I’m half way through the ‘Get it done’ guy’s book and I find it a nice read. It has many of the age old GTD concepts (atleast) so far briskly packaged.
One concept that caught my eye was the concept of an ‘Action Day’. A simple application of an ‘Action Day’ in our lives could work in the following situation.
Situation:
A whole host of household tasks are piling up. Eg: head to the bank, buy this commodity from so-and-so supermart half an hour away, exchange a spoilt appliance, buy a new tech gadget.
Complication:
Given our busy lives from Monday to Friday and (often) busier weekends, it’s just extremely hard to find time to do these things.
Solution:
1) Schedule an action day (eg: last saturday of the month) i.e. batch all the annoying errands to this one day
2) Get 2-3 friends on board so you don’t feel alone. Maybe they have their own action days or maybe they play your ‘boss’ so you report to them every 2-3 hours to report progress.
3) And make sure you either have a nice incentive or a strong consequence – whichever makes you happy. From personal experience, the consequence works better but hey, that’s up to you..
This could, of course, apply to other tasks that we have been procrastinating for a long time (Eg: read THAT book, read THAT research paper, work on THAT report etc).
In short, pick a date, get a friend on board and have fun banishing THAT task out of your life!
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Nice concept I thought. I’m looking forward to applying it..
A Learning a Day 