MealChecks

How to get into Second Life without really trying

Selby Evans is Thinkerer Melville in Second Life

Meals are a convenient time to notice the unnoticed.  Several Thinkerer pages suggest specific things to pay attention to on MealChecks.  To use MealChecks, print out a set of two or three related questions to think about at mealtimes.  Or print out a set of Cuepons and pick three at a meal.  With Cuepons, the questions to ask your self are:

Could I have used the idea here in the last day or so?  Did I?

Did I see a time in the last day or so when someone else could have used this idea?  Did they use it?

Tools: Memory 

Time Control

Cuepons

Caution:  If you are tempted to take on two MealChecks at the same time, give up now and save yourself the trouble of learning that doing two jobs at the same time means half-doing both of them.  

If you don't have any other MealChecks working, here is a set you might try.

What did I do recently that I wish I had done better?

What do I need to do to figure out how to do it better the next time?

Chop jobs into joblets
At each meal, ask yourself the questions.  Don’t spend more than five minutes on these questions. Try not to think the answers in words. Just use your imagination to see yourself working on the joblets. You can chew and imagine at the same time. 

If your meals are too busy for MealChecks, find another regular time. For example, while you drive, walk, or exercise.
Goal-of the-Month Club
The Thinkerer 10/25/2008
Copyright (c) D. F. Dansereau & S. H. Evans

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