Quote Originally Posted by CSicking View Post
Your New Years Resolution example is spot in. In fact, that's exactly why I picked up GTD and OmniFocus at the beginning of the year, I set a goal to try and make myself more productive this year! Trying to work that brain muscle instead of my flabby arms...for now.

I first ended up buying OmniFocus because while I liked the core concepts of the GTD system, some of the implementations described in the book (filing cabinets, paper trays, folders, etc) seemed a bit out of date for myself. I was really looking for a solid digital system I could track so I went with OmniFocus.
Goal: make myself more productive this year!

Is it really a goal? What does it mean? How do you measure it? By amount of work done? What work?

Who is more productive:
- Beethoven who composed his 5th Symphony over the space of some four years (distracted by other projects)
or
- PSY who studied hard to find something new and stayed up late for about 30 nights to come up with the "Gangnam Style" dance?

OmniFocus? I think it is a great software but making two big changes at once is very, very difficult. By two changes I mean learning and implementing GTD and OmniFocus. That is why I always advise to use the tool you are proficient with at the beginning (for most people it is a paper).