Detecting Problems for the Individual Contributor

[Molaskes]

First decide how and where you will keep your self-management projects regarding your work as a BWTT contributor. Do you work better with pen and paper or on the computer? Thus create either a physical or a digital folder for all your BWTT self-management, and therein prepare a list (e. g. a first blank sheet of paper that gets a headline, or on the computer a first plain-text, rich-text, or database file) for Step 1 of the BWTT Workflow. The headline might be “Detected Problems as a BWTT Contributor”.

You may give each of your problems actually a unique project code for your own use, and you may list each problem with the following columns:
 

PA	SD	SI	Name / Project Code	Description
			...	...

 
The first three columns can have checkboxes for any finished further Workflow steps (Problem Analyzed, Solution Developed, Solution Implemented).

Next set up a surefire way for you to regularly revise and update your list, best via some calendar system that you already use, or start one for this first task, again using either pen and paper (wall, desk, or notebook calendar) or some computer calendar software.

Find a frequency for this that suits you best, for instance monthly or every three months or whatever else you prefer. Make it frequently enough to keep you on track, but not so frequently that it would annoy you.

As soon as you can make some quiet time for it, start your list with a first session of writing down any problems that might stand between you and your will to effectively and efficiently contribute to the BWTT, for instance to solve some problems you yourself have in the world, or to just fight for a better world as such. The following questions provide a basic guide for detecting such problems, but perhaps you can come up with even further questions to ask yourself.

1. What are your personal goals for contributing to the BWTT?
   What do you want to achieve by it?
2. Are you satisfied with the amount of time you invest into it?
3. Do you have enough energy for it?
4. How do you feel about it? Are you stressed or do you feel nicely in control?
5. Should you perhaps generally improve your self-management?
6. Do any things that you have never questioned and re-evaluated yet
   seem to hamper you in working effectively and efficiently in the BWTT?
   Should you search for actual truth and the objectively best ways to do things?
7. Can you further optimize your life, or your relationships,
   so that it would benefit also your work in the BWTT?
8. What or who distracts you, how much and for how long?
9. Do you have a steady high motivation,
   or is it often too low, or does it fluctuate much?
10. Have you got a good work-life-balance, also regarding the BWTT?
11. How is your health, and could you further improve it?
12. Which fields of competence could you gain or further improve?
13. Are there areas of benevolence that you could work on?
    Certain groups of people, individual persons, animals, nature, ...?
14. Are there any skills that you could learn that would improve your work,
    make it more efficient and/or effective?
15. How is your communication with other BWTT contributors?
    Do you get along and interact with all of them well?
16. Have you got any questions about the BWTT?
17. Have you got any problems with the BWTT?
18. Do you protect your personal security well enough as a BWTT contributor?