home-based businesses / SAH moms
Being very new to GTD, and totally being sucked into the whole idea of being stress-free AND productive (sounds like an oxymoron to me), I'm interested in dialoging with others who are in a similar position... I'm a mostly stay at home mom, with a busy and evolving home-based business (been in the same business for over 8 years).
Newbie - setting up again, want GTD-vet comments.
Hello GTDers,
I've read the book. I have the addin; crashed Outlook once and have to rebuild the .pst was lost along with the OS. Que sera, sera. Since this is one of at least 50 attempts to "get organized" I am reluctant to run out and buy a PDA as it is just one more piece to manage. So I will create my own hybrid to help manage the bonfires:
I run 2 home base businesses with my husband, contracting and consulting and am considering creating a third new consulting business; have 2 kids under 10 with special needs; volunteer for our school district as Community Resource Coordinator and am thinking about designing my own college degree program while I run the household too.
My revised thoughts are to use the GTD-Outlook on my laptop to keep hard edges, and use paper system for daily's and travel along with my voice recorder. Theoretically I can update Outlook with daily pages/voice records at weekly review or when 2 minute rule applies. Doable or Amusing, comments please.
Have any GTD-veterans worked out a launch system to test the waters, or am I just adding more gasoline to the bonfire?
Susan - sfrenette@lgtspace.com
Re: Newbie - setting up again, want GTD-vet comments.
[quote="lgtspace"]Hello GTDers,
My revised thoughts are to use the GTD-Outlook on my laptop to keep hard edges, and use paper system for daily's and travel along with my voice recorder. Theoretically I can update Outlook with daily pages/voice records at weekly review or when 2 minute rule applies. Doable or Amusing, comments please.
Susan:
This is what I do. The main reason is that if I have the full inventory of things in front of me, I will spend all my time on Planning. But there's a time to "fish or cut bait" and when it's time to Do things, I only want to see what is immediate and I work better when I can personalize my schedule with pen and paper (where there is no right way for formatting, spelling and legibility). Then when I am finished a working session, or a trip out of the office or at the end of the day, I can go back into the electronic system and update the Calendar for history and the ToDo and Reference files for completions and newly-processed items. This way, my electronic system doesn't have iffy/vague unProcessed entries in it.
Andrew
(single parent, home-based business)