Hrlakat said:
Watched the webinar today - I echo the thanks to Meg and Kelly!
​My goals for the next two weeks are (since I'm getting a late start):
Capture - make a list of all my inboxes and add these to my weekly review checklist
Clarify (my lowest scoring area) - get each inbox to zero 7 times over the next 14 days (this will be a stretch - not so much for deciding what an item is, just the discipline of looking at those inboxes that aren't on my phone!); put workflow diagram up at home desk (it's on my wall in my office); R&D a time / trigger to empty an inbox (at work, I do this during my first cup of coffee)
Organize - move a lamp that prevents me from opening my filing cabinet (duh!); move active project support folders closer to my work station (some are here, but I can move things around to move the rest of them closer); make a "one-off" folder (aka action support - I just ignore the phrase "action support" so these paper items stay in one of my inbox boxes that also contains backlog I want to work on - would be good to get these segregated)
Reflect - go through each of my physical project support files in the next Weekly Review (another stretch! I tend to keep my project NA's in OmniFocus so I don't have to go through these each WR)
Engage - by doing all the items above!
​My report card:
Capture - done. I realized I didn't have my traveling / commuting inboxes on the list, so they've been added.
Clarify - succeeded with 1/2 of the email inboxes, got the rest empty about 3 times each. What I realized by going through this Challenge is that I have too many inboxes, so emptying some of the email inboxes was repelling me. I set up Outlook on my new PC and now funnel all the email inboxes into one place. That resulted in meeting the challenge for some of the inboxes that hadn't been properly cleared in a long while (though both do have backlog - and I chipped away at some of that as well!). I also found two triggers to clear personal email inboxes - morning commute and during my lunch break - which has helped me clear them down to zero in the evenings.
I also realized that I was getting too much "junk" email. I'm on a few mailing lists because I'm interested in an associated blog, but that comes at the price of a lot of unrelated sales emails. So I unsubscribed from those lists and now have a project to set up an e-reader to follow the blogs instead.
I'll put up the new GTD workflow at home when it shows up - man I love it when things get done *** automagically ***
Organize - lamp moved (and did a lot of filing, project folders moved closer to my work station, made the folder.
Reflect - not done. Will schedule time to do this over the next week (can't do a really long WR today).
Overall, I'm glad I did the Challenge. It helped me identify parts of my system that I had gone numb to, that weren't working as well for me as I could.
Looking forward to the next one (summer?).
Heather
