Progress? What Progress?

I have made a concerted effort, I truly have. I have whittled down the list of things I need to do. But I have still not managed to get a true weekly review done. It's getting a bit frustrating. I was with my boss this week, and used the old analogy of trying to "drink from a firehose" to describe how my job was going. Fortunately he understands.

I'm trying. Tuesday morning (Monday is the Canada Day holiday, and Canada is 140 years old tomorrow....) I intend to clear the decks and do a whole bunch of stuff to get towards a weekly review. I've been doing a dump, a collection, all sorts of various parts of GTD, but have not cohesively put it all together.

Eagle-eyes will note that I'm re-reading GTD. I've just started. I want to get back to where I was about a year ago, where I was doing my reviews regularly, had time to plan, etc., etc. That will take me about 3 weeks, I figure. Starting Tuesday. This time I promise.

Now raise your hand if you're in the same boat I am, so that I know I'm not the only one.

Returning from a Hiatus

I’ve been on a bit of a hiatus for the last quarter or so. Since starting a new job before the New Year, I haven’t posted here, and my apologies. The truth be told, I’ve kind of been swept up trying to drink from the firehose of my new job, and have sort of fallen off the GTD bandwagon. Time to pick that back up.

One thing I need to mention is that I’ve now switched (irrevocably) away from my old Palm Tungsten E to a RIM Blackberry 8703e (from Telus Mobility) (aka “the crackberry”). Man, these things are truly addictive. E-mail, scheduling, tasks, phone, contacts all rolled into one. Plus, my company has a full Exchange implementation, with Over-The-Air (OTA) synchronization, so if I put an appointment into my calendar (or add a task, or change a phone number) on my crackberry, it automagically syncs to my Exchange server. Plus it has EVDO-speed web access, and a ton of other great stuff. And it just works and has never needed to be reset. It is wicked cool. SWMBO already hates it.

I’ve found some software and stuff for this, and will be talking about implementing GTD on a crackberry more and more as time goes on. However, at the end of the day, I’m going to use my blog to go back to what I started it for – support on my journey through GTD. I’ll review some software and stuff along the way, and will ensure that us BB addicts that are using GTD have a place to talk. I hear the bandwagon coming, so it’s time for me to jump back on.

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