January 12, 2015

Getting Things Done

After a couple days of rain, the sun comes out for a bit. The water heater is fixed--well, mostly--it does produce hot water now. But the control mechanism is still hanging out of the wall, partially held in place with tape.

My computer has its ups and downs. Sometimes it starts up and then stalls. To unstall it, you can unplug the printer and then restart, or you can unscrew the plug from the monitor, or you can just jiggle the box. One day the keyboard quit working, and the solution was the same, unplug something and restart. I guess I better get busy on backing up in case something worse happens.

I read Dave Allen's book on getting things done, and it seemed okay as far as it went, but I still don't know how to get things done. I think the problem is deciding on relative importance. There should be both minimums and maximums for various projects. It's easy enough to stay busy. But how to get lots of little distractions out of the way to free up time for a big project, that is the question. I spend most of my time trying to get organized or to get ready for the big project I really want to do. But the littler ones can't be eliminated entirely, and there are a lot of them.

And after all is said and done, more is said than done.

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