Contrary to the fact that there has not been a new post in a long time, Tenacious Creations is still alive. I was temporarily overwhelmed with the completion of several projects all at once. Not being the most organized person on the planet my life was completely overwhelmed.
I was starting to feel like I was on the same road to burn out that I had followed once before. Things were going really well yet chaotic in my life. I could barely find my desk beneath the paper and other assorted items that had built up upon it. I seem to have the problem of once I get started into a field of work I get totally absorbed by it, and nothing else seems to matter. This in itself is a very unhealthy behavior.
By chance I was talking with a friend of mine. My friend told me that he had this book and audio series that I really needed to read and listen to. I politely told him, “Hey man I don’t have time to brush my teeth let alone read a book.”. My friend being a very calm and collected individual calmly replied to me “That is exactly why you NEED to listen to this and read the book.”.
The book was titled “Getting Things Done” by David Allen. It is known by many people on the web as “GTD“. Well I started reading it (still haven’t finished it completely), and listening to the audio CDs (I have finished these). Well I am not going to tell you things like it has revolutionalized my life or made me a millionaire. But I can tell you that it has allowed me to have a clean desk – everyday. I now also have an excellent reference filing system. In fact for the first time ever (that is with out having an executive assistant) I can find things that I have filed, and have an awesome method for filing things that I want for reference.
The Getting Things Done Book has also allowed me to maintain an empty in box. Not only that it has trained me to not use my entire office as an in box. I not only get things done in my professional life but also things I want to get done around the house. It has taught me how to set up and use a tickler file (the best thing ever), to process items that need to be processed at a later date. But the best thing ever is it has doubled my ability to be creative and come up with new ideas. I highly recommend you check into it if you are constantly disorganized.
Getting things done or “GTD” seems to be really popular in the techie geek world even though it emphasizes the use of low tech means. Now if you don’t know about GTD then the next little bit may not mean a lot to you. But currently all my list are paper based and the only high tech means I use is e-mail. David Allen recommends to start low tech. Complicated systems do nothing but steer you away from using the GTD system.
So for about the past two weeks I have been using low tech means to follow the GTD system. It has worked great. I am getting more accomplished than I ever have before. My mind is much more free to come up with creative ideas. I don’t feel over burden by the enormous work load I have been shouldering. More important than all that I am now able to blog again.
Whats next on my horizon. Well I am hoping to upgrade some of GTD practices to my old Tungsten E Palm Pilot while I await the arrival of my new Palm TX with wireless keyboard. I am in the process of giving Tenacious Creations a make over, so look for a new site look soon. I have a bunch of posts written that will begin appearing on Tenacious Creations. The Tenacious Creations Word Press AdSense Plug in will become publicly available in the next couple of weeks, as well as a couple other helpful word press plug ins that I have written. So in short the future looks bright for Tenacious Creations. I hope that you my loyal readers will continue to read and respond to my post. Sorry to the long absence of regular posting.
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