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Zoals ik al in mijn SMTN heb geschreven, ben ik gestopt met het technisch bijhouden van de site Frshdjs.com. Niet dat er zoveel aan onderhouden is het laatste jaar, maar de makers zijn van plan er wat meer mee te gaan doen en daar hoorde een update bij. Dat kan en wil ik niet meer extra doen bij mijn toch al drukke agenda. Dus zou ik deze ochtend een nieuw ontwerp omzetten naar HTML en CSS zodat ze met een weblog aan de slag kunnen. Maar helaas, zelfs dat is niet meer aan mij besteed. Niet zozeer het ontwerp, dat is niet zo lastig, maar om het om te zetten naar goede templates voor Pivot, met alle juiste stylesheets en spul. Daarom deze oproep namens ondergetekende en de frshdjs-clan: Wie o wie voelt zich geroepen om het nieuwe ontwerp van frshdjs.com om te zetten naar Pivot templates en de boel helemaal draaiend te maken op de nieuwe server? Reacties in de comments of rechtsreeks naar DJ Mark Green

I was browsing my feeds this evening, basically just chilling on the couch. I read a nice article on the weblog Face-to-Face about the new book of Malcolm Gladwell ‘Blink’. I was already curious about this book, because of his earlier book ‘The tipping point’ and I just got more curious. Because the book deals with decisions we make without thinking. And this got me thinking (no pun intended) about how this relates to Getting Things Done. Since GTD involves a lot of thinking sometimes (processing, reviewing, five phases of planning) I can imagine how you can change your mind while thinking about Next Actions. But is this the right decision then? I haven’t read the book yet, but as I read the editorial review, it seems you make the right decision in the first couple of seconds. So how does longer and more intense thinking about projects (What is the next physical action? How can I move this forward?) change this? Interesting thought. I should read the book first before I talk more about this I guess. Perhaps someone already read the book and has an opinion? I look forward to your comments.

Just a short note to let my readers know what’s going on in GTD-country over here. Some pretty interesting issues I might focus on in a later post. Here they are * As of today, I have converted 2 co-workers into reading the book, 1 co-worker (the CEO actually) to implement GTD in his professional work and 2 projectmanagers to be at least curious about this whole “Getting Things Done thingy”… Woohoo! * Which gives me more power and strength to implement and hold on to the principles here at work. Actually, conversations between me and my co-workers now focus more on Next Actions and physical appointments instead of vague to do lists. What a progress! * I now have two Moleskines. It gets worse! It’s an addiction! I have a large and a little one. The little one is for on the road. For small thoughts, Inbox-material etc. The large one has the destination to become more of a lifejournal. Now I need a life…;-) * We plan on using salesforce.com for our projects and sales-opportunities (and more). I foresee an issue with my @waiting for list in Outlook. Anyone have any experience on this topic? * My desk is empty! I planned two hours to clean up, made a dedicated In-basket, filled my filecabinet with manila-folders and projectfiles and started fresh. * Now I need to find the balance between have-to-do work that day and emergency-jobs that come in between. I find myself re-negotiating a lot of appointments with myself. One appointment I made with myself is to post more often. I see that visits and interest in this weblog has somewhat declined and I don’t like that! So I need to regain my audience again. Nice project!