Nerds have a tendency to systemize some things. They might not call it as such, but at all the times, they’ll have several projects ongoing. For instance, a project I currently have opened is systemizing some things for my parents so that they don’t face much problems when I’m not available (since I’m planning to move out soon). In this POV, everything is a project, e.g. buying a new phone, travelling to some city, etc.

The thing with projects is that they have a position in relation to each other. Some projects are sub-projects of other projects. For instance, a project fixing wifi problem at our home was a sub-project of the project systemizing things for my parents which was a sub-project of my moving out. Similarly some projects are more important than other projects, so you need to be able to prioritize between them. How to run and manage multiple projects in parallel is a project of its own, which improves the efficiency of other projects. Also important to note that the term “project” is just a label. It does not need something to be boring. If you are going on vacations, that too I’m counting as a project.

This point of learning their relative position, hierarchy and how they effect each other is useful, because projects are not sacred. If what you really want is A, and for that you initiated sub-projects B and C, but you later realize D fulfills A better than B and C combined and is simpler, then you can shoot B and C in the head and work on D instead. The benefit of this kind of thinking ultimately gives you an anchor point. What’s that anchor point? It’s the project of which everything else is a sub-project: Project Life. Is that project going right?