Big Bucket.
There’s a lot on my mind right now. Most of it is very interesting stuff, and I get the feeling that it is constantly vying for my conscious attention. What usually happens is that I get absorbed in whatever wins the cage match, shutting out the other activities until the matter at hand gets weak enough for another idea to make its move. The uninteresting things don’t stand a chance.
While I suppose I could continue on with the pro-wrestling time management system, as I’m in the neighborhood of improving my work process, perhaps I can do better. To this end I picked up Getting Things Done by David Allen, a book has been recommended as being a bit better than most of its ilk.
It seems that the big concept in the book is figuring out what needs to be done, taking the time to think about how do it, and to organize the results of that thought process in a way that is useful. To wit:
Anything you consider unfinished in any way must be captured in a trusted system outside your mind, or what I call a collection bucket, that you know you’ll come back to regularly and sort through.
I’m going to need a big bucket.
August 20th, 2007 at 10:52 am
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