What is the most difficult in gtd for you?

[supergtdman]

I'm curios what do you find the most challenging aspect of gtd?

[TesTeq]

To honestly answer a question "What is it?" for each item in my inbox.

[dragynox]

Do. I'd much rather fiddle with the system than actually do the next actions.

[Oogiem]

I'm curios what do you find the most challenging aspect of gtd?

Processing inbox items to clear, concise, next actions and ferreting out all the hidden projects.

[supergtdman]

Interesting...
Do you think processing inbox is a bottleneck because your system is not as streamlined as it could be or is it because of lack of energy overall? What's the underlying reason?

[Petr]

Doing

[Oogiem]

Interesting...
Do you think processing inbox is a bottleneck because your system is not as streamlined as it could be or is it because of lack of energy overall? What's the underlying reason?

Neither. It's a problem because many of my inbox items will generate many next actions and often many projects and my inbox has odd items in it.

It can take 15 minutes to properly process a single e-mail message for example and one message can generate 2-3 separate projects and perhaps a dozen next actions on current or previously existing projects.

I also often have physical inbox items that are rather unique and hard to process. I bet not many folks have sheep horns placed into an inbox! Processing a lost horn cap takes time, I need to decide if it's suitable for a crook, in which case it gets a next action of take pictures of it and send to crook maker, perhaps it's more suited to be a knife handle, that gets a different next action, but if it's only buttons that too is yet a different next action. To even decide what is the real next action I need to take the time to evaluate the horn and often reference my lists of who is looking for what if it's suitable for 2 or more uses and I have waiting orders.

Right now I have some old dental tools in my inbox, they need to get processed into either my scrapbook tools, my sewing tools, or off to hubby for his electronics work. I need to evaluate each one to decide where it best fits and also look at who needs some new tools. Processing it will take a while to decide the best fit or highest need.

[Suelin23]

Organising. I have been doing GTD for 1.5yrs now and most of that has been trying to setup my organisational system rather than actually doing GTD. I think I'm there now, pretty happy with it, now I'm trying to process things. Processing is the next hardest.

[supergtdman]

By organizing do you mean non actionable data, i.e. project support and general reference or everything, i.e. projects and actions and non actinable data?

[North]

Do. I'd much rather fiddle with the system than actually do the next actions.

+1. But these days the lack of doing interferes even with the playing around with the system. My subconscious is all like "dude, is this all for nothing?"

Still, I'd get done even less without GTD.