My motto is "never do today what you can put off till tomorrow", but I make an exception for stationery shopping. I feel about stationery like normal women are supposed to feel about shoes - somewhere out there is the one, the magic item, that will make me organised and productive and beautiful and sexy. Getting into GTD has given me a fantastic excuse for indulging my passion. I have lovely new intrays and files and folders and best off all, brand new today, a
lovely box for keeping my 43folders in (thanks to
43folders wiki for the tip - there is no room in my tiny office for another filing cabinet so a box for my folders is great).
The 2 things I like best about GTD are:
- he tells you how to set up a simple system to organise your stuff. All my systems break down because they are too complicated or things drop through the cracks. I think this new system might work for me, I particularly like the whole tickler file thing, I feel like I might finally be managing my paper.
- the emphasis on next actions. For someone who prevaricates and panics and procrastinates like I do, focusing on the next thing I have to physically do makes sense. It also chimes in with stuff I worked on during CBT sessions in the past.
The book has a quote which I love, so I have made it into a
motivational poster incorporating my
spiritual beliefs:
It is easier to act yourself into a better way of feeling than to feel yourself ino a better way of action
O.H. Mowrer
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