I had a "slap me around the face with a wet kipper" A-Ha moment on the way to work this morning.
I live an hour away from work and because of that a large part of my journey is on the motorway. I leave home around 6:00am to get to the office for 7:00am and because of this I'm becoming less part of traffic jams. Sure it happens but I just find that it happens less.
Anyway, I saw those dredded flashing motorway signs this morning telling everyone to slow down and eventually traffic came to a halt.
Now pre-GTD (and I'm still pretty new to it) I would have become more and more stressed. I would have switched on the radio in order to get more information and I would begin planning my exit route if and when I could finally make it to the next exit.
This morning I didn't do that. To my surprise I found myself perfectly calm and even happy. I remember even asking myself "er hello Jason, why aren't you stressed?" and I replied with "because I'm working through a next action". See, I was listening to my iPod and on it were all the GTD connect podcasts that I'd downloaded - literally hours and hours of them.
So not only did I remain totally calm, which has to be good for keeping those grey hairs at bay, I was being productive (Listen to GTD Podcasts on the way to/from work). And not only that I arrived in the office completely calm instead of ranting and raving about the traffic.
If you travel a lot I highly recommed getting these onto an MP3 player. When you find yourself stuck in traffic, and lets be honest here it will happen, you can still do something productive and feel good about it. :mrgreen:
Jason
I live an hour away from work and because of that a large part of my journey is on the motorway. I leave home around 6:00am to get to the office for 7:00am and because of this I'm becoming less part of traffic jams. Sure it happens but I just find that it happens less.
Anyway, I saw those dredded flashing motorway signs this morning telling everyone to slow down and eventually traffic came to a halt.
Now pre-GTD (and I'm still pretty new to it) I would have become more and more stressed. I would have switched on the radio in order to get more information and I would begin planning my exit route if and when I could finally make it to the next exit.
This morning I didn't do that. To my surprise I found myself perfectly calm and even happy. I remember even asking myself "er hello Jason, why aren't you stressed?" and I replied with "because I'm working through a next action". See, I was listening to my iPod and on it were all the GTD connect podcasts that I'd downloaded - literally hours and hours of them.
So not only did I remain totally calm, which has to be good for keeping those grey hairs at bay, I was being productive (Listen to GTD Podcasts on the way to/from work). And not only that I arrived in the office completely calm instead of ranting and raving about the traffic.
If you travel a lot I highly recommed getting these onto an MP3 player. When you find yourself stuck in traffic, and lets be honest here it will happen, you can still do something productive and feel good about it. :mrgreen:
Jason
