Hi!
David Allen says that most people have more than 50 next actions (and many have over 100!). I am just wondering if I am doing something wrong in my GTD setup, because to me that feels like a lot! - And I still feel like I have quite packed days.
I currently have 8 private ones, 10 for my job, 7 in waiting for, and like 12 in my calendar for the current week (mix off apointments and using it as a tickler file for actions)
I guess I have a few more in the "project plans" for the different projects, I try not to plan to far ahead but there a few actions there (like 10)
I do try to only have one active project for each "category" of my life (so I have like one project active for my side business, and a few possible ones to do after that one in my S/M list, without any NA specified) one project for self improvement, a few for my job etc.
I don't really put in leaisure time things in my NA either, things like "play video game x"
I guess that could be it?
It would be great if you guys could tell me how many different NAs you have in your different categories, and maybe list them if they are not to private (or list the ones that are not) and also the number of projects you got.
That might help me understand if I am doing something wrong, or just structuring things a bit different than you guys do
Three bonus questions:
1) How often should/do you empty your "in" (And do you always empty every "in" you have)
2) Should you add hard deadlines to your next actions if they exist? (so that you can see the deadline in your NA list)
3) Do you add leisure activities to your next action lists? Things like "Watch youtube" "Play computer game", "Browse reddit" and other fun stuff you like to do. Why? Why not?
David Allen says that most people have more than 50 next actions (and many have over 100!). I am just wondering if I am doing something wrong in my GTD setup, because to me that feels like a lot! - And I still feel like I have quite packed days.
I currently have 8 private ones, 10 for my job, 7 in waiting for, and like 12 in my calendar for the current week (mix off apointments and using it as a tickler file for actions)
I guess I have a few more in the "project plans" for the different projects, I try not to plan to far ahead but there a few actions there (like 10)
I do try to only have one active project for each "category" of my life (so I have like one project active for my side business, and a few possible ones to do after that one in my S/M list, without any NA specified) one project for self improvement, a few for my job etc.
I don't really put in leaisure time things in my NA either, things like "play video game x"
I guess that could be it?
It would be great if you guys could tell me how many different NAs you have in your different categories, and maybe list them if they are not to private (or list the ones that are not) and also the number of projects you got.
That might help me understand if I am doing something wrong, or just structuring things a bit different than you guys do
Three bonus questions:
1) How often should/do you empty your "in" (And do you always empty every "in" you have)
2) Should you add hard deadlines to your next actions if they exist? (so that you can see the deadline in your NA list)
3) Do you add leisure activities to your next action lists? Things like "Watch youtube" "Play computer game", "Browse reddit" and other fun stuff you like to do. Why? Why not?