Horizons of Focus - tips?

Poiboy2000

09/19/2015 00:34

Wondering if there is a recommended way to handle the 5 Horizons of Focus?

For example, 10,000 Foot list of projects seems obvious that you would review the PROJECTS functionality of Doit.im.

20,000 Foot (Areas of Responsibility) - seems like a recommended best practice is to have each area defined in the GOALS functionality.

30,000 Foot (6 to 24 month goals) - again, this seems intuitively managed in the GOALS functionality

40,000 Foot (3 to 5 year vision) - is this something also best kept in GOALS?

50,000 Foot (Life Purpose) - perhaps also something in GOALS?

I would like be able to review each Horizon at various frequencies and also be able archive when some things are done (e.g, when a goal is achieved, when a project is done, when a area of responsibility changes) to look back every once in a while or to use as reference...

I welcome suggestions for best practices people have found that seems to work for them...

Thanks!

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• 1up  (积分：10)07/28/2016 03:45
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  I'd like to know that as well. I think the 5 horizons of focus as defined by D. Allen are the sceleton and the reason for all smaller parts of this process to work.. So without them established in place I dont see the machine turning all its wheels as you pump on tasks inside it..
  
  Goals is a great section in Doit.im, but how do you make use of it from the perspective of the 5 horizons?
  
  Where are the GTD masters and gurus? Anyone tried to impleent this so far?
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• JohnP2  (积分：175)11/20/2016 10:12
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  I'm not a GTD master or guru (although I sometimes perform as one in real life). I do think, in all seriousness it's being overthought. Things like this I like to to strip down and then recondition everything.
  
  While I'm very familiar with the fancy sounding concept noted above, at it's core all we are looking at is five views. A few of them are static, and others are merely a category title. The challenge? The concept is just that, and intended, thus delivered in a linear fashion. High to low. Each level lower containing more granularity of the level above it....no? While I'm new with this app, I did not see where it had the capability to next anything five layers deep, so now it's a matter of bastardizing things. Or.....
  
  
  So...
  50k (Do you really need to store this in the app? i.e. this seems more abstract in that everything is assumed funneled through so unsure of the advantage of using a property layer just for this. But then we ask...why? Why do you want to categorize as such? Is it to have a more concise picture of things?.Is it a once-every-x-[timeframe]' excersice? Or...are you literally allocating buckets of time to specific mid-term goals? In reading your post it seems you want to simply have a view that says "Show me tasks associated with my 30k view",,,,or 'I'd to see the tasks I accomplished to achieve this goal under that Area of Responsibility"...is that correct?
  
  I'm asking because one 'mistake' I often see people doing is trying to comeup with ways ot enter data that has zero value being in the system? I used to always enter very specific contexts, areas, energy levels etc, until I realized....I don't need that information so why am I adding it? Just food for thought...
  Back to your question, my suggestion is to take something as disparate as this and keep it simple: tags.
  Create a 10k tag, a 20k tag, etc.I mean if the only reason you are wanting ot associate this string of text with a group of task is for filtering purposes...tags.
  
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• bowmandm21  (积分：75)01/11/2017 18:27
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  Unfortunately, "tag" implementation is doit.im is seriously flawed.
  
  You can search the doit.im group/forum history for in-depth discussions of this issue.
  
  As well, Goals in doit.im are seriously flawed and very little value.
  
  I find that from a workable GTD standpoint, the Today, Next, Scheduled, deadline and Project features of doit.im are the most reliable and useable. Your mileage may vary.
  
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