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Seattle Mind Camp Organizer, Andru Edwards, posted this article honoring his father.  This tells a beautiful story of a father loving a son unconditionally.

Modifying the Daily Actions Dashboard to add the Explicitly Committed Branch

Modifying ResultsManager Dashboards is kinda fun, I think. ResultsManager uses Dashboard Templates to generate Dashboards. The templates outline the contents of dashboards without defining that content. They describe the content using Dashboard Filters. You can read all about that in ResultsManager’s online help module.

One easy way to modify the appropriate dashboard template, is to find it in your My Dashboards directory under My Maps, which lives under My Documents. (These are default locations. Yours may be different.)

I opened the file called “ResultsManager Daily Actions Dashboard (Power User).mmap” and made some changes like this.

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Kyle McFarlin, a Gyronix trainer, posted yesterday about how technology attempts to define us, and urges us to think about what we would do with our time if it all disappeared.

Ironically, I think I’m constantly trying to get the technology to help me do the very things that I would do if there was no technology, only more of it. Sometimes that works, other times it doesn’t.

But Kyle’s thought certainly resonates with me. There are days when it feels like the technology is taking over and I’m being assimilated into the Borg.

Using ResultsManager to Separate Committed from Active
The Daily Actions Dashboard is ultimately where I want to see the effects of my work to separate committed activities from merely active ones.I’ll do that by creating a separate branch within the dashboard that shows only explicitly committed activities.

First, here’s a screenshot of an the sample project map that I’ll be using.

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My New Review Process

With these two concepts creating clear divisions between Committed and Active, and between Someday/Maybe and Maybe Never, I can now reassign my work to each of those different buckets using the following guidelines.

1. Identify the activities that are truly committed to other people and explicitly mark them committed. This is done in ResultsManager simply by checking the committed box on the Edit Activity dialog as shown above.
2. Identify the activities that are truly Someday/Maybe and explicitly mark them as such. This is also done in the Edit Activity dialog.
3. Identify the activities that should be punted to Maybe Never and exclude them from the dashboard or move them to a separate “Maybe Never” map.

The remaining parts of this series will cover the How To of using ResultsManager to support these modifications to my process. Next, I’ll discuss: Using ResultsManager to Separate Committed from Active.