Quickly check the calendar and come back to this later

Daily start

Bedroom

  • Phone is literally locked away (if you need a code for a login, then you can wait, if you need to make a call, use Skype).

Bathroom

  • clean teeth

Kitchen

  • Dishwasher
  • drink 1l water
  • Vitamin tablet
  • Put kettle on
  • Get glasses

Office

  • Fill out big book of gratitude

Getting ready for first sprint of the day

  • Plan Time and Process Calendar (Inclumes planning exercise and food)
  • Collect any tasks
    • Process reminders
    • Clear desk into inbox.
    • Process Inbox
    • Process Paper (which should be in inbox anyway)
  • Review the ten year goals (even if they are out of date)
  • Review the public internet history
  • Clear out the downloads folder

Starting a sprint after break

Might be doing this two or three or four times a day

  • Start a new section in inbox.md <!– * Setup mario timer.
  • Check internet is off * Turn on redirector (consider opening social media stack).–>
  • Set alarm for end of sprint - respond to alarms not clocks
  • Confirm you have full water bottle
  • Process inbox.md
  • Clear stack
    • Give everything a priority and a time.
    • Put them in the relevant files

Picking a todo list item.

  • While there are items on the list
    • Review the first category of task, make sure they all have the correct due date, priority and a github link.
    • Attack first item on list
    • literal rest (actual, five minutes on the timer, literal rest.
  • (After while)
    • Regenerate Todos.

Contents

Extras

Transition

  • Make sure have set watch
  • My Clothes
  • Car/pram packed
  • Coats and hats and shoes for kids preped
  • Know what the game is

Thank yous

  • Send individual messages first

Close down work day

  • Make a note of when you start and when you stop so you know how long it lasts
  • process up the input file.
  • Clear the stack.
  • Make it easy to come back to.
  • Afternoon Meditation for solid evening.

Night time:

( Put night time in a seperate place because it’s something you’ll start at a diference place.

  • Most important: go to bed excited for something cool you’ll do in the morning.
  • Kitchen
    • Make sure all the keys are in the right place.
    • lock up.
    • Make sure skye is running.
    • Dishwasher on.
    • Kettle full for tomorrow
    • Phone locked away
  • Office
    • Charging
      • Laptops
      • Tablets
      • Headphones
      • Use the air tags to find notebook/waterbottle
    • Pick exciting thing on todo list.
  • Upstairs
    • Clothes laid out
    • Clothes boxes sorted
    • Teeth
    • Book.
    • Guess wake up time.
  • All lights off.