Operationalizing my autumn goals
My inner toddler is effective at subverting my higher self’s deeper ambitions, so I’m always looking for ways to keep myself on track. As such, I’ve reorganized the tabs of my twelve-tabbed plastic file folder (the black thing with the butterflies and such on it in the picture below) so that they reflect my stated autumn priorities. This way, every time I reach into that aesthetically-pleasing bucket, I’m reminded of how my sober self wants to divvy up her time.
And so, waterfalling from my autumn goals
- Maintain balance between incoming & outgoing funds
- Find my home within academia
- Own statistics
I’ve re-jiggered my folder-thing s.t. the tabs read, from front to back:
- Incoming $: anything related to consulting gigs or any other sources of incoming loot
- 415 G: shorthand for my address; documentation regarding the agreements my roommates must sign
- Bills
- Stats: documentation for my statistics class which starts Wednesday
- PhD: anything related to the doctoral program application process
- MS from MBA: paperwork for changing my intended degree at Baruch from an MBA in Marketing to an MS in Statistics
- Read me: journal articles and other stuff I want to read, sourced through my Google alerts for “behavioral economics” & “rational choice theory” plus traipsing around professors’ publications
- Secret pile: a top-secret initiative that I can’t expand on just yet
- Yale: stuff related to my role as Class Secretary
- Academicize: ideas and/or works-in-progress for possible papers to submit to academic journals
- Linear algebra
- Cancer: materials related to how I feel about my ex doing battle with cancer
What kinds of organizational schemes have you cooked up regarding your paperwork? What’s worked for you and what hasn’t? Why?
