There were massive layoffs in my company. I'm probably a couple of months away from losing my job here, too. In the meantime, I've been given a "promotion" -- a few added breadcrumbs of money, a new title, and a view of the doorway to the henhouse where the axeman waiteth.
In any case, in my frantic atempt to get organized -- and all of this GTD stuff I understand is a process and the effects of keeping-on-trying have cumulative, incremental benefits on one's psyche (none of which have turned up yet, still waiting, hellloooo psyche, please report to duty) -- I've found that my lists are ending up in too many places. Some on basecamp, some on index cards, some on tasktoy -- and I now have to check ike five lists every hour and update each one which is of course impossible so I end up getting confused about what I have yet to complete or what I already completed. The reason I have so many lists is that each successive one has seemed like an improvement so I gravitated toward it in the hopes of things being easier still. I feel like the Sorcere's Apprentice of task lists.
This is crucial because suddenly I am reporting to a new manager and I realize that he thinks conversations we have had ended with me having an action item when thought they were merely informational. So tracking things has become quite essential.
In any case, in my frantic atempt to get organized -- and all of this GTD stuff I understand is a process and the effects of keeping-on-trying have cumulative, incremental benefits on one's psyche (none of which have turned up yet, still waiting, hellloooo psyche, please report to duty) -- I've found that my lists are ending up in too many places. Some on basecamp, some on index cards, some on tasktoy -- and I now have to check ike five lists every hour and update each one which is of course impossible so I end up getting confused about what I have yet to complete or what I already completed. The reason I have so many lists is that each successive one has seemed like an improvement so I gravitated toward it in the hopes of things being easier still. I feel like the Sorcere's Apprentice of task lists.
This is crucial because suddenly I am reporting to a new manager and I realize that he thinks conversations we have had ended with me having an action item when thought they were merely informational. So tracking things has become quite essential.
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