The personal Kanban experience is enforcing the way I define goals each week. When I write on the post-it, that goal is possible because I imagine it how it should be finished.
At my first week with this tool, I noticed that with my board always insight I have a global view of the tasks that I need to finish. And that is really important, because it gives the feeling that you are progressing. It is my first week with this, and I am very lazy, so with this board I get an additional pressure to finish my tasks.
I felt the need to signalize blocked post-its (blocked post-its are tasks that are blocked from some reason) to differentiate from other tasks. That way you get an extra-motivation because it does not only depend on you if that task is not completed.
At the end of the week I make the question “Why you are not completed?” to each one of the post-its that are in the backlog column. Off course the answer should not be laziness, if it is, you need to change something like DON’T PROCRASTINATE (like me sometimes).
Conclusion:
The personal Kanban tool is still a very recent experience for me, and I am still learning how to be more effective and productive. The column “done” of the board is very important for me, because it gives me the motivation each time I complete a new task and see a lot of post-its there.
