Getting Things Done: Tick!

This is the "collection" phase of GTD

Following the recommendation of my brother I finally succumbed to buying a copy of David Allen's Getting Things Done. It's an almost religious experience. Pictured is the collection phase. This has now been transferred to lists, files and a vast amount of it done in two minutes flat, or just dumped - it deserved the bin anyway. This is the basic philosophy of GTD: If you can do it in 2 minutes, do it right now. If you can't, defer it or dump it.

I am now, one week on, nearly done with all the deferred items. And I've thrown out even more. Amazing how priorities change in a week.

Best of all: my intray is empty - as promised.

And as you can see from the blog posts that have started once more, I am back to my good old self - and getting even more stuff done.

Comments

[John Pederson]

Welcome to the club. GTD was probably the best thing I did for my blogging self. Completely frees your mind to try new stuff and see other things that you were preoccupied with (consciously or not).

[Mark]

But when do you get the time to actually read the book in the first place?

[Ewan McIntosh]

Hehe! It's a quick read - nothing a Sunday afternoon instead of reading the Sunday Times can't accommodate!