LondonCalling
Registered
Dear GTDers,
As a relative newcomer to GTD I felt compelled to write my first post to the forum due to the rather strange affect it has had on me. I first read GTD about 8 months ago- thought it was great and immediately implemented about 50% of it which gradually reduced to about 10% by x-mas. I then innocently picked the book up again during the x-mas period (thinking about new year resolutions etc) and have been ‘obsessed’ every since. GTD is constantly on my mind and I’ve been waking real early - 4/5 am. I was up at 4.30am yesterday preparing a consultation paper for next week. My job is busy, like most others I suppose and a few of my large projects have some important deadlines in January but this feels very different to being ‘stressed out’. I worked in psychiatry for years before going into senior management in the NHS public sector so I know abnormal mental health. I have some symptoms of depression (e.g. early morning waking) but I’m just TOO DAMN HAPPY!! It’s more like being in ‘flow’ most of the time- I think I’m excited by the fact that I really feel on top of things at the moment for the first time in ages and I’ve managed to keep it up for two weeks!!!- As a guy, thats not bad as new years resolutions go. I think DA is right about how different the book can be second time around (Ok, hands up... I read it for the third time last week)
Anyway, I’m probably about 70% implemented- but as you can imagine I still haven’t got the ‘review’ in place- that is going to need practice- I just end up working on one or two projects rather than reviewing. I scrapped my old filing system (or more like ‘filling’ system) and did it the GTD way with a label machine-what a difference. My filing cabinets dont have this metal mechanism that David Allen refers to in order to keep the files in place but I found a really effective substitute- a large metal book end (5 star book end- the L shaped kind that slip under the files to keep them in place)- so, no more hanging files for me- apart from my tickler files.
I am hoping that my sleep pattern returns to normal through the therapeutic use of the GDT forum which I will hopefully post to once in a while. I really enjoy reading the posts and especially the descriptions of each individual’s systems and interpretations/embellishments of GTD.
My very best to you all.
LondonCalling
As a relative newcomer to GTD I felt compelled to write my first post to the forum due to the rather strange affect it has had on me. I first read GTD about 8 months ago- thought it was great and immediately implemented about 50% of it which gradually reduced to about 10% by x-mas. I then innocently picked the book up again during the x-mas period (thinking about new year resolutions etc) and have been ‘obsessed’ every since. GTD is constantly on my mind and I’ve been waking real early - 4/5 am. I was up at 4.30am yesterday preparing a consultation paper for next week. My job is busy, like most others I suppose and a few of my large projects have some important deadlines in January but this feels very different to being ‘stressed out’. I worked in psychiatry for years before going into senior management in the NHS public sector so I know abnormal mental health. I have some symptoms of depression (e.g. early morning waking) but I’m just TOO DAMN HAPPY!! It’s more like being in ‘flow’ most of the time- I think I’m excited by the fact that I really feel on top of things at the moment for the first time in ages and I’ve managed to keep it up for two weeks!!!- As a guy, thats not bad as new years resolutions go. I think DA is right about how different the book can be second time around (Ok, hands up... I read it for the third time last week)
Anyway, I’m probably about 70% implemented- but as you can imagine I still haven’t got the ‘review’ in place- that is going to need practice- I just end up working on one or two projects rather than reviewing. I scrapped my old filing system (or more like ‘filling’ system) and did it the GTD way with a label machine-what a difference. My filing cabinets dont have this metal mechanism that David Allen refers to in order to keep the files in place but I found a really effective substitute- a large metal book end (5 star book end- the L shaped kind that slip under the files to keep them in place)- so, no more hanging files for me- apart from my tickler files.
I am hoping that my sleep pattern returns to normal through the therapeutic use of the GDT forum which I will hopefully post to once in a while. I really enjoy reading the posts and especially the descriptions of each individual’s systems and interpretations/embellishments of GTD.
My very best to you all.
LondonCalling
