Cult!

Posted by Katja on 20 November 2005 | Permalink
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I’ve been sucked into a cult, but I don’t know if it’ll stick.

At work they offered a Getting Things Done course. Suddenly people are walking around raving, yes, raving, about their inboxes being empty. They all have label makers on their desks. Their engineering notebook pages all have big Xes on them (for processed).

Since there was overhead money left in the budget, I took the class this Thursday and Friday. Then I went for a little surf around the internet, searching on “GTD” and whatever (Outlook, Gmail, web-based, etc). One of my primary goals was to figure out if this was a cult, and lo and behold, it is.

Somebody come in and pull me out if I get weird. On the other hand, my 400 email inbox is now down to 24, and I’ve finally learned some new things about Outlook tasks (which I had resisted learning, because I don’t want to use Outlook).

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4 Responses to “Cult!”

  1. Jeannette Randall on November 20th, 2005 17.19

    Funny… I could’ve sworn I remember reading about you having this same experience not that long ago. Maybe as much as a year?

  2. Katja on November 20th, 2005 17.23

    Really? Not this course, certainly, but resolving to get organized is right up there with resolving to lose weight, exercise regularly, and get a good night’s sleep.

    I’ll have to go hunting, now.

  3. Katja on November 20th, 2005 18.25

    Here it is: Blank Anxiety.

  4. Patricia Tryon on November 21st, 2005 12.16

    Scary.