Getting Things Done

This is a huge chance, a tremendous opportunity.  You have been given back the time you spent journeying to and from your workplace, you’ve regained the time working for the company who has for one reason or another let you go – probably through no fault of your own.

So what are you going to do with your time?  Well that is up to you to decide and we talk elsewhere about finding what you want to do, but whatever you decide on doing it is time to do it properly and with focus.  It’s time, now more than ever, to Get Things Done.

It didn’t help me keep my job, but by then things were pretty much set in motion anyway, but getting into the “Getting Things Done” system really helped me both during the final month on the job, but also since leaving and becoming my own boss.

I’ve been a to-do list writer for a long time now, making to-do lists in whatever notebook is at hand then rewriting lists each day when I felt like it – but it didn’t really work for me.  Yeah I got stuff done but was it the right stuff?  Were things going missing?  What about the days when I got so distracted or interrupted that nothing got ticked off?  As my life didn’t seem to be changing then maybe it wasn’t the right way to do things.

So I would move onto a slightly different way of working – for example going through my list of items to do and scheduling them into my calendar and then felt good, for a while. But it still wasn’t enough, I was disorganised in my organisation system!!

And then I started reading about GTD (Getting Things Done) and boy does it make a difference.

This article isn’t about the GTD system itself, there are books and websites that will tell you all about that.  This article is about how you need to Get Things Done to move forward with your hopes and goals.  You need to take the dreams, put them into a system and work that system.

You can follow GTD, 7 Habits or any number of systems, it doesn’t matter which just that you find something that works for you – and you don’t have to work for it.

If you truly want to take this opportunity by both hands then make sure you know where you are going with it, and how to get every step of the way there.