My previous GTD system was failing, so I am reworking it. I got really stressed yesterday because I was in a bad transition where I had lots of things to do, didn't have a new system to track them, and didn't want to track them with the old system. It occurred to me that a busy and stressful period (like cleaning up all the loose ends to leave your job, while also running a nonprofit, selling a property, ...) is probably not the best time to change task systems :).
So I made a "crisis period" list of only the projects & items which have to get done over the next week and a half, reviewed my old system and unprocessed new system "stuff" to pick out only those items, and am working only with that set of things for now. It looks much less scary when it's all down in one place.
Lots more on my GTD rework in a week or two when I have time to finish it :).
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I use MindJet Mindmanager, which I love love love.
One o clock here, and i just about finished doing emails and such (and other usefull stuff like posting here). Seen from a positive angle, seems like there is a lot to gain for me still. :)
If I could *make* myself do key, necessary tasks first and at the same rate/efficiency at which I can accomplish them at the last minute, it's entirely possible that I'd be less stressed and maybe even more productive overall. I've just never managed to pull it off for any extended length of time.
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Two main problems that strategy runs into:
I have a hard time making myself believe "artificial" self-imposed deadlines and routinely miss them. Yes, one could say this is a simple matter of will-power, but there's a limit to how much energy I want to spend fighting myself to accomplish what mostly looks like schedule re-arranging.
I'm not at all a morning person, so all other things being equal managing a lot of good work in the morning is still more difficult for me than managing the same thing in the afternoon.
I am also not a morning person. It's taken kids to make me get things done in the morning, and even so, it takes me a while to get going. For me, the big life-changer is being dressed before the kids wake up. Somehow, it changes everything, and I don't really know why.
Newt