My Effectiveness Habits.

Please, find below some instructions for using the app. The general concept is as follows:

1. Write what is your Mission in life. Your mission is a general guideline to how you will live your life, is what you see as the meaning of life for you. It is a constitution, a foundation that will govern your actions and goals. Writing your personal mission may be not a one-time action, you will need time to write it, re-write it, re-think it. You may return to it time to time. 

You can write your Mission on the My Mission page of the application.

2. Write down what concerns you have and which ones you can influence - visualise them in the circles. This will help you identify what you should concentrate on - actions you have influence on. Proactive, effective people increase their circle of influence. 

Use My Influence page for defining your influences. This page helps you visualize your worries, and concentrate on what you can change, what you can influence, not what you don't have control over.

3. On the My Roles page define your roles. This helps you look on your life from different points. You can have different roles at the same time, the role may change depending on your priorities during the week. Example: at the university you are a Student, at home you are a Husband/Wife or a Son/Daughter. 

To better visualize your role, attach an Image/Picture from Camera or from Gallery - visual information is better perceived by brain. To do so: Open Role -> Long-click on human icon in the top-left corner -> Choose source of image/picture

4. Set the goals you want to reach for each role. You can set long-term or short-term goals. Open a role, then add goals and see the goals added. 

When doing something, almost anything, the so-called classic Todos are not just actions in themselves. You do them with some purpose in mind. You want to get a result from your "do-s". This is what goals are. And if you think of that result before starting, it will help you better understand the steps you need to take to get to that result. It can help you define what exactly you want as a result. And, even can help you understand that maybe you don't need that at all :)

5. Define concrete steps - actions. You can have a single step actions, or you can define complex, multi-level project, or simple checklists. 

An action is a step in achieving your goal. Often called a todo, a task - it is something you have to get done to reach the goals. We've intentionally used the word action and not a todo or a task, because action is, after all, an action. It is a proactive word. It doesn't have an obligatory nature like "todo" and "task". 

Actions in the habits can be of 3 type: 

+ Single action - a one-step, atomic action 

+ Project - a composite action, which can contain in itself all types of actions

+ Checklist - a list of checkable items.

6. Proritize your actions using 2x2 matrix (a.k.a. Eisenhower matrix) on the First Things First page. 

Square 1 contains Urgent and Important actions - these are really urgent, burning, important things to do. Usually, they represent critical situations. You should not have much of these.

Square 2 contains Important, but Not Urgent actions - something you should concentrate on. This is something Important to you. Planned, well-thought about actions come here.

Square 3 contains Urgent, but Not Important actions - actions here are usually irritators - even if they seem urgent, since they're not important

Square 4 contains Not Urgent, Not Important actions

7. Assign tasks to week days (use weekly planning). Plan your actions ahead. Review regularly, but not too regularly.

For the matrix, your main work should go into Square 2 - you're more productive if you have your Important actions planned and under control. Remember: to be more productive, you have to do what is IMPORTANT, which might not be easy or pleasant, rather than urgent things.

Some more information can be found at our blog: http://andtek.blogspot.com.

Also, you can write us directly at ksasdk@gmail.com. If you have just any issue, feedback or a simple thought about the application that you want to share with us, we are very happy to get that.