2.4.
You Can’t do Everything: How I’m Prioritizing What to Start, Stop and Continue in Retirement
Goal of this lesson:
Try this exercise to help you decide what you should put your focus on. I’ve used this activity a bunch before – both in my personal and professional life.
I love your use of graphs! I hadn’t thought to use such a visual representation of my goals before! And I mean, who doesn’t love a good Tableau! I’ll have to try this!
Tableau is so much fun to explore data with! I hadn’t realized how easy it was until recently. I’m still a novice at it, but I’d love to see what you come up with.
Love this method! I do something similar whenever I find myself at a crossroads in life (aka looking for a new job). It’s a great mental exercise to dream big and not set barriers for ourselves. Changing our lives depends so much on changing our habits which is a slow process.
Being at a crossroads is a good time to try this for sure. It’s sometimes hard to realize (at least for me) that I need to reevaluate in other times too.
I gotta say I love the detailed self-analysis complete with graphs! I’m a super data-driven person so I love this idea. I could see that self-analysis might be harmful for people who have a tendency toward self-judgement, but I can see real value in it for myself.
A lot of the mission statement & life goals stuff that I’ve done has ended up being super data driven. It’s refreshing to see someone else take a similar approach. So much of this work really is valuable but ends up being discounted by analytical people because they think it’s life-coachey-believe-in-yourself-mumbo-jumbo.” I’m allergic to certain language in this realm, but totally in to self-discovery and reflection.
Ohh yeah, good point – depending on the person this same exercise could come off as a lot of self-judgment. Being in the right mindset to use it for self-discovery, reflection and growth are important for sure.
I always love reading people’s well-thought-out self-analysis too! Especially when they’re reproducible activities I can try out myself. There’s some value in being able to self-assess and explore more of your own motivations, limitations, desires, and beliefs. It’s kind of like a self-guided therapy session.
Moriah Joy
December 10, 2018
I love your use of graphs! I hadn’t thought to use such a visual representation of my goals before! And I mean, who doesn’t love a good Tableau! I’ll have to try this!
Adam
December 10, 2018
Tableau is so much fun to explore data with! I hadn’t realized how easy it was until recently. I’m still a novice at it, but I’d love to see what you come up with.
Kyle @ NYPFGuy
December 10, 2018
Love this method! I do something similar whenever I find myself at a crossroads in life (aka looking for a new job). It’s a great mental exercise to dream big and not set barriers for ourselves. Changing our lives depends so much on changing our habits which is a slow process.
Adam
December 10, 2018
Being at a crossroads is a good time to try this for sure. It’s sometimes hard to realize (at least for me) that I need to reevaluate in other times too.
Financial Velociraptor
December 11, 2018
You are going to speak Japanese! So cool!
Gratz on joining the FIRE cohort.
Mr. 39 Months
December 11, 2018
Wow, you do a lot of analysis on yourself at times! An interesting exercise, but I think I will pass on this one.
Great blog by the way, will continue to keep it on my blogroll of my site.
Everyday Adventurer
November 5, 2019
I gotta say I love the detailed self-analysis complete with graphs! I’m a super data-driven person so I love this idea. I could see that self-analysis might be harmful for people who have a tendency toward self-judgement, but I can see real value in it for myself.
A lot of the mission statement & life goals stuff that I’ve done has ended up being super data driven. It’s refreshing to see someone else take a similar approach. So much of this work really is valuable but ends up being discounted by analytical people because they think it’s life-coachey-believe-in-yourself-mumbo-jumbo.” I’m allergic to certain language in this realm, but totally in to self-discovery and reflection.
Adam
November 7, 2019
Ohh yeah, good point – depending on the person this same exercise could come off as a lot of self-judgment. Being in the right mindset to use it for self-discovery, reflection and growth are important for sure.
I always love reading people’s well-thought-out self-analysis too! Especially when they’re reproducible activities I can try out myself. There’s some value in being able to self-assess and explore more of your own motivations, limitations, desires, and beliefs. It’s kind of like a self-guided therapy session.