Master action list (MAL) prototype blueprint specs

unimagined futures

Developing a work approach that is adequate to the challenges ahead
a world moving toward new and different futureS

Master action list design help

Underlying principles:
- The actions that are in our best long term interest are not obvious.
  - We are responsible for allocating our lives, nobody is going to do it for us.
    
    See Joshua Abrams example
    in Part 5 "Developing Yourself: as a person, as an executive, as a leader"
    Chapter 5: "Summary: The Action Implications"
    in Managing The Non-Profit Organization
    by Peter Drucker
  - What does it mean to have a life worth living?
  - Performance measures in life health areas
  - Don't fight the glacier
    The constant movement of significant events
    - See Peter Drucker article in The Economist: The next society
    - James Burke
- Due to time constraints we are going to have to choose to abandon some items
Application specifications
- The master action list is easiest to work with if it has an outline structure and columns with multiple views
  - Several screen shots that provide examples of the master action list
    - Master action list planning view
    - Detailed work plan outline view
  - Daily work plan (appointments and to do items)
- Date columns should have a pop-up calendar
- Choice columns should offer the option of a pop-up menu or typing completion
- Rows should be sortable by any column using the list order in the column choice definition
- There should be a row matching function that allows progressive filtering
Columns and column choices in the master action list.
- Action items–Master action list (MAL) content
- Row types
  - Category records
    One place holder for each category
  - Appointments
  - To do items
- Categories (life areas and sub-areas)
  
  Every category in this structure should have a computer folder to match it and a bookmarks favorite folder
  - Life management system categories
  - Life area examples
    - Life design work
    - Education (learning)
    - Professional life
      - Job
      - Career
    - Spiritual life (The Unfashionable Kierkegaard)
      
      True faith is effective in through charity (i.e., in and through social responsibility)
    - Financial
    - Personal business
    - Relationships
      - People types
        
        Spouse
        Children
        Friends
        Moving on
        Interest associates
      - Pets
    - Health
      - Exercise & physical capability developement
      - Risk aversion
      - Food system
    - Personal care
    - Home management
    - Vehicle management
    - Fun life
      - Fun life planning
        
        Fun scenarios
      - Fun areas
        
        Tennis
        Pro tennis viewing
        Food
        Travel
        Music
        Adventures
        
        Outdoors
        Camping
        Biking
        Water fun
        
        Jet ski
        White water
        
        Videos
        Night scene
    - Citizenship
      - Political activism
        
        Transnational
        Regional
        National
        Tribal
      - Social needs
        
        Charity
        Changing the community/people
        Volunteer
- Priorities (action contribution & timing relative to an informed life design)
  - Life contribution assessment
    - Rows that need to transferred to a supporting document
      This cleans up the MAL
    - List of current (immediate future) major projects
      - Current major project
      - Next major project
      - Project after that
      - And so on
    - PyramidTop
    - Life/livingEssence
    - Major life change
    - Meaningful life change
    - Moderate life change
    - Desirable life maintenance
    - Under consideration
    - Unavoidable
    - Near trivial pursuit
    - Trivial pursuit
    - Negative pursuit
  - Timing (attention focus)
    - Now
    - Very, very soon
    - Very soon
    - Soon
    - Later
    - Much later
- When during a day would this action typically occur?
- Typical time block duration
- Date—start
- Date—end
  Optional
Master action list notes
- The items with today's date provide the text for a daily work plan (Don't have to rewrite or remember)
- Provides the tool to examine our lives
- An auto-pilot system
  Stress reduction

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