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Thursday, October 28, 2004

 
9:58 PM: serious matters day [#] [0]

so sven and i signed a piece of paper yesterday (well, several pieces of paper) that gives us the ability to make decisions about the other if they're unconscious or otherwise unable to communicate. michael hall & alison witnessed it even though they were sick.

in general, the idea of a "serious matters day" each month seems to be a fairly okay way to deal with big scary things like death & finances. the trick is to only tackle ONE thing at a time. even doing just one thing a month is more than you would have done if you did nothing. the other trick is to allow yourself to carry over the one thing to another month if you've overestimated or have a few more details that need to be handled. back to my favorite rule: something is better than nothing!

i had initially thought one of these per year would be sufficiently better than nothing, but having done one i now see that the momentum is pretty useful. and because you can slide a project across several serious matters days, it limits the "i have to get everything perfect the first time" mindset. it also means that you can be fairly flexible in case you run into holidays and such. and it means you can reserve one of the serious matters days per year to simply review everything to make sure it's still accurate.