Scheduling actions?

Hi!

One of the things that GTD didn't really solve for me is
that 'Man!
I've got so much stuff to do'-anxiety. Even when I have it
all written
down and grouped into context, I will still think of tasks
in
situations where I'm unable to do anything about them or
feel like I
should be doing more, because there is so much to do.

Before I started to use GTD, I was always grouping tasks
into days. It
helped me on monday evenings not to feel that I should also
do task x,
y and z. Because those tasks were scheduled for tuesday. I
had a
feeling of having completed whatever I was supposed to
complete for
that day. I wouldn't feel the pressure to do more or feel
overwhelmed,
because there were all those other things that needed to get
done.

Any ideas on how I can achieve that with GTD?

Ciao!
Florian

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Maybe you could try some judicious use of Waiting For and
Someday/Maybe
lists - if you can't start work on something because you
just don't
have time right now, feel free to stick it in Someday/Maybe
and make
sure to check the list every day to see if you can move it
off. That
way it's there, and you can trust you haven't forgotten it,
but it'll
be off your core lists which might help anxiety.

If that doesn't work, I'd say go back to scheduling. I know
David says
you shouldn't, but I think ultimately you should do whatever
works for
you.


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I only look at the Someday/Maybe list once a week, during
the weekly
review. It's good because then you get that sense that it's
still on
the horizon, but you don't actually have to do anything
about it right
now but it isn't going to be forgotten.

Another thing you can do is drop a card in your tickler that
reminds
you to take an action on the project. If it's something you
don't want
to deal with right away, drop it back in the tickler a day,
a week, a
month later... whatever works. After some time it shows up
again and
you get to decide if the time is right to move on it.

On Jan 1, 7:49 am, "darkha...gmail.com"
<darkha...gmail.com> wrote:
> Maybe you could try some judicious use of Waiting For
and Someday/Maybe
> lists - if you can't start work on something because
you just don't
> have time right now, feel free to stick it in
Someday/Maybe and make
> sure to check the list every day to see if you can move
it off. That
> way it's there, and you can trust you haven't forgotten
it, but it'll
> be off your core lists which might help anxiety.
>
> If that doesn't work, I'd say go back to scheduling. I
know David says
> you shouldn't, but I think ultimately you should do
whatever works for
> you.


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On 1/1/07, Florian Weber <csshshgmail.com> wrote:
>
> One of the things that GTD didn't really solve for me
is that 'Man!
> I've got so much stuff to do'-anxiety.
>
> Before I started to use GTD, I was always grouping
tasks into days. It
> helped me on monday evenings not to feel that I should
also do task x,
> y and z.
>
> Any ideas on how I can achieve that with GTD?

I think there are two ways to come at this. First is to try
and
duplicate your old behavior, which is perfectly reasonable.
A good way
to do this might be to do a review every evening, before you
end work,
and assign specific tasks for the next day. If your cycle is
longer
than day-to-day, you could assign specific tasks in your
weekly
review, although this gives you less flexibility. Both seem
essentially true to GTD, so long as you set up a trusted
system to
contain your potential tasks and don't worry about those
that aren't
yet assigned.

Another is to ask yourself why you feel you must always do
one more
thing. Could you do some more work up-front, in the project
planning
phase, to give yourself more realistic expectations as to
what needs
to get done when? Generally, I feel like I must do one more
thing when
I have unrealistic expectations of how quickly I can get
things done,
or how many simultaneous projects I can get done. Perhaps
you need to
work on developing more realistic project timelines, or just
saying
"no" to people who bring new things your way?

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I recently read Cool Time and the Two Pound Bucket by Steve
Prentice,
which had a concept that you might be able to apply. In this
book,
Steve introduces what he calls a Keystone Period. This is a
block of
time (2-4 hours) scheduled each day for UNINTERRUPTED work
on your most
important current project. So I was thinking... How about
blocking out
your time based on context. If you delegate a particular
percentage of
your day (which also could help balance commitments) to each
of your
contexts, then you just look at that context list and do
things until
you either run out of time or things to do. At the end of
the day,
while you may still have things to do, you at least know
that you gave
a reasonable amount of time (which should equal effort) to
that area of
your life. Or if you like, you can schedule contexts for
every other
day or as often as you need. That way you don't need to
worry about
"errands" because you do those on Tuesday. Today
is Thursday, Mac day!


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Jay Vaughan wrote:

> Indeed, there is plenty of oomph in the GP2X for
generating live audio 
> .. its a softsynths paradise, even ..

Ok, I'm currently running csound live on a P4 mobile 1.6GHz.
Let's call 
this soft synth index 100. What would you estimate the index
of GP2X to 
be? Just a serious, guess, I'm not gonna come after you if
your wrong 

Secondly, would there be any problems (if so which and could
they be 
solved) in getting 1) csound, 2) ams and 3) zynadsubfx
running on these 
things?

atteajstrup:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 9
model name      : Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1600MHz
stepping        : 5
cpu MHz         : 1600.000
cache size      : 1024 KB
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 2
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 sep mtrr
pge mca cmov 
pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 tm pbe est tm2
bogomips        : 3190.61

-- 
peace, love & harmony
Atte

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mpositions

Dinesh,

This problem keeps occurring, stalling development sometimes
for  
HOURS.  Can't we get rid of this flaky ibiblio site from the
*build*?!

Attempting to download jasper-jsr199-9.1.jar.
Error retrieving artifact from [http://www.ibibl
io.org/maven/jasper- 
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Unknown  
error downloading; status code was: 301
Cookie rejected: "$Version=0;  
JSESSIONID=BA95958151F093865CF00E8F232AB625;
$Path=/servlets".  
Illegal path attribute "/servlets". Path of
origin: "/nonav/ 
repository/jasper-jsr199/jars/jasper-jsr199-9.1.jar"
8K downloaded
Cookie rejected: "$Version=0;  
JSESSIONID=910BBA34908DE9F8CC7C6519D2536140;
$Path=/servlets".  
Illegal path attribute "/servlets". Path of
origin: "/nonav/ 
repository/jasper-jsr199/jars/jasper-jsr199-9.1.jar.md5"
;
Attempting to download shoal-0.8_12042006.jar.
1603K downloaded


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I don't know if it's kosher to reply to a message from five
months
ago, but I recently read DIT and have been incorporating
some of its
methods into my mostly-GTD system.

I understand and agree about the value of DIT ideas in
managing
ground-level actions, but I didn't get anything out of it at
the
50,000 foot level as you mentioned. Would you mind
elaborating on
that?

Thanks,
Michael



On 1/10/07, Dave <dagostino.davegmail.com> wrote:
>
> In his recent book "Do It Tomorrow", one of
the many techniques that
> Mark Forster recommends is to use 'closed lists' to
manage your
> activities.  Unless incoming work absolutely *has* to
be done today /
> immediately, tasks should be written down to be done
later.  This
> allows you to build lists that contain a finite amount
of work which
> becomes far more manageable. What this does is create a
buffer for you
> do use the rational, thinking part of your brain
instead of constantly
> being in reactive, instinctive mode the whole time.
>
> On a more general note, I think that Mark Forster's
book does a
> fantastic job of filling in and providing structure for
some areas in
> GTD - especially around the 50,000 foot stuff and the
"DO" stuff.  I
> read his book a few weeks ago and it has made a big
difference to my
> productivity.
>
> You can find details at   http://www.markfo
rster.net/welcome/
>
> regards
>
> Dave
>
>


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