My experience with ZTD / Week 3 results (3 MITs per day) : 6% success (94% failure…)

This is the report #3 of my experimental implementation of  Zen To Done the productivity methodology by Leo Babauta.

As a reminder, the first habit I’ve decided to implement is to define every morning the 3 Most Important Topics (MITs) I want / need / commit to achieve during the day.

During week #1, the success rate has been 52 % (11/21) , during week #2, it has been 47% (9/19).

Here’re the results of week #3 :

• 3 MITs for the week : Did I defined 3 MITs  ? :  YES,  How many did I achieve : 0/3
•  Day 1 (January 30th) : Did I defined 3 MITs ? : YES, How many did I achieve :0/3
• Day 2  (January 31st) : Did I define 3 MITs ? : YES, How many did I achieve : 1/3
• Day 3 (February 1st) : Did I define 3 MITs ? : NO
• Day 4 (February 2nd) :Did I define 3 MITs ? : NO
• Day 5 (February 3rd) : Did I define 3 MITs ? : NO

• Total : I’ve defined the MITs 2 times instead of 5, I’ve achieved  1/18.

 What are  my conclusions ?

• 1/18  is a very poor result.
• In fact during this week I did not use ZTD. I did not take time to define 3 MITs everyday.
• By the way, I did achieve a lot of things during this week but without planning them.
• As a consequence, my achievements are not the most important ones, so it’s not a so good result.
• I need to improve my routine when I’m travelling to make sure I define the 3 MITs before starting my day

For the new coming week, my objective is to continue the implementation of this new habit, with a better result (which will not be so difficult)  !