KRG paradigm

It is a practical self-management scheme that maps out one’s cognitive processing events linearly across the day as synergy of the 3 layers; It does not serve as “goal achieveing” or “success guarantee” in that it does not offer tool to determine what should be done in order for your goal to be realized; rather, this scheme focuses on a sole purpose that is make you feel better, or maintain the good-state.

As the objective, good-state is essential concept to KRG paradigm.

good-state

ideal state of the time.

An example would be focused when want to read some highly technical literature, and relaxed when trying to sleep, socially proactive when talking with friends, or energetic when exercise.

A good state often have the following properties:

not self-perpetrating

a prolonged focus session would exhaust people, as well as a prolonged relaxation put you to sleep or a rather chaotic state of mind where anxiety often see a rise.

require recovery

after a focused session, a corresponding defocus session is required if you intend to enter the focus state again.

is bodily

Meaning that it have a corresponding bodily biochemistry pattern when it is present, like level and schedule of Dopamine and other substance in our system.

can be induced

as literature shows, there are various techniques to induce focused, relaxed or physically-motivated state.

Kernel serve as the top-level entrance, with boosters to make some intermittent reward happening and/or adjust the state/schedule on que. Kerenl along would expose several general-purpose time window with some state in it, like a session where you can absolutely focus.

the GTD integration, then, take over on these sessions, as a task management system.

There are little tweaks here and there to carve some small behaviours I want in, but this is the general picture.

I wrote a little piece of software called kernel routine, for now it only runs a built-in kernel, but the booster and editing functions are coming once I have time to work on it.

Basically:

• a daily planning session which is more or less equivalent to a daily review is applied
• a daily processing session of 1 hour is scheduled at immediately after lunch
• Every focus session is totally treated as engage session

For other parts:

• capture is not managable, and is not managed in GTD(like other things under 3 minutes; just do them right away)
• weekly review is scheduled seperately, more like a project.