Omar & LauraJ are Getting Things Done
Omar Shahine has a great post today about his Getting Things Done experiences. I've seen a number of Microsoft folks and bloggers picking up on David Allen's methodology in the past few months and the reports are almost universally positive. Read Omar's post for some insight into how great an impact GTD can have after only a couple of months.
Getting Things Done 2 months later
It was about 2 months ago that I started using the Getting Things Done system. First I bought the book, then I got the software, then I organized my life and now I'm a lot happier for it.
LauraJ just wrote a post on how GTD has impacted her, and Marc's blog has many useful posts on the subject. I feel almost exactly the same was Laura does, so read her post and then come back to mine.
David Allen has been blogging (as reported here and elsewhere some time ago). Yesterday, he posted about the idea of finding a "pause button" for your life to allow a time for reflection. Here's an excerpt:
What are your "pause buttons"? I was on stage with Beverly Kaye this morning in Phoenix, and she mentioned a wonderful little trick that we all do, but probably not enough. She said, "What do you do to put the pause button on, so you can just stop and reflect about what you've been doing (like, this week) and what you want to be doing (like, next week)?" I reflected on what my own "pause buttons" were, and was heartened that I was able to come up with quite a few. A hot bath, pruning my trees, a nice dinner with my lady and friends, a good massage, a good movie, playing GO on my computer, to mention a few. These are real doing-nothing-with-a-vengeance kind of things that interrupt my patterns and give me very different kinds of zones to get into. I also do spiritual retreats at least once a year, sometimes more, and those are a biggee in this regard.