Background reading and notes on GTD

Doing a bunch of background reading this morning on GTD and related tech/concepts today, plus beginning the organization process.

Notes on productively speaking: THE 4 LEVELS OF MY WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

NA = Next Action, SMA = Strategic Micro Action

‘I see many gtd students get confused thinking that they need to plan out all pending NA’s/SMA’s; or that they’ll end up needing to figure out which ones are pending. That is the wrong approach, and much too tedious. The idea with an SMA is to leave a ‘doable bookmark’ into each active project, which when done will propel you over the next 10-50 potential SMA’s; at which time you will THEN enter a new SMA into your system.’

Notes on Introduction | gtd exigesis

The ‘mind like water’ simile:

‘In karate there is an image that’s used to define the position of perfect readiness: ‘mind like water’. Imagine throwing a pebble into a still pond. How does the water respond? The answer is, totally appropriately to the force and mass of the input; then it returns to calm. It doesn’t overreact or underreact.’

Lot of good work today, resulting in a spiffy OmniOutliner document called ‘Projects’ with some fine Next Actions — should be a good experiment.

Tomorrow I think it would be a good idea to spend time going through that Projects list and find the items that are ‘divide into subprojects’ and divide them into subprojects.

Came in at 189 lbs this morning, first time I’ve dipped below 190 in quite a while — hopefully it will stick and continue. Of course recently I’ve been concentrating on the lifting part of things rather than cardio/fatburn, so the loss will probably slow considerably.

I’m yawning every 30 seconds, so that’s a sign that if I’m going to take a shower, I had better go take care of it. So, signing off before midnight for a change of pace. ;D

One thing I almost forgot — I twisted my left ankle pretty good earlier this evening while walking the pooch; uneven sidewalk break in the nighttime is just asking for trouble. Anyway, it has been getting rather painful on and off, so at the moment I have it RICE’d up. OK, I’m losing typing abilities as well — definitely time to sign off.