The last blog discussed collecting "stuff" - ideas, honey-do's, don't-forget's, things-I-gotta-do's. I am getting pretty good at that. Between JOTT and GyroQ, I am collecting lot's of stuff. And I mean lot's of stuff.
The problem is that collecting lot's of stuff doesn't simplify life...it certainly doesn't get me more efficient. I am now learning the next step in GTD - I have to get organized. And I don't mean by that that I have to have a place for everything, and everything in it's place. In GTD-speak, that means I have to process the "stuff." I have to think about the stuff I have collected, and do something with it. And that can be anything from throwing a "stuff" thing away to filing it for future reference to assigning it as an "action" in a project to doing something about it the next two minutes. But, bottom line, I have to do something with all the stuff I have collected.
The recommended time for that is early Friday afternoon of each week...that gives you a little time to act on some of the "stuff" before the end of the day.
So, that is what I am going to do tomorrow afternoon...that is unless my 5 month old grandson is here, in which case, I will be more than happy to once again procrastinate. Well, maybe not. But the next time I write, I hope to be able to report some success. Let's see if that happens.
