Hello and welcome to this site. The aim of mjl-tek is to help people organize their lives and their work using systems and software embodied by [[The Trusted System]].
Our lives are filled with different contexts each of which have tasks. I call this Many Thinking Hats. In each context we are required to think differently. Sales and production both have specific challenges.
Self-employed people have the challenge of both running a business administratively, and producing the products or services. This is often a luxury of employment, where one can focus on a specific area, and specialize. However, any domain can expand to produce lots of tasks.
The independent knowledge worker must assume many roles: producer, salesperson, accountant, time and project manager, strategist, and marketeer.
While providing core services, or sell products, you must, like any business, also be prepared to sell your services. This means coordinating actions both to fulfil orders and to generate future business.
A knowledge worker must do the added value work but also determine, set and organize their priority.
A sole trader might often find themsleves both asking and replying to the question, and the most fundamental one is: "Is this a good strategy to pursue?
## Capturing experience
My journey with note-taking started with Google Desktop, which allowed us to index documents for the first time. A little while later came Evernote, which allowed us to comment on them, put them in context, and link them together.
It was a valuable scratch pad, a playground, a fertile terrain for developing ideas, a place in to write to oneself! But Evernote's performance issues became frustrating, and most useful development seemed to stall. And like many, I drifted away.
And then came Obsidian, which works on any platform, and provides many functions to write, store and link notes. But what really attracted me to it was the graph view.
- You can publish to a custom domain,
- You can create flowcharts and mind maps on a canvas
- It allows you to create tags to navigate freely across themes.
- And there are many interesting plugins.
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## Building projects from experience
Change management is the process by which creative ideas are transformed into real world achievements. This is an invitation to record that experience, good and bad, on which to base future projects.
First, ask yourself:
- What are you trying to achieve?
- What is your objective, to change a situation or a system?
- Are you committed? What is your motivation?
Are you responding to an internal desire or a necessary adaptation to new market conditions?
There is now a huge source of information available, in addition to your own observations. We discuss some of the ways you catalogue and sort it, to make reasoned decisions in the present about the future.
## Project Management
Do you react proactively to new information? There's no magic bullet. The solution is to write it down, to express it. When you encounter a problem, identify potential solutions. See if you can solve similar problems together as a project.
We share some ideas about how to transform all that thinking into actions that will generate the best opportunities. Extensively using Trello.
## Our values
Our aim is to help people organize themselves and manage their workload. We use mind mapping and journaling to assess situations and environments more objectively.
Achieve a calm mind by applying the [[Getting things done GTD]] idea of capturing as much of what has your attention, and encourage you to journal and take notes using your version of [[The Trusted System]].
We aim to help people with the stress of work situations, those who might feel under pressure, or don't know how to say no, to manage their time, and their priorities.
This may mean establishing a personalized plan as an aid to communicating the consequences of decisions between team members.
We support the idea of self-management and autonomous responsibilities, in taking the time to work, setting boundaries, self-respect, and setting [[Smart objectives]].
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