Hobby Sprints - The 2024 Plan
Life is a Sprint not a Marathon
Whilst mulling over how I could evolve my plan for 2024, I had an idea. Stealing from “Agile” project management methodology, I thought about approaching the year as a series of “sprints”.
Each month, at the start of the month, I will decide which project I am going to focus on for that month. No long term pre-planning, I will allow myself to decide what I am motivated to work on, and then work on that for the month. I will set some achievable goals and if it all goes well can do some other things as well. This will allow me to be agile throughout the year to changing external motivations (OTT challenges, or new game released or whatever) and cycle through my projects to maintain variety.
I put a template together to help me to plan, and filled it out for January. The project I am currently most motivated to work on is CodeBlade, I am really excited to test out the rules with more factions and so I have given myself January to do just that! It’s quite liberating to think that I can choose a new project for February, and gives me motivation to achieve those January goals.
I have looked ahead a few months, not so much to pre-plan those months, but to understand what the external influences might be that could inform what I might be motivated by. It is comforting to know that other projects will likely be coming up the pecking order as things like TV series, or OTT challenges come around. I can start to think about what I MIGHT want to do, but will leave the decision to that month.
Let’s see how it goes!
I hate the idea of taking corporate concepts and applying them to my regular everyday life. I will agree that taking small steps forward as an overall progress forward is good. I take it as the phrase my father repeats from time to time “How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time”. Same idea without the baggage.
Good for you, though, to find that the long haul can be managed in smaller jaunts. The wiggle room for tolerances is also good for being reasonably kind to your expectations.
Yes, i know what you mean. I did take a look at the detail of Agile and thought nope – too project managementy and too boring. So I just took the concept by way of an approach. The full method is fine when you NEED to get something done, but hobby is about what you WANT to get done. So it’s more about motivation. I’m hoping this way of looking at things will help with that motivation! We will see…