Over at the 43folders googlegroup the question was asked whether it is possible and feasible to get back onto GTD (by David Allen) after letting life rush over you and getting “lost”.
A very helpful answer was posted by JoshD:
Seriously, the first thing to do is to realize that this is normal; you
got caught up with life, and your systems got out of control. It
happens, and the real trick is to learn how to stop circling around and
blaming yourself, and gather your head back together.
(…)
And then you stop, take stock, scrape your head back into its
container, and tweak your inputs and outputs. Just a tiny bit. Next
time, it’ll take less time to feel out of control, and it’ll be less of
a mess. And again, and again.
He provides a very good motivation to actually do get back on track and provides some ideas how to do it. If you ever experienced the same problem, if you do feel it could happen to you or if you just want to keep a well written piece of text handy: go there, copy the two postings by JoshD and print them out, make a tattoo or some other permanent form of storage!
Over at the Google Group „43 Folders“
the discussion has started about „biking to work“:
In light of recent events and the consequences, I’m wondering if some of you lifehack your way around transportation to and from work on a bicycle. Any of your tips are appreciated, especially when it comes to transporting the essentials with you and weathering the elements
And there were quite a bunch of really helpful. motivating answers, just some excerpts:
If you do not have ashower facility at your office, use baby wipes. (…) Most important rule – don’t get hit by a car and always wear a helmet.
Leave a pair of comfy shoes at work, Shoes are heavy to carry. Don’t cycle in your work shoes — they’ll get gross (Ⅰ had SPDs so Ⅰ couldn’t anyway)
Ⅰ am slowly coming back from my vacation – today with a link to the Housekeeping blog.
Sidenotes:
- Ⅰ have been bookmarking quite a bit without posting any noteworthy links to the blog, but if anyone is interested: del.icio.us has the links.
- Ⅰ am no longer posting directly to delicious – but to spurl, as it keeps a cached copy of web pages around (which you can also update and keep versions of it), but it also does the job of posting to delicous for me so Ⅰ have a backup as well as a way to browse the bookmarks much more comfortable than on spurl. The two things on spurl Ⅰ miss are a. easier tagging (like in the delicious popup) and b. better browsing of bookmarks, my own and those tagged by others.
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