It's 2025 - where have I been?

So I dropped the Sprint-in-Spurtz ball... among many other balls

Here (at Sprint in Spurtz), I was putting together a plan and some hacks to get things done in an unconventional way that would work, simply working in bursts and stops and starts. But the idea was that I was never completely stopping, always finding my way back on track.

Completely in opposition to that, I deviated and started another site called Weekday Mojo with daily tips to push you and me through the weekdays. But really, I was just searching again for the thing to get me started and keep me going.

And following that and quite aptly I started the Failure Journal website – all about how failure is not a dirty word and failing is OK and can be a prompt to find a new way.

But like Dorothy I have found my way back and am going to work through this and hopefully achieve more by doing less. 

If I set out to do less and actually do it – I will have done more that if I set out to do more and do nothing.

What didn't work?

The 10-minute blitz and the 3-day sprint.

Back in 2022, I suggested 2 practical methods to create the idea of short, doable time-frames to get things done. In essence, the first was having a list of 10-minute tasks that you could drop in and complete when you found yourself with 10 minutes. Really what was I thinking? I tried that, I had a special to-do list of 10-minute tasks – it got me nowhere.

The 3-day sprint was about setting a mini-goal to do something for 3 days only, eg, meditate, a morning walk, write a blog post. I did do that a couple of times, but that fell by the wayside.

You know they were too hard – for me anyway.

So I have ditched the 10-minute blitz and am sharing something that REALLY works for me: the 5-minute miracle - which you can read about here >

And the 3-day sprint has morphed into the 2-day sprint, and so far that is working for me too! (Read about the 2 day sprint here >)

When something isn't working, change it – make it easier.

What did work?

The 3-step post-it-note hack

You can read about it here >

How do I know it worked? I've since seen versions of it on some other sites (mainly ADHD sites). Maybe we invented it at the same time – or maybe they saw it and tried it themselves and embraced it.

That's how knowledge and ideas work. When they are good or helpful or funny or interesting they are shared. We're all in this together.