Getting Things Done
I woke up at 4 am from a nightmare of the bad guy trying to get me…:wtf: Anyway, after an hour of my mind going full speed ahead with everything I needed to get done, and things I was worrying about I gave up and got up.
Part of this is Danica’s fault She is getting organized and explains her new notebook system this week. I used to use the Getting Things Done method by David Allen. (scroll down on that first link to where it says Five Stages of Workflow if you want to see what this system is about) I bought David Allen’s book. I did a lot of things from it. I got organized. But of course, eventually it all fell apart.
I have GOT to get a grip on things. Suzanne McMinn has a post up on Romancing the Blog today (which I’m not going to link to, because they have some kind of ping thing /track back going on that quotes a big chunk of your own blog post on the pingback–and I don’t particularly want the first part of this blog post posted over there, though possibly that’s controlled by MY wordpress and the excerpt field…) But go read the article. It’s good. It’s about treating your writing as a career. Which we’ve discussed on my blog before here.
Anyway, I do treat writing as a career now. Even though I haven’t sold. But I have GOT to get myself more organized to have more time to write. A full time job, raising kids, and writing. That’s a lot to get a grip on. So do any of you use a particular method to get organized? Random lists? A notebook or dayplanner? A Palm Pilot? Wing it?
I’m thinking of dragging out the Getting Things Done book and trying that again. But maybe a streamlined process. I have GOT to get a grip. Oh, I said that. HELP ME…(I need that help me smilie)
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