What Struck Me

It’s funny how things happen. Last week I was absent-mindedly clicking around the popular listings at del.icio.us and I found a tag that seemed pretty unusual, at least to me- GTD.

Turns out GTD is for Getting Things Done, which is the name of a book and program for organizing your life. Interesting that I’d already started to do that, so it was just what I needed at just the moment I needed it.

I haven’t actually read the book yet (it’s on order from amazon) but it seems like a pretty cool system. I’ve managed to figure out the basics from visiting various sites and I think I’m making some progress. My stuff is certainly better organized, and now I need to get working on my time.

I’ve read other books about getting past the procrastination in the past, and they’ve never worked. But that’s because I tend to spend so much time reading I never get to implementing. This time I’m already well into the implementing, so we’ll see how it goes! Hey, I’ve already knocked a whole bunch of things off that huge todo list!

What I like about the program is that it’s very practical. It’s not tied into having a perfect life or finding your reason for living or authentic self (gag). It’s just a straight forward way to Get Things Done.

And hopefully once I start to get things done I’ll have time to do the things I want to do (like update this blog, for example) and not feel so paralyzed by the things I need to do (like call the driving school to get Andy scheduled for lessons, which is what I’m going to do right now.)

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