Merlin’s weekly podcast with Dan Benjamin. We talk about creativity, independence, and making things you love.
read the book etc, not sure how to start... help!
duncanshannon | Sep 13 2006
Hi- I've been thinking about GTD for about a year now (off and on) and im switching jobs again and I think it might be a good time to try GTD. I've read the GTD book, read a bunch of posts on line about people using it, studied the GTD flow chard etc... im just not sure what my first real step(s) should be. I am having stuff start to pile up at my new job already (im not 100% sure of the scope of my responsibilites is yet either) and i want to keep track of things. My boss is very driven and I want to keep up. I've been just using a notebook so far, taking lots of notes with action items on a per day basis. They use Lotus Notes (v5.0!) which im not great with yet. I think i like the idea of Gtiddlywiki (sp?) on a USB stick to be my 'system'. I can get the 43 folders setup once i actually get my desk. I have a treo 650 but am considering getting rid of it and going back to a plain ol cell phone. How do i take my first couple of steps? Do I really need to do this for work and home life at the same time? I feel like i need to determine my "@" lists to start dumping stuff in, but im not sure I know what they should be. I know the process says to collect and process. Can someone coach me a bit here and help me get my baby steps going? Thanks much in advance. Im really looking forward to some GTD nirvana. 11 Comments
POSTED IN:
 How do i take my...Submitted by QuestorTheElf on March 10, 2007 - 4:17pm.
duncanshannon;5907 wrote:
How do i take my first couple of steps? Do I really need to do this for work and home life at the same time? I feel like i need to determine my "@" lists to start dumping stuff in, but im not sure I know what they should be. I found it useful to NOT name my "At Context" lists before starting GTD. I had tried doing something similar before I knew about GTD. That's what resulted in my having piles and piles and piles everywhere. The stacks themselves may have looked organized, yet they were very much in the way. I didn't want to destroy the nice-looking piles which puzzlingly meant I was never going to advance with the things in them. No wonder I could never clean up shop. I've found it far more productive to just collect everything of interest first. Concentrate exclusively on Collecting. Then during Processing, contexts will begin to arise. This is also in line with the bottom-up approach David Allen emphasizes in the book. And ironically, some of those contexts I first thought would make sense actually didn't once I engaged in processing. The thing I found most helpful about throwing anything into In even if it was totally unrelated with other things was how the "In" box started saying, "No matter what is in the 'In' box, I can handle it." Handling can include creating contexts. » POSTED IN:
|
|
| EXPLORE 43Folders | THE GOOD STUFF |
