I think that many of your actions are either too small or too large.
Too small:
The laundry task looks too complex to me, broken up into excessively small bites. If you want laundry in GTD (and I see nothing wrong with that), you could have a single-action list titled "Home Maintenance". In that, you could have an action, "Do one load of laundry", set to repeat every two days, or whatever the appropriate interval is. Admittedly, this isn't a task that you can do at one sitting, but to me it is simple enough that I'd be comfortable making it one action. If I did find myself repeatedly forgetting the laundry and coming back to a load of mildewed clothes, I might set an alarm on my phone as part of the "wash" task, to remind me to come back and dry.
Similarly, if you have at least two sets of sheets, you could have a Home Maintenance task called "Change sheets", repeating every week. "Change sheets" would be an action where you strip off the old sheets, make the bed with the clean ones, and put the dirty ones in the laundry. Then, compliance with "Do one load of laundry" will probably cause a fresh set of sheets to be available next time "change sheets" rolls around.
Similarly, you could have a Personal Maintenance single-action list, where you add repeating actions to remind yourself to trim your nails, and so on.
Too large:
"Get massages at massage parlor" doesn't look to me like a single action, but instead a project - I'd retitle it "develop a habit of getting monthly massages". (Or whatever interval you had in mind.) If I were developing a habit, I would break the steps up, maybe something like:
Action: Spend thirty minutes identifying someone to ask for a recommended massage provider, and calling or visiting them to ask the question. Repeat every three days until I have at least one likely candidate.
Action: Schedule a massage with the most likely candidate.
Action: After massage, spend ten minutes deciding whether to schedule regular massages, or to seek a different provider.
Action: Write a repeating action to schedule regular massages.
If you get to this point, then you add "Schedule monthly massage" as a repeating monthly action in your Personal Maintenance list. Your project is complete, and now it's become a repeating single action.
I suspect that "Lift weights at north campus" may be the same. I can't tell if it represents a project that could be called "Develop a habit of lifting weights" or if you already have a location, a membership, the needed equipment, the needed knowledge, and a weight lifting routine, and it really just means, "Lift weights for half an hour every Thursday". If it's the first, then you'd work the project until it becomes the repeating single action, similar to the massages example. If it's the second, you could tuck it into a single-action list titled "Exercise Routines".
I do agree that if most of the health items represent projects, not repeating single actions, that it would be better to work them toward the single action state one at a time, rather than trying to work them all at once.
Gardener
Too small:
The laundry task looks too complex to me, broken up into excessively small bites. If you want laundry in GTD (and I see nothing wrong with that), you could have a single-action list titled "Home Maintenance". In that, you could have an action, "Do one load of laundry", set to repeat every two days, or whatever the appropriate interval is. Admittedly, this isn't a task that you can do at one sitting, but to me it is simple enough that I'd be comfortable making it one action. If I did find myself repeatedly forgetting the laundry and coming back to a load of mildewed clothes, I might set an alarm on my phone as part of the "wash" task, to remind me to come back and dry.
Similarly, if you have at least two sets of sheets, you could have a Home Maintenance task called "Change sheets", repeating every week. "Change sheets" would be an action where you strip off the old sheets, make the bed with the clean ones, and put the dirty ones in the laundry. Then, compliance with "Do one load of laundry" will probably cause a fresh set of sheets to be available next time "change sheets" rolls around.
Similarly, you could have a Personal Maintenance single-action list, where you add repeating actions to remind yourself to trim your nails, and so on.
Too large:
"Get massages at massage parlor" doesn't look to me like a single action, but instead a project - I'd retitle it "develop a habit of getting monthly massages". (Or whatever interval you had in mind.) If I were developing a habit, I would break the steps up, maybe something like:
Action: Spend thirty minutes identifying someone to ask for a recommended massage provider, and calling or visiting them to ask the question. Repeat every three days until I have at least one likely candidate.
Action: Schedule a massage with the most likely candidate.
Action: After massage, spend ten minutes deciding whether to schedule regular massages, or to seek a different provider.
Action: Write a repeating action to schedule regular massages.
If you get to this point, then you add "Schedule monthly massage" as a repeating monthly action in your Personal Maintenance list. Your project is complete, and now it's become a repeating single action.
I suspect that "Lift weights at north campus" may be the same. I can't tell if it represents a project that could be called "Develop a habit of lifting weights" or if you already have a location, a membership, the needed equipment, the needed knowledge, and a weight lifting routine, and it really just means, "Lift weights for half an hour every Thursday". If it's the first, then you'd work the project until it becomes the repeating single action, similar to the massages example. If it's the second, you could tuck it into a single-action list titled "Exercise Routines".
I do agree that if most of the health items represent projects, not repeating single actions, that it would be better to work them toward the single action state one at a time, rather than trying to work them all at once.
Gardener
