GTD — Before & After

I am supposed to write something about GTD for Black Belt Productivity. In the meantime, a picture is worth a thousand words, and me actually posting it is worth you questioning my sanity.

Remember the Sisyphean Task? Max telling me that she envisioned me and my desk to be like “that Greek guy rolling the boulder up the mountain?” Well, I’d clean it off, then stack stuff up again, or toss stuff on there so I could file it later, or open the door to the office, fling things in the general direction of the desk and slam the door shut before any monsters could escape.

After GTD, in a land where “things” have “places” where they “belong:”

I said I’d tell you if the book was any good. Well, yes, the book is good:

Getting Things Done

But you have to take the first step, and the first step is:

Empty your office.

And start over.

Um, I’m supposed to be writing about this for the guys at Black Belt. Guess I’d better stop writing about this here and start writing about it there.

Chow, y’all.