I’ve been freeflowing since I stayed at home. That is, most days, I have not schedule and no agendas. I just do whatever pops into my nind that day and appeals most to me. I like the stress free freedom and have been enjoying it. But the other side of me has been wondering if I’ve been wasting my time away if I don’t have a schedule or an agenda for the day. Am I missing something I should have done? Am I being a slob? So when I stumbled back onto David Allen’s GTD on youtube, I’m happy to reinvestigate his method and see if I can employ it in my jobless phase.
Actually, I can. Even though there is no external pressure now to accomplish certain job related tasks, there are tasks in everyday life, there are goals we should set for ourselves to live a meaningful life. It gives you purpose and feeling of accomplishments. Both are positive influence in our lives.
So I did a brain dump yesterday. Even doing so, I found myself repeating the same items cause i don’t remember if I put it down or not. It’s embarrassing. But at least they have been recorded. If the purpose for the brain dump is to relieve your brain from trying to remember everything you have to do, not sure if I have put them down is certainly a detriment to the system. But I’ll just have to see how it works for me now that my forgetfullness seems to be getting worse and worse.
Now I’m looking for the system to use to keep the engine rolling. I know I have to choose something that is easy to do or my laziness will prevent me from doing it. The fact that I have maybe a monthful of mail to open can attest to that. I hate paperwork. So it needs to be an application and one that I can get to easily anywhere. A web app is probably the best. And one that is free is also essential. Or one that I can install on my website. Hmmm. Something to look into,. One more thing for the brain dump. Heck, at this rate, I may have more brain dump than I can put them into a system to keep track of. he he.
But there are always paper trails that need to be kept somewhere. So I still need a file system and a place to put the reference materails for a future task. I’m still not very clear how to implement the system and looking for something that suits my way of doing things. This is a process that is not finished yet.