A few days before the reception, I found a book on the kitchen table entitled, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity. I thought it was left there for me by my Dad, always trying to find ways to settle down his rather type A daughter. (Although I hope I've mellowed and been downgraded to an A- in recent years.) Nope, it wasn't my Dad's doing. It was actually a book that Scott was reading. He had told me about his way of getting things done and here was the book.
Somehow I found the time to read some of it that weekend and then took it with me when we went to Zion National Park for a few days. Here were the missing pieces to my getting organized dilemma that Covey and others hadn't been able to solve. This is productivity for a modern age. Organization for geeks.
So I bought a labeller and a huge box of file folders and began the quest to get my life in order. Yes, I'm still a paper/pencil type person, although much of my life is electronic. That's why this art works for me. I've been sleeping a bit better since, now that I have a way to capture all of those things that I want to, have to, and need to get done.
My office is still a little overwhelming, but now that I have a plan I know that it'll get done.
Oh, and I'd better buy my own copy of the book, so Scott can have his back!
