ivanjay205
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Hi Everyone, I am a long time GTDer and I have a pretty good handle on the system. I use Omnifocus as my tool of preference. I am great at capturing, clear my inbox every day and diligently complete my weekly review every Friday.
My struggle is I am a President/Owner of a small business that is not tiny. We have 40 employees and do work all over the US. I travel quite a bit, have a ton of meetings, but also have a lot of direct actionable responsibilities in terms of tasks myself. We arent that big where I have a team to delegate everything too.
So I find two major issues…. Looking for help with them…
1. The overwhelm… when I am busy even with a sense of everything has its place I know the list is bigger than my time. I know the GTD answer is to delegate but that is not always an option. How do you manage or subdivide based on priority or somehow prevent that driving feeling of overcommittment?
2. How do you surface on a regular basis lower priority tasks? I find I spend 90 percent of my professional time on my client and my people (employees) area of focus in my system. Those take a lot of my time and are very important to me. But I still need to get to the other items at times.
I feel like I need a subset of my system…. Almost to carve out on a smaller basis my priorities. Maybe seeing the entire picture as I clearly do with GTD is not a good thing?
My struggle is I am a President/Owner of a small business that is not tiny. We have 40 employees and do work all over the US. I travel quite a bit, have a ton of meetings, but also have a lot of direct actionable responsibilities in terms of tasks myself. We arent that big where I have a team to delegate everything too.
So I find two major issues…. Looking for help with them…
1. The overwhelm… when I am busy even with a sense of everything has its place I know the list is bigger than my time. I know the GTD answer is to delegate but that is not always an option. How do you manage or subdivide based on priority or somehow prevent that driving feeling of overcommittment?
2. How do you surface on a regular basis lower priority tasks? I find I spend 90 percent of my professional time on my client and my people (employees) area of focus in my system. Those take a lot of my time and are very important to me. But I still need to get to the other items at times.
I feel like I need a subset of my system…. Almost to carve out on a smaller basis my priorities. Maybe seeing the entire picture as I clearly do with GTD is not a good thing?