It's been a while now I'm trying to apply the GTD method. I even use a great app on my Mac, iGTD.
I'm pretty good at putting down all my To Do list and organizing it. But the problem I have seems to be pretty common: how to actually start executing the without procrastinating or loosing track. Rings a bell?
I found those tips and they seem very clever. I'll try them.
Have you? Let me know what you think, I'm eager to tackle that issue!
23 Feb 2008,
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Yes, this is familiar and the Zen list is great. As far as my eyes can see, I've observed people use the advice, others ignoring it after a few hours or days. Obviously, following it works wonders, but in particular cases it can be difficult to apply 100%.
One of my mentors' approach is solving everything immediately: phone call, or decision, or order. Immediately. Whatever is not immediate, he writes it in his phone calendar, and when the alarm rings, he does it. He fails very rarely at keeping up with this.
Myself, I sometime use my mentor's approach, sometimes I adopt the Zen habits. And obviously, this inconsistent way of dealing with it results in occasional failures. Generally, I totally favor Stephen Covey's basic view on prioritizing and organizing one's life and each week of it. It works for me, when I use it. Important things first.
Thank you Mihai for this post : I reasonnably can't think of you as having this problem, but, well, maybe because I procrastinated the question :)
As for me, I regularly have this problem with my writing activities. I once met a writer I love, and he told me that poorness was a good motivation. That's right ! Another writer, Houellebecq, also said : "Imagine that tomorrow you'll die. You'll soon see : you'll write !"
When it comes to culpability also, I move on : writing makes me feel good, and even better when I write after a long period of lazyness. Not he best way to do things, but believe me : it works.
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