Free Flow Life

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Well I promised I’d provide a weekly update on my trial of a GTD hybrid system. Details on what I was planning to do are covered in this post here. So far so good. I missed doing a formal weekly review at the end of last week so I haven’t backed up my paper system to Outlook as I’d planned. I’m not the least bit concerned though. I have been simply entering my Next Actions and then striking through them when done.

Three observations I’d make so far:

1. The initial exercise of transferring all my Next Actions, Someday/Maybes and Projects from Outlook to paper provided a great opportunity to really think about my commitment to each of the items I was transferring, particularly those that had been on the list for a while. Essentially I committed to myself that if I was going to spend the time and effort writing and maintaining this item on paper then then I’d better be planning on actually striking it off sometime too.

2. Linked to the first observation, I have found I have had a really increased focus on my lists day to day, particularly my @Home list. I refer to them much more often and am attracted to looking at them. It has changed where I spend my time, for the better. I refer to my electronic calendar as need be and it seems easier to carve out the time each day to define my work.

3. The Moleskine Cahier is working well for me. I like its size and weight. It is not multi-purpose as I still capture Next Actions elsewhere and this suits me. I don’t feel the need to change that.

I’ll provide another update next week.

Got any thoughts or ideas of your own on the shift to paper?

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