Organize IT recap for 02nd June 2007

• This is a neat list of things you can do to make your offline life easier. While there isn’t anything on this list that will radically change your life, it does cover some interesting areas that people are prone to neglect.
• This is a fascinating article about why bad habits aren’t always so easy to break and it doesn’t always revolve around lack of motivation.
• 26 reasons what you think is right is wrong is another interesting article and further proof that we should always keep an open mind on matters.

It’s been a while since I did a links update so here it is. I come across interesting productivity and self-help sites on a regular basis so below are some of the site that stood out for me within the last two months:

• Unclutterer
• Getting (Some) Things Done
• HD BizBlog
• Gearfire
• Moleskinerie
• Matt’s Idea Blog
• Not Your Average Fitness Blog
• Did I Get Things Done?

Welcome to another post in my Clutter 101 series, and the second post focusing on dealing with individual rooms around the house. In this post I will focus on the bathroom. While most of the focus on this room typically revolves around keeping it clean and sparkling it is still important to look at all of your space issues, especially considering you will likely have towels, toilet rolls, toiletries, etc to find room for and keep organized.

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Review:

• To examine with an eye to criticism or correction.
• Going over a subject again in study so as to fix it in the memory.

The weekly review in GTD is one of the key elements, and also one of the hardest to implement efficiently. While most aspects of GTD are open to individual interpretation, the review is the one element that David Allen is clear on. Despite your best intentions, stuff always slips through. The review is the one definitive period in your week to catch up on these leaks and process them.

The weekly review also allows you to re-focus your mind on your system and keep it fresh. People take it for granted that they can implement an organizational system and it will just work. Normally, however, it becomes stale, out of date and eventually falls apart. The weekly review gets you focused and keeps the important things at the forefront of your mind.

What should you do in a weekly review? On a basic level you must process any loose paper, receipts, reference materials, etc then review your calender. You should also review all your next-actions lists, project lists, waiting on lists and someday/maybe lists. The ultimate purpose is to clear your mind and bring your GTD system up to date.

Thanks to the help of everybody at my local branch of Borats Anonymous, I was able to overcome my addiction. You can do it with the right support!