IAmMichele said:
I am a Jr. Escrow Officer. Tough to implement as it is an extremely interruption rich environment. So much of what is do is one quick step after another and there isn't a lot of room for planning.
It's interesting how often this kind of comment comes up... It seems to me as if GTD is a
response to how interrupt driven all of our lives tend to be in the information age. If I have the system in place, then I should be more able to respond to interrupts than in the past since all of the other stuff is out of my head, but accessible when the interrupts stop so I can give a plate or two a spin. For the most part, the "planning" is just picking that next action.
Sometimes I think we misinterpret what the "implementation" looks like. I was just reading Ready for Anything again, and David talked about how the idea of having all of these lists wasn't so that you would go and do all the stuff on the lists - it was so you could go and do other stuff without being bothered by the stuff on the lists. He was trimming a tree in his yard and having a blast at it, and it wasn't on a list anywhere... just seemed like the thing to do at the time. I know I've been enjoying goofing off and playing more since I implemented this system because I know
exactly what I'm not doing instead of just laboring under this vague sense of "I really ought to be doing something else right now."