Getting things done

I’m really impressed with the Getting Things Done system. I haven’t figured out a way to make it work for reals in my life yet – but I’m trying to get into the swing of things.

I’m curious if anyone has any insight on this. I started a new job in December for the DCCCD. As part of my job there are e-mails flying from every which direction about all sorts of curriculum based/catalog issues. As I’m learning my job I’m trying to process a lot of these emails but I also know that many of these things really don’t have a lot to do with me (or maybe they do and I just don’t realize it yet). I was fairly successful at keeping my e-mail inbox at 0 in my previous jobs but I’m not doing as well here.

We also use Novell GroupWise (argh!) and it stores all the messages on the server – so even if I moved e-mails to other folders to get them out of the way – apparently they’re still saved on the servers and IT doesn’t like all those e-mails clogging up the system.

UPDATE: Forgot to add that we tend to print almost all emails for record keeping – especially when it comes to any changes to the catalog and curriculm.
Any thoughts or helpful tidbits?

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Jonathan Blundell

I'm a husband, father of three, blogger, podcaster, author and media geek who is hoping to live a simple life and follow The Way.

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