2022: Did All My Resolutions Fall Flat?
I. My overall approach to time management in 2022
- Practise version 2.0 of the "80/20 rule" — 20% of the effort produces 80% of the output, and since I have five 20%s, I can get 400% of the output. 2. Do only the most important things, and plan and record my time carefully. For me, work, study, family, friends, writing and health are each required coursework. Take away 8 hours of sleep and each day has only 16 hours left — how to allocate them? — Do only the most important things and cut the second-tier demands.II. 2022 in key numbersPosted 232 reading check-ins on WeChat Moments;
Published 28 articles on my WeChat public account;Wrote more than 90,000 words of diary, keeping it up for 177 days;Planned my days with my "Chenzao planner" for 122 days;Studied on the "Dedao app" for 356 days, 506 hours, listening to 282 books and reading 51;Hit my target weight of 52 kg III. My 2022 learning on the "Dedao app"I've always admired Charlie Munger's broad, well-rounded general knowledge. In life and in business alike, the breadth of one's understanding is crucial. There are four "states of knowing" — not knowing what you don't know, knowing what you don't know, knowing what you know, and not knowing what you know. My goal for 2022 was to reach the state of "knowing what I don't know". Gulping things down whole doesn't let you truly master much; the depth and granularity are so rough they're close to nothing. But done this way, my map of understanding won't have any major gaps. When I run into problems and confusion, at least I know what area the problem lies in and which direction to search and study in. Translated into a study plan, this grand goal became: in 2022, work through all of Dedao's general-knowledge courses once. Once compiled, that came to 56 courses for the year, requiring 1,231 hours (73,908 minutes) — 4 hours 10 minutes a day at normal speed, or 2 hours 42 minutes a day at 1.5x speed.
Here is what I planned to study
At year-end, I was far from finishing my plan. According to the Dedao app's statistics, here's how much I completed:
In 2023 I'll carry on with my "general-knowledge megaproject"...
III. My 2022 resolutions and how they turned out
Right, so it's time to take stock of the resolutions... Not counting work goals, I set 25 "personal resolutions" in 2022. Six were 100% completed, the vast majority were only partly done, and four were all but abandoned.
Although I fell far short of my goals, this year of learning wasn't wasted either — I really did do better than in 2021. So setting them was worthwhile, and a resolution that fell flat beats one never made. I still have to console myself — every inch forward brings an inch of joy.
At heart, none of these resolutions are goals; they are just "key results" designed to achieve the goals
That is: OKR (Objectives and Key Results)
Being able to tell "objectives and key results" apart is hugely important.
So what is my Objective?
Steady, continuous growth, and letting my teammates gain "growth and income" that match the company's development, in a "sustainable", healthy way.
IV. Some pictures
Diary — nearly 100,000 words
31 December 2022: the weight I'm handing over to 2023. Setting resolutions without ever reviewing them is just messing around. So this is my accounting to myself for 2022.Finally, some of the simplest wishes: may my friends and I, in 2023, "move forward as planned", "proceed on schedule", "arrive safely" and "finish in full"! Also, the methods and theories that have actually worked for me in time management and diet management deserve two separate articles of their own. I'm promising them here to force myself to follow through.