I'm on my most recent effort to get going in GTD, and am having a lot of trouble in what I call megaprojects.
I have 3 areas of my house that need a lot of work and take up a lot of my brain. They are seriously out of order and full of stuff. I have got projects and tasks related to these areas, but it is not helping me engage with those areas. The 3 areas are roughly my bedroom, a group of rooms that hold my "indoor" stuff, and the garage/shed.
The bedroom has a bunch of work to (eg) sort out clothes, clean up some stuff in there that doesnt belong, sort out what needs to be removed.
The "indoor" stuff is massive (to me). It includes all my filing and paperwork, a bunch of computers and associated items (both digital and physical) and quite a few hobbies worth of stuff.
The garage and shed have more hobby and maintenance stuff too.
My challenge is twofold. Despite having some projects related to these areas, I keep having unhelpful thoughts about these areas being so out of order. On top of this, the tasks seem so overwhelming (and probably unclear) that I avoid starting much work on it at all. What work does get done on them I would class as sporadic and unplanned. If I look at horizons of focus relatred to these areas, my thoughts around the areas is it could well be 30k-40k horizon stuff to fix (it could literally take me years to sort and dispose of this, given I have other life roles that relegate this particular role sometimes).
Is this something where I need to create several projects per area and put them all in the list, and then say most are "someday"? Do I need to just focus on single projects and do a "finish this first"? Do I rearrange my thinking from physical areas and try to recategorise them and see if that help me engage better? I just know that in GTD terms, I keep thiking about these things and I am not making progress and often catch myself doing bad procrastination on them, which makes the feelings worse.
If it helps, my tool to manage my lists is Nirvana.
I have 3 areas of my house that need a lot of work and take up a lot of my brain. They are seriously out of order and full of stuff. I have got projects and tasks related to these areas, but it is not helping me engage with those areas. The 3 areas are roughly my bedroom, a group of rooms that hold my "indoor" stuff, and the garage/shed.
The bedroom has a bunch of work to (eg) sort out clothes, clean up some stuff in there that doesnt belong, sort out what needs to be removed.
The "indoor" stuff is massive (to me). It includes all my filing and paperwork, a bunch of computers and associated items (both digital and physical) and quite a few hobbies worth of stuff.
The garage and shed have more hobby and maintenance stuff too.
My challenge is twofold. Despite having some projects related to these areas, I keep having unhelpful thoughts about these areas being so out of order. On top of this, the tasks seem so overwhelming (and probably unclear) that I avoid starting much work on it at all. What work does get done on them I would class as sporadic and unplanned. If I look at horizons of focus relatred to these areas, my thoughts around the areas is it could well be 30k-40k horizon stuff to fix (it could literally take me years to sort and dispose of this, given I have other life roles that relegate this particular role sometimes).
Is this something where I need to create several projects per area and put them all in the list, and then say most are "someday"? Do I need to just focus on single projects and do a "finish this first"? Do I rearrange my thinking from physical areas and try to recategorise them and see if that help me engage better? I just know that in GTD terms, I keep thiking about these things and I am not making progress and often catch myself doing bad procrastination on them, which makes the feelings worse.
If it helps, my tool to manage my lists is Nirvana.