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Maybe a stupid one but... I'd like to experience pleasure when looking at myself in a mirror :) I thought I need at least three projects to fulfill that: sunbathe regulary, go in for bodybuilding and fitness. First, I think I need an outliner to keep them all together under "experience pleasure...
This is an email I just wrote to my new GTD friend Claudia since she so relates to my issues, and then I decided to post it. Not too cheerful, but here it is. Claudia, The worst has happened. I am as big a wreck as ever. I can't stick to any one system---I go numb to them no matter what they...
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thought I'd throw this one out into the general section of the forum: Here’s the scenario; you’re engrossed in your morning’s work, let’s you’ve got a good block of time to work on a report that’s due in a week...
One topic that I don't feel is covered in the GTD and Outlook whitepaper is how to separate personal and work items in Outlook. Initially when I configured outlook I set up a category @Personal that I would use for personal items. So I was assigning multiple categories to some items. For example,...
I don't know how many of you procrastinate, but it's one of my problems now and again. I recall a thread here a few days ago which had some interesting points, so I thought I might share one of mine, and see if anyone else had any similar hacks. We all procrastinate for different reasons, that's...
Hi, I'm an adult with Attention Deficit Disorder. I'm 37, and was diagnosed at 33, but had lived with it untreated most of my life. You can imagine the effect that had on my work life. Anyway, as I'm also a working parent, I'm desperately in need of some organization and time management....
As I’ve only been using this system a short while, I can see how it is a work in progress. Like anything else, I’ve become more comfortable with it as I’ve learned to gear my life into the ebb and flow of GTD. David has said that it takes about two years to truly “get it”. Now, it’s always hard...
I am currently migrating my pre-existing system to the GTD methodology. I've done the "Collect" (3 days), "Process" (another 2 days) and am attempting to find the best way to "Organize". I'm not finding it as straightforward to move through this stage as I thought I would because there seem to...
In programming there is a concept called "cross cutting concerns", and I'm running into a similar problem with GTD. I expect others have run into this, so I thought I'd ask. I have a next action to (for instance) talk with someone about some small piece to a project. In my mind, this belongs...
Hey guys. I just thought I’d start purging my A-Z general reference filing system for the new year. What the best way to do it? Any guidelines and tips? I tried browsing the folders earlier, and I was surprised to find some of the things that I filed. I might still look at them in the future, so...
Hi there! Happy new year! And with every new year comes the planer/organizer/calendar question... I am thinking of getting a ring-bound planer for my lists and calendar. But the one thing I realy dislike about most planers is that they have to large rings. So I am looking for a slim planer...
Hello, This may seem like a very basic question and could not find it in the forum, but I would love to get anyone's thoughts on this. I've read GTD and am making may way through Ready for Anything. I believe that I understand the concept of the weekly review to look over all open loops,...
Hello ppl , I have a simple question, when I am looking at my list , to do my daily list , ain't I automatically doing a whole sweep ? What's the purpose of the weekly review then ? Is it that some items on my do list are sheduled for sometime later(say 3-4) days and for those 3-4 items I...
Just finished reading the book Finding Flow.. I was amazed at how similar the flow experience is to GTD... its almost as if David Allen had the flow experience in mind when writing GTD.
There has been some recent discussion in another thread (Katherine's on paper implementation of GTD) on that old chestnut of the need or otherwise of a link between action and projects in one's GTD system. You can read that discussion on...
"You should have as many in-baskets as you need and as few as you can get away with." I'm trying to identify my in-baskets and track for awhile how well I do at getting them to empty, but it's proving harder than I thought to decide what "counts" as an in-basket. Do you count as in-baskets all...
Degrees of Reliance on Intuition 1. Intuition is a calculative faculty inside our heads, the details of which we are not conscious. The end results of our internal calculative faculties are feelings or sentiments. We are unaware of how the calculations were made but we are aware of a pro or con...
I'm in sales so drive a lot. And sometimes I cross off @Call NAs while driving. It's easy to cross but difficult to put new ones while drive :) And of course I forget about them. So some projects stop till the next Weekly Review. My GTD "instruments" are Outlook for WR planning + Palm Treo Windows...
I recently became the proud owner of a second-hand copy of Getting Things Done...Fast. It was second-hand enough that I don't have the paper listing all of the track names for the last four CDs, and there isn't any CD data at all on CDs 7 and 8. Would someone who owns the set be willing to...
I have a paper based system that has been working very well for me for the last 6 months, so I thought I would share. I use 3x5 index cards. On the plain side of the card, I write the name of the project. ("Plan class party"). On the back, I list next actions. I always list at least one, more if...
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