Blogging “Getting Things Done”
Written by sean on June 4, 2007 – 8:38 pm -
Anybody that knows me or has been reading this blog knows that I’m a bit of a scatterbrain. I have a million things that I would like to do, but for some reason I never seem to get around to finishing them. This has been the case for as loong as I can remember. At school I would forget or push off projects until I had no time left and then have to rush through them, not doing as good a job as I knew I was capable of. In my professional life, I’ve been better about it, but I still feel like I am hanging on by my fingernails.
I’ve tried various methods and tools before. I’ve used calendars and day planners haphazardly, been the proud owner of 2 different PDAs that spent a couple months gathering dust before being sold off, and most recently I’ve been walking around with enough marked up paper todo lists to make the Sierra Club weep. What I’ve come to realize is that I need a system, not just a tool to get myself together.
I had heard about David Allen and Getting Things Done for a while, but it was finally when I read a review by Trent over at The Simple Dollar that I decided that this might be something I want to look into. So I picked up a copy and decided to give it a shot. And being a child of the Web 2.0, i decided that I’ll blog about it as I’m learning so any GTD blackbelts can offer tips or pointers and other people can have some idea what the system is (or just laugh at my attempts to get organized :) )
What I plan to do over the next couple of weeks is blog Getting Things Done chapter by chapter and let you know how I’m applying it and how it is working out. Tomorrow, chapter 1
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June 4th, 2007 at 9:47 pm
I’ve been using GTD for almost a year now. I couldn’t be happier with the system.
I’d like to share the dark secret of GTD with you. Are you ready? Many GTD’ers spend more time developing and tweaking their personal system instead of actually getting thing done. It’s a terrible temptation. Especially with all the blogs and websites devoted to it. But if you stay committed to the basics of maintaining lists and reviewing them weekly, you’ll do great.
Good luck!