Here’s a sample from my use of the method to revise a draft of my dissertation chapter:įor me, not enough looked like not finishing reading my thirty page draft. This is your just right goal, and you’ll determine it by first identifying what not enough and too much look like. take some time to identify what you’d like to accomplish by the end of your session. Here’s How It Worksīefore you begin a session of productivity -be it writing, creating, grading, brainstorming, revising, coaching, etc. When we can identify what “done” or “just right” looks like, we set ourselves up for success because we know what success looks like for an individual productivity session. This reminds me of Brené Brown’s call for describing what “done” should look like to her team in her book Dare to Lead. The Goldilocks Approach is a great fit for productivity-especially for projects that lack clear instructions or steps for completion or which lack a definition of what a good final product should look like. It’s been assigned to fields ranging from psychology to astrobiology to medicine to economics, always with the aim of identifying a range that is “just right” for an ideal process to occur.
I’m not the first one to apply to Goldilocks Principle to processes outside of children’s literature. Remember the childhood story where the little girl samples the three bears’ beds and foods? Something was always too much, not enough, and just right. I’m calling this method The Goldilocks Approach to Productivity.
Having recently studied flow -the magical space of feeling challenged and intrigued -I decided to approach my productivity with intention for finding a perfect window of pleasure, interest, and effectiveness.
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