2025 Week 33 Plan

It's 1:02 PM Eastern on Saturday as I begin to write my way through this Week 33 Plan. Last week's eldercare emergency may have indeed been a nudge from God to make Saturday afternoon, not Friday afternoon, my new weekly planning session. I have recently written about trying and failing to successfully implement a time management practice since the 1990s. Maybe this time around I can master some disability accommodations that make an effective system stick. I am not convinced that a high-fidelity Christian vegan eremitic time management system is beyond my capabilities.

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, I was a student of Stephen Covey's First Things First (FTF) methodology. The FTF system is centered around a weekly organizing session. I have customized the session to include the following elements:

• Step 1: Evaluate the Past Seven Days (Scan Your Blog Posts)
• Step 2: Review Your Mission (Blog Title) and Vision (Blog Description)
• Step 3: Review Your Areas of Responsibility (Blog Pages)
• Step 4: Review and Add or Retire Active Projects (Blog Labels) for Each of Your Areas of Responsibility 
• Step 5: Schedule Your Soft Appointments (This Blog Post)
• Step 6: Confirm Your Hard Appointments for the Week, Month and Quarter Underway (Microsoft Outlook Calendar)
• Step 7: Update Your List of Next Actions (Microsoft Outlook To Do)

In terms of an evaluation for Week 32, I see that I posted 14 out of 21 possible journal entries (66% implementation), and that I uploaded seven blog pages, capturing pretty much all of my current projects (100% implementation). This was a relatively good week for me, but I had to work through several depressed and anxious blockages, as well as significant newsfeed "withdrawal."  

I am reasonably comfortable with my mission (Discerning a Christian Vegan Eremitic Vocation with a Psychiatric Disability) and my low-key vision (A Detailed Journal. Published 1-3x Daily at Peak Flow. Thanks for Your Visit. God Bless.)

I am also reasonably comfortable with my seven Areas of Responsibility:

• Time Management | Center | Saturday
• Healthcare Patient | Midheaven | Wednesday
• Family Support | Imum Coeli | Friday
• Spiritual Direction | East | Sunday and Thursday
• Political Theology | West | Monday
• Hermit Economics | North | Tuesday
• Music of the Spheres | South | Evenings

My next step is to review all of my projects, mapping them to soft appointments on productivity theme days wherever possible:

1. Office Organization (Saturday morning)
2. Weekly Planning (Saturday afternoon)
3. Medication Management (Daily, Wednesday morning)
4. Personal Hygiene (Daily, Wednesday morning)
5. Physical Exercise (Daily, Wednesday morning)
6. Plant-Based Nutrition (Daily, Wednesday morning)
7. Sleep Hygiene (Daily, Wednesday afternoon)
8. Healthcare Appointments (PRN, Per Doctors' Orders and Wednesday afternoon)
9. Medical Records (Wednesday afternoon)
10. Mom Care (Daily, Friday morning and Friday afternoon)
11. Sibling Support (PRN)
12. Consultation with Mentors (PRN, Sunday afternoon)
13. Daily Prayer (Daily)
14. Religious Reading (Thursday morning)
15. Sunday Morning Worship (Sunday morning) 
16. Christian Inclusivism (Thursday afternoon)
17. Church Attendance (Thursday afternoon)
18. Doctrine of Scripture (Thursday afternoon)
19. Life in Christ (Thursday afternoon)
20. Messiah Complex (Thursday afternoon)
21. Pharmacological Mysticism (Thursday afternoon)
22. The Shabbat Question (Thursday afternoon)
23. The Third Temple Question (Thursday afternoon)
24. Weekday Briefing (Weekday mornings)
25. Christian Zionism (Monday morning)
26. UN Charter Navigation (Monday afternoon)
27. Responsible Voting (Election Days/Seasons)
28. ICJ Statute Article 36 (Monday afternoon)
29. International Criminal Court (Monday morning)
30. Nuclear Nonproliferation (Monday afternoon)
31. Politics (Monday afternoon)
32. Russian Federation (Monday afternoon)
33. The Palestinian Question (Monday morning)
34. The Syrian Question (Monday morning)
35. UN Charter Article 2 (Monday afternoon)
36. UN Charter Article 27 (Monday afternoon)
37. UN Charter Article 51 (Monday afternoon)
38. UN Charter Navigation (Monday afternoon)
39. UN Charter Preamble (Monday afternoon)
40. UN Charter Title (Monday afternoon)
41. Net Zero Hermitage (Tuesday morning)
42. Basic Income Management (Tuesday afternoon)
43. Vegan Wardrobe (Tuesday afternoon)
44. Green Transportation (Tuesday morning)
45. Christian Astronomy (Saturday evening)
46. Christian Astrology (Tuesday evening)
47. Psalter and Psalmody (Monday and Thursday evening)
48. Thoughts on Music (Sunday, Wednesday and Friday evening) 

I find this list to be rather overwhelming, in part because I haven't figured out how to label sub-projects; in part because my individual blog entries have not been systematic enough; and in part because I am still overextending myself.

Taking all of this into account, I have three goals for Week 33 of 2025:

1. Consolidate My Project List in the Spiritual Direction and Political Theology Areas of Responsibility
2. Complete Stocktaking Assessments for 25-50% of My Main Projects
3. Identify the Next Action for Every Project I Handle and Add It to My Microsoft Outlook To Do List

Alright, let's see how this goes.

Video at top: Keeping Track of What You Need to Do Next (GTD & Next Actions).