Classes have been hogging my attention lately, generating a lot of reading and homework. I have hardly touched my research projects in a month. Today I got the ball rolling again, completing a few “Next Actions” from each project.
It felt great.
It’s nice that, with GTD, I can just jump back into my projects as if they were the only thing that has been on my mind.
As the newish tagline of my blog indicates, I’m a practitioner of David Allen’s Getting Things Done (GTD). I’ve been meaning to make some posts about how I apply it to graduate school and research, but in the mean time, Matthew Cornell has a nice post about warning signs that you’re not keeping things out of your head and in the system.
Matt’s Idea Blog: Some GTD warning signs
I’ve occasionally noticed some signs of falling behind. I wanted to share a few of them, and ask what others you’ve come across in your implementation.
These are also good signs that you might need to revamp your organization, even if you’re not a GTD practitioner per se.