Anybody out there use that Getting Things Done method to be more productive? I've been trying to use it and any variation I can wrap my head around for about a year, and I think I have spent more time trying to figure out the system rather than Getting Things Done.
It's frustrating I tells ya. (in my best Rodney Dangerfield)
I'm test driving my 6th GTD software package and it still winds up being just an endless list of tasks for me. Maybe I'm just not wired correctly to do anything but create lists on index cards, which would be odd since I am a tech guy who uses computers for everything else. What is it about tasks, and lists, and chores, and responsibilities that gets us so wound up we need "systems" and "methods" and software to be productive??!!
Maybe we just have too much to do, or are just trying to do too much. I expect many of us and our descendants will burn ourselves out completely driving toward that promised Utopian society where all of our time is open for self-education, the betterment of society, and the advancement of theories, science and philosophies.
Personally I'm betting most of it will be spent watching TV.
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