Quasi-Evil

Posts Tagged ‘GTD’

Things They Haven’t Made Yet

You know what should exist?

A portable handheld scanner that runs on batteries and can store scans on a flash drive. That way, I could take it to the library with me and scan the relevant bits rather than having to photocopy the page and then scan it in when I get home. That’d really help with the whole paperless workflow thing.

What do you wish they’d make?

Nothing Ventured

10:30pm at night is not a good time to take everything off your desk, chuck it on the sofa, move said desk to the other side of the room, likewise with the sofa…and then get bored.

I am midway through rearranging my lounge, my mother may well be coming over tomorrow evening, I’m at uni all day, and I really, really want to go to bed. Oops.

It’s all over, sort of

The portfolio has been handed in, the sponsorship proposal presentation was done this afternoon (after some tech problems - despite my multiple checks that no matter what computer we plugged it in to, it would work - apparently, university laptops operate in some alternate dimension of complete incompatibility with the universe) and so now it’s back to normality.

Of course, in the time I’ve been staying up all hours working constantly on these two things, everything else has piled up and so it’s not so much back to normality as back to the grindstone.

I think I need a ‘To-Do’ list and it may well be time for another read of Getting Things Done by David Allen.

So, I’m a Slowpoke

In the past 7 days I have achieved not one of the things I set out to do. I haven’t even tidied my desk which I’ve actually been saying I need to do for over a month. I haven’t finished any essays, articles or stories. I haven’t even started compiling my to-do list for the conventions I’m involved in nor have I done the evaluation of the one that’s just been. I’ve not collected my mail. I haven’t cleaned the house. I haven’t made a list of all my outgoings and incomings in preparation for the arrival of some desperately needed cash on Monday.

But I have installed Wordpress, ordered a layout for it and begun making notes for future posts. Again. I’ve also decided what camera I’ll be buying (Sony CyberShot DSC-T100) to replace the one that my ex took (Canon EOS 20D) when we split up. And I’ve got Post-It notes all over the place with ideas for a couple of new websites I’m working on.

The level of my procrastination is so extreme that I spent half an hour today looking up different definitions of the word, ‘procrastinate’. Part of me was hoping I’d find my picture with one of them. But I think I’m going to have to stop referring to it as procrastination, the word’s far too nice and has an associated coolness that practically encourages me to do nothing. No, what I’ve been doing is wasting time. Lots of it.

I need a life style change.

What I need to do, and I’ve known this for the best part of a year, is start eating properly, doing more exercise, tidying up as I go along and actually getting some work done. Consistently. Not just for the duration of reading Getting Things Done (which I’m only half way through and haven’t even picked up in a month - which is no reflection on the book, whilst I was reading it I became hyper-organised, sadly you can’t read all the time). I’m not quite sure how I intend to achieve this but things have pretty much reached breaking point. If I don’t get my finger out, I’ll be skint, unemployed and won’t have a university course to go to. The time has come to be a grown-up. Holy shit.