So I just realized that I haven’t posted anything regarding my GTD-experiment for over a week - FAIL!
The last week was in some ways a relapse back to what I was trying to get away from. I wasn’t entirely consistent with getting up at 7am and I haven’t been completely strict with cutting down on checking my e-mail, Facebook, Twitter and stuff like that.
But compared to where I started at, I still feel that I’m making a progress towards being more productive. Suckiness, be gone.
Since I haven’t really mastered the whole early riser-thing - or cutting back on Facebooking/Twittering/etc. for that part - I guess I have to focus on these things yet another week before moving on to fully incorporating GTD and the app Things into my life.
To have something productive to do instead of the Facebooking and Twittering I’m going to schedule one hour of reading every day. I purchased something like 100 books a year ago and I haven’t even read 25% of them through and through.
I guess it’s time to get started.
4 comments so far leave a comment ↓
Anna
July 21st, 2009 at 1:18 am
Hi Seb,
Social Marketing is always a time consuming exercise if you’re just using it for Marketing purposes and it does become a chore.
I feel the same as you and less Productive when I know I have to to post, blog, twitter, facebook update etc…
I need a PA :)
Aislinn O'Connor
July 23rd, 2009 at 5:38 pm
I’m a great fan of Getting Things Done… until it comes to switching off the computer, unwinding, and getting the sleep I need to be wake up fresh and ready for an early start next morning!
On the plus side, though, I’ve found a piece of software that helps me organize my thoughts, project plans, next action steps, etc. It was written specially to work with GTD - and it’s free from http://www.thinkingrock.com.au.
Perhaps the print-outs could be a little more customizable, but I’m too glad to have somewhere to store all my ideas, information, references, links, etc, and actually know where I can find them, to be put off by that.
Best of all, it gives you somewhere to store all your ideas just as they come to you, and lets you organize and file them later - the digital equivalent of David Allen’s index cards or bits of paper.
I find it the ideal companion for GTD work, and would strongly recommend anyone who uses the methodology to give it a try.
Howard
July 23rd, 2009 at 5:52 pm
Using something like Google Reader is useful for picking up news/tips for business and life!
Just use List mode to quickly peruse areas of interest; twitter feeds can be added!
Sebastian Johnsson
July 23rd, 2009 at 9:04 pm
@Aislinn:
I actually think I’ve tried ThinkingRock but I finally settled for Things, http://culturedcode.com/things/ .
My problem is that I usually get started with it, it’s great for a while then all of the sudden I’ve forgot to add new tasks etc. Incorporating it permanently into one’s life is the hard task to tackle.
@Howard:
Thanks for the tip, I’ll give it a spin!