{"id":61,"date":"2008-01-11T15:23:39","date_gmt":"2008-01-11T23:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/evanlenz.net\/blog\/2008\/01\/11\/committing-to-collecting\/"},"modified":"2008-01-11T15:25:25","modified_gmt":"2008-01-11T23:25:25","slug":"committing-to-collecting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evanlenz.net\/blog\/2008\/01\/11\/committing-to-collecting\/","title":{"rendered":"Committing to collecting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve read David Allen&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Getting_Things_Done\"><em>Getting Things Done<\/em><\/a> several times, and I&#8217;ve tried unsuccessfully several times to stick with it. For a while, I was interested in designing and tweaking my own geeky, low-tech system, and treating it like an engineering problem. Well, now I could care less about the system. All I want are the promised results. But I&#8217;m willing to make gradual changes, and I don&#8217;t expect everything to happen all at once. As wonderful as David makes it sound, I still haven&#8217;t gotten to that point of having 100% of everything into that proverbial trusted external system. I believe him that it makes a difference, but I have to content myself with an intermediate, incomplete system on my way there.<\/p>\n<p>Today, I&#8217;m reading through Leo Babauta&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/zenhabits.net\/2007\/11\/zen-to-done-the-simple-productivity-e-book\/\">&#8220;Zen to Done (ZTD)&#8221;<\/a> e-book. The key insight that he offers is that implementing GTD involves a series of habit changes, and attempts to change habits are much more successful when they&#8217;re tackled one at a time. So I&#8217;m hereby committing to developing the first of the 10 habits he lists: Collect. I&#8217;ve got a pocket-sized Moleskine in one pocket and a pen in the other pocket, so I have everything I need. The next time something pops into my head about something I need to do or some bill I need to pay, I&#8217;ll immediately offload it from my brain and into the notebook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve read David Allen&#8217;s Getting Things Done several times, and I&#8217;ve tried unsuccessfully several times to stick with it. For a while, I was interested in designing and tweaking my own geeky, low-tech system, and treating it like an engineering problem. Well, now I could care less about the system. All I want are the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evanlenz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evanlenz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evanlenz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evanlenz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evanlenz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/evanlenz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evanlenz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evanlenz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evanlenz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}