jettyke Wrote:What I am talking about is how to find your next step when you can not/are not able to find it. (when you are lost).
If you know what your goal is, write out all the steps involved in reaching it. Go down the list and put a tick mark next to each step that -could- be done without doing one of the other steps first. Draw arrows or go through make another set of tick marks (or #2's) for things that depend only on the first set, repeat until everything has a priority. Rewrite the list in the now identified dependency order. Start doing the things that don't depend on anything else. If one of your first-steps can't be done then write down the reason that it can't be done, then rewrite that reason as a task, and renumber your steps. Repeat until you have something you can do.
In practice, I've never completed this process. I get a half-organized list and then start doing something, once my thoughts are in sufficient order to have identified something that can be done. This may be less effective than actually completing the process - my father is much more successful in life and always completely writes out his detailed lists, and the 'organize yourself' type books say to finish writing the lists first, -then- do stuff.
If the above sounds unreasonable, then I can only presume that you don't have a clear goal... deciding what you want your goal to be is, of course, an utterly different process. I recommend long walks in the woods, without any electronic devices, alternated with taking in the arts that you enjoy - whether that's the museum of fine art or a rock and roll concert. Or perhaps take in arts that you don't know if you enjoy - that might shake things up more.
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