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  • Changing up how my Someday/Maybes are organized

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    I am a big fan of Getting Things Done (GTD) and highly recommend the GTD book and the methodology to everyone and anyone. 

    I do not consider myself a GTD Black belt yet but I am continually progressing and getting better and better at GTD each and everyday.  One of the areas of GTD that I consider to be my weakest is the Organize part of GTD.  I tend to resist moving projects and next actions that are truly someday/maybes into my someday/maybe list.  This is because my someday/maybe list has become so large that I do not review it regularly and no longer is it a trusted part of my GTD system.

    But I am also a big fan of keeping things flat.  I want to keep the overhead associated with running a GTD system at a minimum and having everything flat is a huge win for me in this area.  Up until now I had a single someday/maybe section (I use OneNote) for all of my someday/maybes but it definitely has become overwhelming and I am resisting putting things into the blackhole that is my someday/maybe list.

    I am going to try separating them into the various roles that I have:

    • Developer
    • Husband
    • Father
    • Homeowner
    • Entrepreneur

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    I will see if this will allow me to keep my Next Action and Project list clean by feeling completely comfortable moving a stale item into my someday/maybe list (now that I can review these regularly… something I was not doing to my someday/maybes which is why I resisted moving items there in the first place).

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