The Buckets – GTD

19/04/20

In reading Getting Things Done a section that really stuck with me personally was the section about your buckets and how you decide what goes where and what needs to be done. It puts my current work or projects into categories such things as “projects lists, next actions, waiting for, and someday/maybe” just to name a few. I personally have taken this and done this a lot as of recent. Being at home in quarantine I’ve had lots of time to start many projects and quickly took on way more than I could handle. So I’ve implemented this system where I put these projects into categories, for me its what requires the most amount of work to the least amount of work. After this I look over what I would need for each project and put them into can complete or cannot complete at the moment. Then I get to work on some of the projects I can complete and work from there. This method has been the most used out of all the methods thus far. Not saying its the best, but for me personally it brings about the most use for me anyway. How I organize these things is actually done in two ways, most of my projects start on my phone with notes and sketches so a general organization of how much work the project will be is done in this stage then it either gets transported to a physical draft or my laptop for working on in depth. Here is where these get categorized into whether I have the tools to complete them or not and so on. Since reading and utilizing this concept I’ve been able to get quite a bit more projects off the ground as well as finish more and a much higher rate.