Is exactly what I have been doing.
Go, go, go, go. Do, do, do, do.
Or have I?
Does it count at "getting things done" when you cross off 5 things on your to-do list, but add 17 more. You know, one step forward, 2 steps back?
Well, it's more like 1 step forward, 14 steps back. Okay, okay, maybe only 7 steps back.
Seriously though, I don't think I'm taking on too much. I mean yes, I do a lot. But do I do too much? I don't think so in the least. I don't even have kids for crying out loud, so I for sure am not on here saying that I have too much to do, lest you mothers out there would murder me.
No, what I am saying is that I am doing too much the wrong way. And I have let old habits bring me down. Waaaaaay down. I'm in total 1st quadrant mode.
I address immediate needs, but let not-so-immediate things pile and pile until they are completely out of site. I let things that were little tasks turn huge because I dilly dally and pawn it off on others. I let simple phone calls go unreturned to the point where people question my existence. (and most of this is personal life - Kyle please don't fire me...)
I have 4,346, 872 things on my to do list and my brain can only hold about 3 things before I forget #4....and that's on a good day. So, what happens to items 4 thru 4,346,872? Well, I'm not really sure.
But, I am trying something new. I am going to start getting things done, David Allen style.
Dear David Allen,
Don't fail me now. Seriously.
I mean it.
"Stress-free productivity" is what you promise - and I will hold you to it.
If I end up adding "fail the art of getting things done" to my accomplished list, I will be hacked off.
Well, but then again, I would at least have accomplished something.
So, can I really lose? Win-Win here I come.
Love, Kendahl