Comments on: Okay, I admit—I’m a huge fraud… http://c3sart.com/books/okay-i-admit%e2%80%94im-a-huge-fraud%e2%80%a6 C3SART.com | Essays & Design by Cesar Torres Sat, 05 Jun 2010 16:17:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: John Clark http://c3sart.com/books/okay-i-admit%e2%80%94im-a-huge-fraud%e2%80%a6/comment-page-1#comment-424 John Clark Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:48:22 +0000 http://c3sart.com/?p=798#comment-424 Cesar, I'm intrigued - I have to check this out. I'm guilty of procrastinating a lot; a quote from the late, great Douglas Adams springs to mind: "I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they fly by." - this applies to me. So, anything which helps *me* pull the proverbial finger out and organise myself a bit better must surely be worth investigating. Great blog, keep up the good work! Cesar, I’m intrigued – I have to check this out. I’m guilty of procrastinating a lot; a quote from the late, great Douglas Adams springs to mind: “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they fly by.” – this applies to me.

So, anything which helps *me* pull the proverbial finger out and organise myself a bit better must surely be worth investigating.

Great blog, keep up the good work!

]]> By: Cesar Torres http://c3sart.com/books/okay-i-admit%e2%80%94im-a-huge-fraud%e2%80%a6/comment-page-1#comment-421 Cesar Torres Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:10:57 +0000 http://c3sart.com/?p=798#comment-421 @David: I don't think it has too many places for things. When you're processing your inbox, a task falls into one of a few categories: * Delete: just get rid of it; * Delegate: get someone else to deal with it; * Defer: put it on a to-do list, archive it, and deal with it later (a "Next" list to be reviewed when you have time to take on tasks that aren't urgent/pending); or * Do: if it takes 2 minutes or less, just handle whatever the task/email actually needs you to do. Really, you should read the book or listen to it on podcast. The investment of 10-hours of reading the book (if even partially) is totally worth the gamble if the system pays off on <em>some</em> level. @David: I don’t think it has too many places for things. When you’re processing your inbox, a task falls into one of a few categories:
* Delete: just get rid of it;
* Delegate: get someone else to deal with it;
* Defer: put it on a to-do list, archive it, and deal with it later (a “Next” list to be reviewed when you have time to take on tasks that aren’t urgent/pending); or
* Do: if it takes 2 minutes or less, just handle whatever the task/email actually needs you to do.

Really, you should read the book or listen to it on podcast. The investment of 10-hours of reading the book (if even partially) is totally worth the gamble if the system pays off on some level.

]]> By: Cesar Torres http://c3sart.com/books/okay-i-admit%e2%80%94im-a-huge-fraud%e2%80%a6/comment-page-1#comment-420 Cesar Torres Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:05:35 +0000 http://c3sart.com/?p=798#comment-420 @ Sarah: WordPress thought this was spam. Of course, I did not. @ Sarah: WordPress thought this was spam. Of course, I did not.

]]> By: David Lunsford http://c3sart.com/books/okay-i-admit%e2%80%94im-a-huge-fraud%e2%80%a6/comment-page-1#comment-419 David Lunsford Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:34:34 +0000 http://c3sart.com/?p=798#comment-419 Well, since the person above already posted what I was going to write as my comment . . . GTD, from my brief flirtation with it, has seemed to have too many different "places" for "things/tasks" to be placed. While this may not be a bad thing, it made for a difficult implementation. I wonder if a GTD Lite could be formulated to ease the learning curve. Secondly, I think GTD would benefit from addressing in a 1-to-1 ratio, tactics for self-discipline alongside each tactic for processing tasks/things. What do you think? Am I missing something? (Again, I fully admit to not having spent the requisite amount of time with the system.) David Well, since the person above already posted what I was going to write as my comment . . .

GTD, from my brief flirtation with it, has seemed to have too many different “places” for “things/tasks” to be placed. While this may not be a bad thing, it made for a difficult implementation. I wonder if a GTD Lite could be formulated to ease the learning curve.

Secondly, I think GTD would benefit from addressing in a 1-to-1 ratio, tactics for self-discipline alongside each tactic for processing tasks/things.

What do you think? Am I missing something? (Again, I fully admit to not having spent the requisite amount of time with the system.)

David

]]> By: sarah vela http://c3sart.com/books/okay-i-admit%e2%80%94im-a-huge-fraud%e2%80%a6/comment-page-1#comment-417 sarah vela Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:56:53 +0000 http://c3sart.com/?p=798#comment-417 nice tits. nice tits.

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