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Advice pls for 'going through my stuff' 1st time
kenzi | Apr 5 2006
I can't put it off any longer and must go through my stuff. I can't move forward with GTD until I do this, but it still feels like a monumental task to me. I am going to start this weekend, and take Monday off to do it. I would greatly welcome any advice you all can give me to help me through this, especially stuff that the book didn't tell you but you wish you knew before you did it. Here is some background: the place where 95% of my stuff is, is my home office/home. I have a job that pays the rent, but it's not an issue with respect to GTD except as an action item: go to work. I run a small business out of my home (I import handicrafts from Morocco and sell them on my website kenzi.com, plus I am a henna artist taking clients at home but also doing house calls. My home office/store is about 40% of my home; I work on my computer, store my inventory, process orders, welcome clients, etc. all at home. I also work on some creative projects, some of them for the business and some just for pleasure. A lot of my business stuff is mixed in with my home stuff, plus I have boxes that I haven't unpacked since I moved 4 years ago, boxes with work stuff in them. I have mapped out my home showing where there are piles of papers (my main organizational nemesis) and also boxes of stuff to go through. I also plan to deal with the personal/home stuff as well as the work stuff since the overall disorganization of my home/home office is making me crazy. I live in a loft with NO closets (though working on buying armoires) and only open space. I have a lot bookshelves and one filing cabinet. I think that I should buy another filing cabinet. I think that is sufficient background, but feel free to ask me any questions. I really welcome any suggestions you may have. 35 Comments
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 Getting others to do GTD...Submitted by kenzi on April 7, 2006 - 3:26pm.
Getting others to do GTD is a tough one. My best friend was drawn to it because it is similar to how he does things now (same for me...but more my "ideal self"). Another friend borrowed the book and is reading it; she has hit rock bottom at work to the point where she doesn't leave the office until very late, and then can't sleep for worrying about the stuff she needs to do. I think that she has admitted that she has a problem; whether she will do GTD remains to be seen. I think my dad would totally geek out at this system; it totally plays into his pocket spiral notebook way of doing things. He has the hundreds of notebooks that he's filled over the years. The ideas are there, but they are being lost or ignored because he doesn't have a system for them. I think that with most things where you are trying to get converts (whether to score points or just make other people's lives easier) you just have to be a living example to the point where people ask you "how do you manage to do all this and seem so calm?" Thanks for the specifics about naming folders and what to put in them. I have to just have faith that all those folders won't freak me out, and will actually make sense; right now that doesn't seem possible. » POSTED IN:
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