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Schedule regular REVIEWs of your 20k-40k material. That should do the trick. No big deal, just read your 30k-goals at least twice a week or so. My bet is after doing that for ~90 days or so, things will have gotten different. (For the better, let's hope.)
kelstarrising
Kelly | GTD expert
Tom.9 said:
I would recommend taking the GTD-Q on GTDConnect.com. The Assessment on Connect is more detailed than the free one and gives you richer details on your results. https://gtdconnect.com/gtdq.php
You can get to it as a free trial member.
Oogiem
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Tom.9 said:
Not sure I see a real problem. I've taken the GTD Q test on Connect 39 time. Of those 31 of them I ended up in Crazy Maker territory, 1 time in Responder/Victim and 7 times in Captain and Commander. I've decided that my life and ideas are such that I will probably always be in Crazy Maker unless I'm sick.
So my big strategy is developing ways to store the thousands of ideas and items, refining my someday/maybe lists and rteally trying to have a cleaner system all around. Its a work in progress, I'm having problems finishing some of the projects related to improvements in my GTD system that I thought of this past winter but progress is being made, just very slowly.
Thanks so far for the ideas.
Practical question: We have a 14-month old kid, which sooner or later should complete the toilet training (i.e. get rid of its diapers). IMO that´s a 30.000 ft goal (to achive within 1 or 2 years). What would be the appropriate entries in 20.000 ft. and Next Actions?
(Always in mind that DA is warning not to over-organize things.)
Practical question: We have a 14-month old kid, which sooner or later should complete the toilet training (i.e. get rid of its diapers). IMO that´s a 30.000 ft goal (to achive within 1 or 2 years). What would be the appropriate entries in 20.000 ft. and Next Actions?
(Always in mind that DA is warning not to over-organize things.)
IMHO this is even a little bit later than 1-2 years. I would say 3,5 years old is the middle point when they stop using diapers.
Anyway, let's say it is a 30k item, which it certainly is.
How you organize your life is of course up to you. Everyone will have a different approach. Here, the 20k items would include things like "child name" or "parenting" or even "parenting goals." Additionally "learning parenting", "developing sophisticated idea on parenting, education", "taking care of offspring", "helping kids with their goals", "come to agreement with SO and kids on how we live together" could be a 40k thing. It really depends on how you see life.
The NAs here, I can't see any. As far as I can tell, all the interaction with the child that falls under "potty training" (which could be at the time either a project or a 20k item or maybe even both), will be happening spontanouesly in the moment of urgency - to paraphrase Covey.
Thus it all falls into the first category of the The Threefold Model for Evaluating Daily Work, which would be "doing the work as it shows up" as opposed to either "defining the work" or "doing the work that is already defined." So, no NA reminders necessary.
Anyway, let's say it is a 30k item, which it certainly is.
How you organize your life is of course up to you. Everyone will have a different approach. Here, the 20k items would include things like "child name" or "parenting" or even "parenting goals." Additionally "learning parenting", "developing sophisticated idea on parenting, education", "taking care of offspring", "helping kids with their goals", "come to agreement with SO and kids on how we live together" could be a 40k thing. It really depends on how you see life.
The NAs here, I can't see any. As far as I can tell, all the interaction with the child that falls under "potty training" (which could be at the time either a project or a 20k item or maybe even both), will be happening spontanouesly in the moment of urgency - to paraphrase Covey.
Thus it all falls into the first category of the The Threefold Model for Evaluating Daily Work, which would be "doing the work as it shows up" as opposed to either "defining the work" or "doing the work that is already defined." So, no NA reminders necessary.