Comments on: Thriving in the unexpected https://gettingthingsdone.com/2009/10/thriving-in-the-unexpected/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=thriving-in-the-unexpected David Allen's GTD® Methodology Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:05:20 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: Michael https://gettingthingsdone.com/2009/10/thriving-in-the-unexpected/#comment-1402 Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:05:20 +0000 http://www.gtdtimes.com/?p=2264#comment-1402 Andre,

My condolences! How are you, your Mum and Bro bearing up.

Your story is remarkable and bears remarkable parallels to the same bizarre occurances in my own. Only mine started 9 years ago.

I can use yours as a model to FINALLY recalibrate and move forward.

Fresh out of University, world is my oyster [albeit all i had was the knowledge and no experience and certainly not the tools to navigate the unexpected], I was awoken by a similar phone call (in context) from my kid sis.

“Plane is on its way {be on it on the return trip across the pond!} | Something terrible has happened, Dad’s gone”.

Quite frankly, that’s where the sense stops. Between then and now, it’s all been a haze. So many missed opportunities and so much guilt.

Ergo, your story was an aha moment for me. Started testing GTD system a while ago […but with my procrastination haven’t really rolled it out in my daily tasks]

However, seeing it in action [during what i like to call defcon 6 – the worst possible time] and how it ‘carried’ you in this dark time, i’m resolved to giving it my all. Best thing i will have ever done for myself, i reckon.

Hopefully, i haven’t burnt all the bridges. Nonetheless, with the GTD system and your witness to steer me when i get off track, i can make it now. To quote another mantra that is quite inspiring, ‘Yes we can!’

THANK YOU!

]]> By: Jinnie https://gettingthingsdone.com/2009/10/thriving-in-the-unexpected/#comment-1401 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:15:46 +0000 http://www.gtdtimes.com/?p=2264#comment-1401 Just wanted to send my condolences to you, Andre, and my thanks that you shared your story with such transparency. I’m glad that the GTD system and community has proven to be a support to you in such a sad and difficult time. I praise God that your father is at home with his heavenly Father! And also that he fulfilled his life’s wish of seeing the Holy Land, that is a wonderful blessing in this time of loss.

]]> By: Dean Johnson https://gettingthingsdone.com/2009/10/thriving-in-the-unexpected/#comment-1400 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 02:56:08 +0000 http://www.gtdtimes.com/?p=2264#comment-1400 Being proficient at GTD and having a certain amount of discipline in using it during “normal” times is all well and good, but it *really* matters when the fecal matter hits the cooling appliance. Having a relatively rigorous and fairly painless capture mechanism really shines when you are in what amounts to a panic mode, or atleast seems like it physiologically. Certainly things become easier when you aren’t accidentally dropping things and dealing with the consequences of doing so, on top of everything else you have to do.

]]> By: Randy Botti https://gettingthingsdone.com/2009/10/thriving-in-the-unexpected/#comment-1399 Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:06:19 +0000 http://www.gtdtimes.com/?p=2264#comment-1399 I use the Things app as my task manager and GCal for my hard landscape and Evernote for everything else, and when circumstances knock me off track I can still keep sending inputs to my tools and they are right where I put them when I resurface.
I have been using this system for the past few months during a very busy time which included one emergency trip and one vacation and I haven’t missed a thing (and my inbox and my brain are empty)

Thank you

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