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Help me stick to it
Nik_Doof | May 25 2006
I flout my GTD, all the time. I'm currently having real difficulties following my GTD routine and because of this i'm letting things slip. I've recently been getting home from work and not doing anything at all, flouting my next actions and deciding what to do there and then (which usually involves playing games or watching TV). Today i'm sat in work and i don't even have a copy of my NA's or my moleskine to hand, i've left them abandoned at home in my bag. I love GTD but i'm having great difficulty applying myself to it. Has anyone got any suggestions which may help me stick to my routine? 34 Comments
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 Daily NA listsSubmitted by Flexiblefine on June 6, 2006 - 8:52am.
tacojohn wrote: The other key here is a healthy understanding of renegotiating these commitments. I think David Allen dislikes the daily task list because it lends itself to not being able to renegotiate commitments. At the end of the day, it's too easy to say to yourself, "Oh, I only did 4 of the 6 things I said I was going to do today. I left myself down." As long as you don't let the daily task list rule you, then it should be fine. Sounds like you have the right attitude about it, but I would go even further (although it might just be the example you used). If I got nothing on the task list done, I ask myself why. Did too many emergencies come up? Did I have too many things that were actually time-specific, so I had no discretionary time? Did I not have enough time or energy, or the right context to do what I said I would do? As long as you approach the daily NA list as what it really is, discretionary tasks, then it should be ok. I've been using daily task lists to help get around some of my procrastination problems. I spend most of my work day in my office, so I have lots of possible NAs to choose -- which leads to perfectionist paralysis. (Which action is that absolute best one to choose? Could be this one, could be that one, could be another one... and no doing happens.) I agree that one of the keys to successful use of a daily list is to remain in control of yourself -- don't let the list dictate what can, should, or must be done on a given day. You may get the whole list done in a day, you may get other things done instead, or you may spend a lot of the day procrastinating in online forums. :) Use the list as a way to sketch out the day, and then reflect on the list at the end of your day. » POSTED IN:
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