For a while now, I have been dealing with the uneasy feeling of not being able to get things done in a way and in a tempo that I used to be able to. I have started delegating more and more stuff, but am also very eager to help our engineers out when they encounter one of those not so easy to solve problems. Challenges is what our sales folks call them ;-)
Today is the day that I started to change my life. I have started to read David Allen's "Getting Things Done" after trying to find this one application that I could use to organize my work and tasks. During my quest for The Ultimate Tool, I noticed I needed to read the book first.
At the end of the Welcome chapter I realized I had started to read the right book, when seeing this quote for a "follower":
"When I habitually applied the tenets of this program it
saved my life . . . when I faithfully applied them, it changed my life.
This is a vaccination against day-to-day fire-fighting (the so-
called urgent and crisis demands of any given workday) and an
antidote for the imbalance many people bring upon themselves."
The feeling of day-to-day fire-fighting is so recognizable. As is the aforementioned imbalance. I just hope my life will be saved; and my life will be changed.
Life's what you make it. Yeah, life's what you make it; let's make it right!
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