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Core Business Tasks How To ?
Sat, 2006/08/26 - 1:09pm — EricW
Hi My first post and I’m sitting with my piles of ‘stuff’ ready to start organising.. What I’m not grasping is how I handle Projects that are standard, standing items. In my mind they are a special type of project but I suspect that my inital plan of creating a top level header “Core Business” alongside Projects, Actions, Deferred etc will be useless. Do the scripts pick up top level stuff like that or are those headers fixed in kGTD. Any guidance would be appreciated Regards Eric
Several things come to mind
Several things come to mind and I can’t tell which ones, if any, might apply. Here’s some info and some questions:
1) You can set up a list separate from Projects/Actions/Deferred in kGTD. Open the Utilities drawer, select a Section heading like Archive and hit the + button at the bottom of the Sections window. The kGTD scripts won’t touch anything in that new section.
How are you going to use the list to keep yourself stress-free and productive? How does this additional list simplify your workflow?
2) Look at the GTD workflow diagram for Organizing (setting up destinations for your ‘stuff’) and Processing (moving your ‘stuff’ thru the criteria for the various destinations). The ones in the GTD book (p. 139) and by Earl Moore are clearer than the one on David Allen’s website, in my opinion.
3) Not everything needs to be written on a list. For example, David Allen recommends that if an action will take less than two minutes, you just do it now. And some tasks are cued by the circumstances, like the phone ringing, or a customer walking up to the cash register. And some tasks are so well established that you handle them without them being on your mind, like a routine for opening the store in the morning, or checking your tickler file. So, if they really are “standard, standing” tasks, do you even need to write them down?
4) And maybe you do need to write things down to get them out of your head. Maybe you need to break your standard, standing activities down into the actual physical actions that have to be taken. Or maybe your projects are the standard actions that you take, and the project lists are just the objects that you have to apply those actions to. If you were a teacher, you could have a standing project of Grade homework, that right now has 8/23 problem set and 8/25 term paper proposals as its tasks. Are you turning your ‘stuff’ in actions?
I hope that some part of this is helpful.
Hi Paul Thanks for your
Hi Paul Thanks for your thoughtful repsonse. You’re quite right to focus on the actions. What I was avoiding was the fact that each of the Core Business cycles are in fact Projects. So in starting out I think it would be wise for me to rasie them as such as I work through. Perhaps longer term I might create a Project that is the total picture where Initiate Marketing, Initiate Program Development etc are the actions. From there hopefully iCal will show them when its time to execute all the actionsin that process. Kind Regards Eric
PS Sort of like my question can go into the Annals of GTD Denial :-)
Re: Core Business Tasks How To ?
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