Special Super Resolution Surprise!

Okay….we’re more than two weeks into January and I’ve managed to keep all of my resolutions so far. That’s quite an achievement. Even the one about losing weight 🙂

A friend of mine seems to have kept a resolution to dump the Internet. I think that’s a bit extreme. The Internet is a perfect distraction for chronic procrastinators (you know, there’s always one more feed to read, one more video to watch on YouTube) but the problem is not the Internet but rather the forming of habits.

To achieve anything you need to focus.

i guess that’s why there’s so much attention given to GTD. There’s a lot of wisdom in that but it’s a common sense principle. It’s just about doing stuff when it appears as opposed to doing stuff when you think it needs done by. There’s more to it obviously otherwise it wouldn’t have gained the popularity it has. IT people have come to love it (and by extension it has a lot of popularity on the BlogoSphere) because IT folk are notoriously easily distracted. It’s not that they don’t remember, it’s just that like magpies, they are easily distracted by shiny things.

It’s a workflow.

I’m a procrastinator myself though I subscribe to the idea that there is good procrastination and bad procrastination. If you are putting off important work, it’s a good idea to be using that time to do less important work. Which is why I don’t mind my procrastination. It allows me to get lesser things done. These things NEED done at some point. So my workflow is ruled by the concept of “Do Something Now” which I’m going to call my “DSN” principle. If David Allen can have a three letter acronym, then so can I.

DSN rules!