Something learned:
GTD has helped me in recent weeks to reduce my stress levels.
Toward the end of last year, I realized that I was getting overwhelmed with everything I wanted to do -- my to-do list was gargantuan. Since I had just done our 2014 budget, I thought about how a financial budget helps figure out if I'm spending our limited money in the right places, and I figured a time budget might help me make sure that I had time to do all the things I wanted.
Well, I did it and I simply couldn't make it balance. So I knew that I had to cut out things. GTD helped give me an overview of the things I had mentally committed to doing, so I started being a lot more judicious with the number of things I added to the calendar or new projects that I started to take on.
It's been working. I have a better idea of where my time is being spent, and am being a little less spendthrift with my time. I have a little more of it free to enjoy now. If only I could bank time :)
Today I was thankful for:
1. I stopped by Krispy Kreme before work and treated myself to those doughnuts I've been craving.
2. Finished reading my library book
3. Finished my Coursera lectures for the week, and it's only Tuesday
4. Managed to do some quick calculations at the register to split up my purchases correctly in order to use my 3 Old Navy Super Cash coupons. (apparently they only take 1 per transaction) I can still do math!
5. Got to visit a chorus group and they'll let me audition after 3 weeks. I have no idea if I'm good enough, but I'm glad I'm trying!
Looking forward to:
My camera equipment has not gotten much use lately. I've figured out a photography project for myself and am excited to embark on it.
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Wednesday, January 29, 2014
Tuesday, December 3, 2013
Day 17
Today I was grateful for:
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.. :)
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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