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December 29, 2006
Wind Storms
I'm the first to admit that the weakness in my workflow is email. I LOVE EMAIL--especially new email. New email is always more exciting than the stuff I got 5 minutes ago, much less 5 months ago. I have to really watch that I don't stay stuck in front of the fire hydrant of Send/Receive all of the time, at the expense of the work I've already defined. I'm probably not alone in this :)
Well, our email server has been down for the last 24 hours due to a major wind storm in Ojai. I have had no business email during that time. Nothing new to distract me from the things I need to do, could do or might like to do, such as the value-add stuff I tend to put off: seminars I could listen to, articles I could write, books I could read, PowerPoint slides I could update, etc. These kinds of things have no due date and no one tracking me on whether I do them or not.
Over the years, it's been interesting to me to see the progression of my GTD systems. I have pretty well mastered the action and project levels. I'm very well organized by most people's standards, but that doesn't mean I am always working on the right stuff. The good news is that I'm getting better at recognizing when I'm stuck on a track that's not the best one for me. Sometimes it takes a wind storm to shake things loose.
Posted by Kelly at December 29, 2006 09:54 AM
Comments
Thanks for finding the silver lining, Kelly.
Posted by: Robert at January 2, 2007 12:35 PM
