I finally took the action to implement GTD in life and am enjoying lots of benefits from it already. However, there is one aspect that I don't know quite yet how to handle at this moment.
I work in an R&D department where we do product development and generally deliverables are determined 1 to 2 weeks before they are due. This means the time between identifying my project and delivering the result of the project are relatively short. I am familiar with the day specific and time specific actions as described in the book but if there are 10 subsequent action to come to the day specific actions which is "hand-over the deliverable", then how to plan for the 9 actions that are not day specific but all need to be done before the due date of the deliverable? And then to keep in mind that I have multiple of such projects running in parallel.
Currently I have all next actions for all my running projects defined and I look at my lists frequently where I see my tasks, which are the physical next actions. They sort on context, I see the labels for the time required for the action and the energy level needed. All following the book. But nonetheless I feel stress of not getting the actions done on time and running late for deliverables resulting in adding extra hours to compensate or not delivering the quality that is needed.
I know I must be doing something wrong but so far I can't figure it out. So I hope any of you have any tips or tricks how to tackle such issue?
I work in an R&D department where we do product development and generally deliverables are determined 1 to 2 weeks before they are due. This means the time between identifying my project and delivering the result of the project are relatively short. I am familiar with the day specific and time specific actions as described in the book but if there are 10 subsequent action to come to the day specific actions which is "hand-over the deliverable", then how to plan for the 9 actions that are not day specific but all need to be done before the due date of the deliverable? And then to keep in mind that I have multiple of such projects running in parallel.
Currently I have all next actions for all my running projects defined and I look at my lists frequently where I see my tasks, which are the physical next actions. They sort on context, I see the labels for the time required for the action and the energy level needed. All following the book. But nonetheless I feel stress of not getting the actions done on time and running late for deliverables resulting in adding extra hours to compensate or not delivering the quality that is needed.
I know I must be doing something wrong but so far I can't figure it out. So I hope any of you have any tips or tricks how to tackle such issue?