Getting Things Done

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