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New to GTD and wondering....
Metaphor | Mar 9 2006
Hi All, Ok so I am new to GTD but the more I read and the more I dabble the closer I am to realising this is something I really need to implement myself! Just as some background I am currently the Sales and Marketing Manager for an IT company here in the UK. It is a relatively new position (Nov 05) and I have made the move to IT from the Pharmaceutical Industry. It's a high pressure job and organisation is paramount. Frankly a written list of things to do on an A4 sheet just isn't cutting it for me! (I need to be organised to keep my motivation and productivity high) So far I have decided on a 'media' to use for my GTD and that is by way of the lovely gtdtiddlywikki (ok so its a little flakey on Safari but it does mean I can just use Firefox for just that and not clutter it with multiple tabs of web pages). My intial question is regarding the overall implementation of GTD and to see what you all thought. Should I use a seperate GTD list (ie seperate gtdwikki) for work and home life? I know I can have an @Work catagory on the 'list' but I just feel maybe my work/home stuff such as projects will get intertangled (made up work I think) and this could well detract from the whole GTD process. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated and I am sure this is just the first of many questions as I begin my GTD powered life!! Cheers Jon 3 Comments
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 Another thing that will help...Submitted by Berko on March 9, 2006 - 4:25pm.
Another thing that will help you make this choice is considering if any of either spills over into the other. Do you ever have to bring home work to finish? Do you ever make calls you need to make regarding something at home while at the office? I find that my life isn't that dichotomized, so I simply use contexts. Essentially, you are talking about creating two "meta-contexts" for yourself. I think this can work to your advantage if they are truly that separate. Being able to focus on work because you can say to yourself, "I have a whole other system in place for that" when home things come to mind. For me? I find myself checking my bank account at work, getting phone calls and working on Excel macros at home, doing research for school at both places. Remember the words of the David: You should have as many collection buckets as you need and as few as you can get away with. I think the same goes for systems or meta-contexts. If it works for you, so much the better. Try it out, but like was said above, get your work situation under control first and then fit your home context how seems best. » POSTED IN:
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