2025 Week 34 Plan


It's 3:06 PM Eastern on Saturday as I begin to write my way through this Week 34 Plan. 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 with a Quadrant II Time Blocking Base Layer (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 as Time Allows (Microsoft Outlook To Do)

In terms of an overall evaluation for Week 33, it might be helpful for me to think in terms of a binary review. Was this a positive mental health recovery week or a disorganized schizoaffective setback week, on balance? This was definitely a positive mental health recovery week despite a very challenging start when my mom's computer died suddenly on Sunday afternoon. We overcame the challenge, God helped me get back on track with my plan for the week, and this afternoon I am noticing a quiet inner celebration of success. But I have to remind myself that setback weeks are inevitable and important parts of growth, too.

With respect to specific lessons, it looks like it could really help if I focus on just a single major Quadrant II Healthcare Patient goal each Wednesday. The same is probably true of Hermit Economics on Tuesdays. 

I am still 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 still 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)
  4. Personal Hygiene (Daily, Wednesday)
  5. Physical Exercise (Daily, Wednesday)
  6. Plant-Based Nutrition (Daily, Wednesday)
  7. Sleep Hygiene (Daily, Wednesday)
  8. Healthcare Appointments (PRN, Per Doctors' Orders and Wednesday)
  9. Medical Records (Wednesday)
  10. Mom Caresharing (Daily, PRN, Friday)
  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. Inquiry and Catechumenate (Thursday afternoon)
  17. Christian Zionism (Monday morning)
  18. UN Charter Navigation (Monday afternoon)
  19. Net Zero Hermitage (Tuesday morning)
  20. Basic Income Management (Tuesday afternoon)
  21. Vegan Wardrobe (Tuesday afternoon)
  22. Green Transportation (Tuesday morning)
  23. Christian Astronomy (Saturday evening)
  24. Christian Astrology (Tuesday evening)
  25. Psalter and Psalmody (Monday and Thursday evenings)
  26. Thoughts on Music (Sunday, Wednesday and Friday evenings) 

This list feels a lot more manageable than last week's list, but most of these projects are not clear-cut outcomes that I can check off as complete within 12 months or less, i.e., David Allen's definition of a project. I might have to develop my own definition of a project.   

All of my hard appointments for Week 34 (appointments that I actually write in my calendar) are confirmed.

I currently have 13 next actions pending in Microsoft To Do. Since I have 26 projects, it seems like I should have at least or around 26 next actions in To Do. Let's see where things stand in this regard at the end of Week 34. I might be in a transition zone between time blocking and complete GTD list implementation. Can I have too much white space? Is time blocking essential for Christian hermits - is it at the heart of the horarium?

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