Hi

I'm sure some of the ramble I'm about to post some of you will recognise the symptoms :-)

I picked up the gtd book a couple of years ago and hey guess what? I never found the time to read it!

I'm a self employed programmer and I'm well aware that being organised in both my work and home life is key to being less stressed and more organised.

I'm taking a little time out at the moment to try and catch up on some reading and some places where my skills just aren't good enough.... and there's the catch - improving my skills is why I'm motivated by gtd.

I'm also a bit of an obsessive book buyer. If I buy the book, I get the knowledge right? Well no, because I never get the time to read em!!

So here's my problem and the thing I just have a blockage over. I want to use gtd to help me through my huge pile of technical books. How does everyone else deal with this? Do I pick a topic and then just flit from book to book? Do I read the books sequentially? How can I organise next actions? Am I taking too much on?

I'm finding gtd is making me frantic...as I'm more scared of getting the system wrong and getting nowhere.

Sorry for the ramble - hopefully someone out there will recognise the symptoms and give me a helping hand.

Best

DF