Discussion Forum > Is DIT still alive?
@Mark
Sounds good. Maybe it was weeded out of your task diary for the next day! ;-)
Sounds good. Maybe it was weeded out of your task diary for the next day! ;-)
April 7, 2016 at 7:52 |
Ben H
Ben H
DIT is still Alive !
At last my system is on the way of efficiency. I have adapted my tools to digital because I have too many informations and I needed to be sure that all was under control !
Even I prefer paper I put everything in omnifocus software. So I can collect and organize all in the same system and don't miss anything.
During the day I do my job. I work project by project. On by one. My daily and weekly reviews has selected the most important tasks and projects. Generaly I do it from a list I have extracted from OF which mostly contains yesterday's incomes. If something new happens I just use my keyboard short cut to collect it. If it is a complicated note such as the numbers about a building I collect it on my paper dated note book. Collected stuff goes into my inbox. At night I treat it is a GTD way then report most of it for tomorrow.
The system is simple and efficient. At a glance I can see all my ends date, start date and all about my projects. I can hold some and make active others. I can hold tasks and make active others too. I can also hide them or focus on some.
I have programmed my mind to colect all my stuff into Omnifocus. I also use the DIT principle. Ie if something happens do it torrorow unless it is urgent. The effect is so powerfull. Generaly I can eliminate most of it because things have changed so fast that the item is irelevant.
Now that all my organisational system is settled and operationnal I stick to it and won't touch it except for improovements
I am engaged now in visionning my goals - They will be in mindpaps linked to Omnifocus. They are crucial for me.
At last, all about my real estate information are collected in a new investment software I have especially created on file maker wich is fully efficient and operationnal. Since over one year I have worked on this project it was very complicated especialy the financial part. It still must be improoved but I am on the way of it.
All that stuff tooks me a while. But the result is nice. My paper note book is the link between all this stuff. It is still and only for incoming information.
So I want to thank Mark for DIT because this little stone helped me to buid my wall. I had all the stone around me but I did not know how to build it. I realized that as the stuff was incoming everyday I was only overwhelmed. I needed to sit down, observe and decided. The DIT principle extracted from my mind what I felt so urgent but in reality was not. I also realised that I could not do everything. I had to choose the right stuff and focus on it even if I had to fell.
The real difficulty was to accept that renouncement is only necessary. And that all what Mark said in his great post today http://markforster.squarespace.com/blog/2016/4/9/seven-mistakes-small-business-owners-make.html , was may be my real mistakes
Sometime things take a certain time to arise. A said François Mitterand "il faut du temps au temps"
A new day is coming I know where I am going and how
At last my system is on the way of efficiency. I have adapted my tools to digital because I have too many informations and I needed to be sure that all was under control !
Even I prefer paper I put everything in omnifocus software. So I can collect and organize all in the same system and don't miss anything.
During the day I do my job. I work project by project. On by one. My daily and weekly reviews has selected the most important tasks and projects. Generaly I do it from a list I have extracted from OF which mostly contains yesterday's incomes. If something new happens I just use my keyboard short cut to collect it. If it is a complicated note such as the numbers about a building I collect it on my paper dated note book. Collected stuff goes into my inbox. At night I treat it is a GTD way then report most of it for tomorrow.
The system is simple and efficient. At a glance I can see all my ends date, start date and all about my projects. I can hold some and make active others. I can hold tasks and make active others too. I can also hide them or focus on some.
I have programmed my mind to colect all my stuff into Omnifocus. I also use the DIT principle. Ie if something happens do it torrorow unless it is urgent. The effect is so powerfull. Generaly I can eliminate most of it because things have changed so fast that the item is irelevant.
Now that all my organisational system is settled and operationnal I stick to it and won't touch it except for improovements
I am engaged now in visionning my goals - They will be in mindpaps linked to Omnifocus. They are crucial for me.
At last, all about my real estate information are collected in a new investment software I have especially created on file maker wich is fully efficient and operationnal. Since over one year I have worked on this project it was very complicated especialy the financial part. It still must be improoved but I am on the way of it.
All that stuff tooks me a while. But the result is nice. My paper note book is the link between all this stuff. It is still and only for incoming information.
So I want to thank Mark for DIT because this little stone helped me to buid my wall. I had all the stone around me but I did not know how to build it. I realized that as the stuff was incoming everyday I was only overwhelmed. I needed to sit down, observe and decided. The DIT principle extracted from my mind what I felt so urgent but in reality was not. I also realised that I could not do everything. I had to choose the right stuff and focus on it even if I had to fell.
The real difficulty was to accept that renouncement is only necessary. And that all what Mark said in his great post today http://markforster.squarespace.com/blog/2016/4/9/seven-mistakes-small-business-owners-make.html , was may be my real mistakes
Sometime things take a certain time to arise. A said François Mitterand "il faut du temps au temps"
A new day is coming I know where I am going and how
April 9, 2016 at 9:35 |
Jupiter
Jupiter
<< Tucked away in my copy of DIT is a print out of this article by Mark:
http://markforster.squarespace.com/blog/2008/3/15/weeding-the-task-diary.html >>
Maybe it's time after eight years that I wrote the article I was thinking of at the end of the comments section!