Getting things done

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First off, thank you for all who were here and read my request for prayers - very appreciated, and as usual, they worked. The situation is still not resolved, but I left my anxiety at Jesus’ feet as I received Holy Communion on Sunday morning, and I’ve been feeling loads better since.

I’m slowly working my way through David Allen’s “Getting Things Done” book, which has been helping me put my “stuff” in its place, and streamlining everying else. My job is growing increasingly in complexity and responsibility, which is great, but it does sometimes feel like I don’t have enough time. Part of stewardship is making sure we do the best with what we have, and then some. I’m working on the the “then some” right now.

For those of you not familiar with GTD, the ubiquitous Merlin Mann has a great round up over at 43folders, which is one of my favorite sites about personal organization out there. And Merlin is just outright funny too. Curt and I both laughed at this snippet:

I think Getting Things Done appeals to geeks for a lot of reasons. Overgeneralizing for effect:

• geeks are often disorganized or have a twisted skein of attention-deficit issues
• geeks love assessing, classifying, and defining the objects in their world
• geeks crave actionable items and roll their eyes at “mission statements” and lofty management patois
• geeks like things that work with technology-agnostic and lofi tools
• geeks like frameworks but tend to ignore rules
• geeks are unusually open to change (if it can be demonstrated to work better than what they’re currently using)
• geeks like fixing things on their own terms
• geeks have too many projects and lots and lots of stuff

Ummm… I have nothing more to add!

PS: I’m super excited today because I was able to step up and ask for a Wacom Intuos3 pen tablet at work, and got the go-ahead. I got it last night and tried it out here at home - I LOVE IT. I can’t wait to get going with it, I think it will open up a whole new level of creativity for me, and maybe even help me do some of my tasks faster because of it. Woo hoo!

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