I’ve been utilizing David Allen’s Getting Things Done (GTD) work-life management principles for the last two years. The primarily philosophy of this system has to do with getting everything out of your mind and into a system that allows you to set actionable on all of your thoughts. It can be a pen and paper based system, or a digital device. A few weeks back I noticed that I could enter an email address in for a contact in my cell phone. After a few test I realized I could send a text message to any email address via my cell phone. {No I do not have an I Phone!}
So I created two contacts; one call “NOTES Work” and the other “NOTES Home”. I assigned each of them the corresponding email address. (Note you may need to assign a dummy phone number in order to be able to add the email address). Now when I’m “running around” and have one of my ADD brain blurbs, I can send myself a text and it will be waiting for me (in my email inbox) when I get back to my office. You can also use this system when others ask things of you. Stop trying to remember it all and send it on ahead, to yourself. Then when you get back in the office (or home) you’ll be reminded of it and can Get It Done. It’s kind-of like having virtual sticky notes.
