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Tom, glad this has helped you. It’s certainly helped clarify my own thinking, for better or worse. I’m actually having a free consult call this afternoon with one of the coaches to see if personal coaching is the right move for me, already forwarded her this thread and suggested that if she read it prior to our call it would give insights into where I'm at in the process. Will come back and post if I get new insights. I realize my...

Quote: Originally Posted by Conejo23 I know it’s kind of a schizoid approach, but my work environment is a little schizoid, so there you have it. Sounds like lambing During lambing all bets are off, the priority is keeping sheepies and lambies alive. All else, including food for the humans pales into insignificance. But once nighttime hits I try to do as much on contexts as my energy allows. I know that the mad crush will all start again at...

so ellobogrande--what happens to all of the left and middle cut folders? Or do you only buy right cut? My inquiring GTD-nerd mind needs to know these details...

Hope I can help! Quote: Originally Posted by alainr 1. i don't know what to do with things that have to be done by a certain date--for example, box up and ship something that needs to be received by Dec 14th or pay property taxes by dec 15th---and have accompanying forms. These things are now active Projects, with (at least) one Next Action each. The accompanying forms go in your project support materials (A-Z reference in a filing...

Apropos of this thread, a recent article in Science about the impact of enforced downtime on productivity: http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org...redit.a0900149 Incidentally, there's a third alternative between "hire more people" and "turn work away." Raise your rates. Katherine

I am still new-ish (several half-starts). This time I'm trying paper. I'm trying no to let the system usurp my time. I'm trying to keep it as simple as possible, adding as the need arrises. I started with a steno book and tabs this time, similar to how you described, but I found that I didn't like not being able to look at things next to each other and not being able to re-order things. I've gone to a regular three...

CAPTURE Home inbox tray - Where I collect postal mail, loose paperwork. etc Google G1 inbox - Where I collect my thoughts, ideas, appointments, (everything) Bookmarks inbox - Where I collect any researched significant websites/blogs, whatever PROCESS/ORGANISE SimpleGTD - Where I process and organise my captured items that are actionable (single actinos and projects). Also S/M's and waiting fors. Physical reference system - Where Process...

Quote: Originally Posted by Conejo23 I make better choices more in line with my priorities when I make that decision in my weekly review Some on this forum mentioned 'mental contexts in past discussions about context-lists. Seems to be that the Weekly Review can be a mental context, a mental state, too. Makes some sense to me at least.

Time after time I've found that unless it's just for notes then notebooks for actions far too restrictive. I have a clipboard with individual sheets of paper clipped to it. Ie one sheet for na's and I write na in the bottom left of the paper and then rip off the bottom of the sheet next to it to make an index tab. That way my notes and actions are seperate without hassle.

I am in the same line of work as you are and I use a product that was designed for lawyers but is very easy to customize for any use http://chaossoftware.com/legal_billing.html I simply customize the fields to suite my needs and the timer is great and you can even create reports, excel spreadsheets and invoices if you like. I use the same contact data from my Chaos database, however, Legal Billing can be used as a stand alone product as well....