GTD Fails

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  1. When the two minute rule turns into two hours.......
  2. Using a dodgy electronic calendar that corrupts every other day as your tickler for the next ten years.
  3. Finding your cat in your inbox
  4. Much worse: Re-purposing a cat litter tray as your inbox and then discovering that your cat has used it for its original intended purpose.
  5. Trying to explain the concept of idea capture to your three year old.
  6. Reviewing 30,000ft+ with your three and one year olds in full screaming/ running about mode.
  7. Adding the item "Review SDMB list"- to your SDMB list
  8. Keeping something on your SDMB that you're never gonna do in a hundred million bazillion years.
  9. Re-writing the thing that you're never gonna do in a hundred million bazillion years on your SDMB list because you deleted it at last week's review.
  10. Realising that your 50,000ft life purpose is to find out what your 50,000ft life purpose is.
  11. Spending at least a quarter of an hour trying to decipher that scribbled note in your inbox or garbled thing on your voice recorder only to discover that it's another one of those Pfffft things.
  12. Writing the NA's for a surprise gift in cryptic code just in case the recipient happens to see your NA list, and then being unable to read it yourself.
I'm sure I could think of another but then that would be 13 and therefore bad luck.

Happy New Year All! :D

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treelike said:
  1. Spending at least a quarter of an hour trying to decipher that scribbled note in your inbox
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  1. I can relate...but that is pretty much everything that I write by hand. I taught a class last semester and a student who is studying to be a nurse told me that my hand writing was worse than a doctors.
 
When it's Monday morning and you are still working on the Weekly Review you began last Friday at 4pm.
 
Have you noticed... these are not GTD fails! I think these all fall under the category of "operator error"!

That said, mine is: Thinking a smaller physical inbox will repel things from showing up in it.

Dena
 
treelike said:
  1. When the two minute rule turns into two hours.......
  2. Adding the item "Review SDMB list"- to your SDMB list
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Truth.

How about: Adding "Do Weekly Review" to NA instead of doing it for a month straight
 
How is this for a fail: I read the first 3 Chapters of the GTD book and thought I had it figured it out.

:rolleyes: It took me a year to decide to finish reading it, and realized I had been doing everything wrong.
 
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