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It makes sense to me. If you are unsure whether all your hard work is going to pay off, it makes you less likely to invest that work. A good example is the myriad of stupid worksheets a lot of us...

This sounds good to me. I don;t do it with the others as often as I do with my email, but I need to do that! Of course at home I have been working on my physical mail pile for YEARS! If I ever...

So have you read it yet?



How about now? :p

I am about halfway through. And it must be helping, because today I got a good start on paying bills, instead of dallying like I do most Saturdays. I am only here for a short time for a break -...

Sounds good to me if it works for you. I use a peer group, i.e. in a non-food-related Internet forum we have a daily thread sharing diet successes and failures and experiences. That is working...

I don't think he ever said that - I believe he just said to keep only absolute hard deadlines on there, not next actions. I know I used to be guilty of that one - I would schedule tasks hoping to...

Curse you Kelly and others! I was quite happy with Tomboy Notes, but now I have downloaded Personal Brain and it looks good too. Darn software overload!

But since I am a newbie, what will be...

I just love a nice clean Outlook Inbox! I may not have the best system in the world (I sometimes leave one or two pressing things in the Inbox until they are done), but I am feeling more and more...

I don't really use contexts very much if at all, or you could say I have them simplified to just two, @work and @home. In both cases I always have both phone and computer available so that is all...

I also get down and feel bogged down. I think the key is to stay with it and get the satisfaction of checking off those tasks that have to be done. To me it is all about inertia. I wish I had an...

And my suggestion is to let those ideas flow but put most of them on the Someday/Maybe list so that they don't interfere with what you have to get done day to day. Then review them once per week to...

I agree! Now only if you hadn't misspelled Organization. :)

Yup, the answer is what works best for you, and like was mentioned, there is a whole darn forum on this site dedicated to systems!

For me, I work in one office each both at work and home, and I...

I had to mentally laugh that you had to actually read it twice. The horror! I have read it in whole or part or scanned through it many, many times over many years! With all this speak of zen, I do...

Inertia can be good or bad.

Good when I get in the groove, keep up with my work inflow, always doing the small things right away and organizing the rest with ticklers, next actions, etc.

Bad...

I'd say it is a very good thing to do instead of "process". Doing is what it is all about!

At work it is quite a bit. We use Outlook 2003, and lately I have been keeping a clean inbox, and it feels great! I have a Time Critical HOLD folder where I try to keep most active task emails, and...

Hmm, I basically said it all in the title line, but every day I sort of scan through as I select the day's tasks, and then again at the end of they day I do a short review to see how I did against...

I don't bother cc'ing myself, I just immediately pull it out of Sent Mail in Outlook and drag to that folder "Waiting for a response". I think it can look a little pretentious and maybe...

I know that happens to me, and I have to force myself to get started on real work. The good news is inertia is with you whether you are being productive or not - the choice is up to you!
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