About 8 years ago I went on a productivity bender with GTD.
GTD is David Allen’s “Getting Things Done” system for organizing and managing tasks and workload.
The system worked well (mostly). Of course it depended on an appropriate level of discipline being maintained to keep it humming along.
I’ve since moved to a more “hybrid” approach that I’ve assembled to best suit me.
And… yeah, yeah…
I wasn’t disciplined enough to make GTD keep working for me.
But one important part of it I HAVE kept is the simple rule:
When you’re processing your inbox, whether an actual inbox on your desk or for email…
If there’s something that will take 2 minutes or less to take care of then you do it right there and then.
There’s no shuffling things off to a todo list or pretending it’s not there.
Just do it!
And that has helped me avoid accumulating piles of tiny little jobs to do.
You know, the kind that gang up in the back of your head and bang pots and pans at 3 in the morning?
It’s a simple tip to take on board. And doesn’t require the whole shebang of GTD.
I like it. Do you do something similar?
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Chris Milham