GTD: Better Late Than Never
I know not everyone is on the Getting Things Done bandwagon, but it really is hard for me to go an entire day without seeing a reference to GTD. I picked the book up about a week before I went to Mexico. Everything in it so far has brought out the “that makes sense” comment, and even a few, “this is genius” comments. I did one little exercise that it said to do where you take a big project that you have been thinking a lot about, and then you write down one sentence that summarizes what it will be like when it is 
finished. Then you write down the very next action that you need to take on the project. Then that’s it. For now. I actually stopped thinking about the project and focused on what I was working on instead. It was genius. I wasn’t any further along on the project, but I had put down on paper everything that got it out of my head. I’m now in the thick of it, and I’ve got these stacks of everything I could ever want to get done on my desk, and I didn’t do what he said. He said to make sure to have 2 days to go through it, and I was like, well, I’ve got 3 hours, so I can start now. Big mistake. I don’t know when I’m going to have time for those stacks. It really is changing how I see managing what I do. I need to get those stacks unstacked though. But it’s too late. I need sleep. Hopefully I find some time soon.