rmjb
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Hi,
2020 has been a really good growth year for me for GTD. I've settled into a routine Weekly Review on Saturday mornings, I even took a remote Level 1 GTD training course. I also, based on the advice of the trainer, developed a technique to limit the amount of Next Actions I look at on a weekly basis. But I find myself still wondering if I'm Engaging appropriately.
I use Nirvana, and at the moment I have 108 Next actions, 24 Later, 96 Waiting, 26 Scheduled, 83 Someday and 169 Projects. At any given time, that is too many items to choose what is the next best thing I should be doing.
What I've adopted is during my weekly review, and definitely at the end of it, is to ensure that the actions and/or projects I want to/need to/can work on in the coming week, I star them to go into Focus. I generally try to keep no more than 50 items in Focus, these being a mix of Next Actions and Waiting For that I have to follow up on. But even at ~50 items to look at on a regular basis, I'm not sure I'm choosing the right next action.
Sometimes I would be doing planned work, or work as it comes up, then later on in the week someone would follow up with me on an incomplete task, only to realise that it is on my Focus list, but I didn't pick it up yet.
I use contexts to help, but I'm 100% in front of a computer at my job, so contexts all mix together; that limiting factor is of limited value.
What techniques to you all use to help choose the next best action to work on at any given point in time. How to you try to engage appropriately?
2020 has been a really good growth year for me for GTD. I've settled into a routine Weekly Review on Saturday mornings, I even took a remote Level 1 GTD training course. I also, based on the advice of the trainer, developed a technique to limit the amount of Next Actions I look at on a weekly basis. But I find myself still wondering if I'm Engaging appropriately.
I use Nirvana, and at the moment I have 108 Next actions, 24 Later, 96 Waiting, 26 Scheduled, 83 Someday and 169 Projects. At any given time, that is too many items to choose what is the next best thing I should be doing.
What I've adopted is during my weekly review, and definitely at the end of it, is to ensure that the actions and/or projects I want to/need to/can work on in the coming week, I star them to go into Focus. I generally try to keep no more than 50 items in Focus, these being a mix of Next Actions and Waiting For that I have to follow up on. But even at ~50 items to look at on a regular basis, I'm not sure I'm choosing the right next action.
Sometimes I would be doing planned work, or work as it comes up, then later on in the week someone would follow up with me on an incomplete task, only to realise that it is on my Focus list, but I didn't pick it up yet.
I use contexts to help, but I'm 100% in front of a computer at my job, so contexts all mix together; that limiting factor is of limited value.
What techniques to you all use to help choose the next best action to work on at any given point in time. How to you try to engage appropriately?