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GTD in physical space: how good are you?

I was wondering if those who rigorously implement GTD in their work also have a clean work environment.

From your perspective, are they simply co-incidental, or does one support or cause the other?

I try to implement GTD (as far as I have been able to read thus far) but I have a somewhat messy apartment (though my office, where I do most of my work and receive students, is pristine).

I see an interesting parallel between those who say "I have a system that works" both for GTD and for a messy space.

Thoughts?

TOPICS: Life Hacks
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everything has its place!

aef;9805 wrote:
When I first got into GTD I went from terminal slob to psychoticly organised. ...
b) it's much easier to tidy up, because everything has its place, even if it isn't in it right now, ...

i have the same feelings as anthony. one of the big things about GTDing my life was that everything has an "away" now...so i can actually put it "away." SO MUCH of my stuff didn't even really have a place to go, so OF COURSE I couldn't put it away!

I am also a big fan of lots of desk space...i have one big desk and a drafting table. the drafting table I keep at an incline so I can't
stack stuff on it. (But I can masking tape things in place.) Great place for really big mind mapping (i.e. across many sheets of paper.)

 
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