All the Little Things (Getting things done)

Posted by kevin Tue, 07 Jun 2005 04:25:58 GMT

You ever notice, how some days, you sit down and work and work, but at the end of the day, can’t say what you did? But you really were working hard!

I’ve been reading the wildly popular “Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity” (David Allen) lately, and while I’m a pretty organized person, some of it makes sense to me. I definitely plan to try having more folders to put things. Mostly I’ve solved that problem already though by just having a ‘todo’ list (yes, on paper gasp) in front of me, and whenever something comes up while I’m in the middle of something, I add it to the end instead of doing it right then. I get distracted a lot, I was A-D-D as a child.

I think the more important realization, though, is there is just a bunch of junk in life that you really have to do before you can get work done. And on a new computer, that’s at least a few days work. For me, a whole day was more time than I could imagine, so I was really frustrated that it took me longer than that. Plus playing with all the new changes in OS X, etc. Getting accustomed to the environment, and staying a fairly up-to-date in computerisms takes a lot of time.

So relax, stop trying to hard, and know that forward progress is more important than manic fits of seems-like-productivity.

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