1. Picking up many packages at work. Almost all gifts for other people.
2. Getting the last components I needed for my costume for the company holiday party
3. Nature's Miracle. Again
4. Husband setting up Chromecast for our living room
5. Christmas tree coming out of storage.
Something learned:
We all have these tasks that just linger on the to-do list forever. The GTD course I once took said that procrastination has one of 2 main causes. Either you don't know how to do the task, or you don't want to do it. If it's the former, you need to go find the information you are lacking. If it's the latter, you need to come to a decision about whether you are going to do it or not, and then either do the darned thing or acknowledge that you will not do it and go from there. Either way, it finally gets off the to-do list.
The main work in the GTD system is in wrestling poorly defined to-do items into actionable next steps. E.g. turning "get car fixed" into "look for mechanic's business card". Oftentimes a lot of thinking is involved before you can even begin to do physically do anything towards a task and the GTD paradigm means doing all that thinking beforehand, so that when you are ready to actually work, the to-do list is ready.
A hope:
I want to learn Parkour. It may be too late for this body though.. :)
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