In order to avoid adding a patch (I like to fully use what's there before adding anything), I consider some of these recurring tasks into hard landscape as well as projects. In other words, they go on my calendar. Gassing up my car and checking the oil/water/air/etc happens on my way home from work on Friday and I tickle it every week. I don't do NAs during that time. Home/self maintenance tasks like running the dishwasher and flossing teeth every night (daily calendar = hard landscape) or vaccuuming behind the refrigerator grill (yearly = tickler file) can fit into GTD without additional methodology.

Fitness goals fit in, too. Making tomorrow's healthy lunch and laying out workout gear every night = hard landscape. Buy a new yoga video and mat = project.

When it comes to relationship issues, I find myself dropping ticklers and projects in as they come up in my thoughts and in my journal. Birthdays go in the tickler file. Keeping a gift idea list (at various times, I've done it both on paper and in a Palm) has generated way more ideas for me than keeping it all in my head. My brother-in-law's birthday is coming up? Consulting the list shows a book about a country he traveled to recently.

Implementing GTD and writing things down has raised my relationship awareness. Right now, two of the items on my @email list are to answer emails from old high school friends. I suspect that I've had two or more similar unanswered emails in my mailbox, but before GTD they either dropped off the radar or got stuck as a low priority and never got done. Now I see that I've got some interesting people reaching out to me, and all I have to do is answer the email and schedule dinner (= hard landscape) or whatever. Keeping an Agenda list has made me realize that I have three questions to ask my mother-in-law. So when she calls about something else, I remember what I wanted to ask her. In the same call, I find out that another relative is injured. Get well flowers (= tickler file) for tomorrow, to remind me that's a timely task. As I scan my @email and @calls lists, I see that an aunt's name doesn't appear anywhere...the one whom I always hit it off with. So I might add an item to my @calls list or @home list to write her a letter or @errands list to buy her a card.

The only patch I've added here is my own journaling, which has made me aware of my desire to give back in my immediate relationships.

I don't think anything's missing from GTD. But that may be because I was implementing FlyLady before GTD, so I had the hard landscape thing starting to be under control. Not everything in GTD is an NA. It can be hard landscape or a nebulous project. A "getting fit" goal can be subdivided into a "exercise one minute more every day until I'm up to 45 mins" project, then pick a sport (next project).